Inspiration Quotes - Page 154

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.

Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.

When a child makes a mistake or fails to accomplish a certain goal, we must avoid any word or action which indicates that we consider him a failure. 'Too bad that didn't work.' 'I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.' We need to separate the deed from the doer.

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots.

People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love and intelligence; to accomplish the Great Work there must be three love, intelligence, and activity. And yet love is ever the root and the source.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.