Inspiration Quotes - Page 164

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me. I study them. I devour them with fury.

Make me an instrument of thy peace.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.

When the need to succeed is as bad as the need to breathe, then you'll be successful.

You were born to achieve, to release your inner power, to fulfill your uniqueness.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.