Inspiration Quotes - Page 165

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed.

If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality.

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

You may delay, but time will not.

Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

You are what you think about all day.

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours