Inspiration Quotes - Page 149

The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all it's citizens deserves the help of all the nation.