Inspiration Quotes - Page 183

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

All you need is love.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

How can we know ourselves by ourselves? . . . Soul needs intimate connection, not only to individuate, but simply to live. For this we need relationships of the profoundest kind through which we can realize ourselves, where self-revelation is possible, where interest in and love for soul is paramount.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

When you say Yes to God unconditionally, you have no idea how far this Yes is going to take you. Certainly farther than you can guess and calculate beforehand... but just how far and in what form? At the same time, this Yes is the sole, non-negotiable prerequisite of all Christian understanding, of all theology and ecclesial wisdom.

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.