Inspiration Quotes - Page 190

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest. Always do what you are afraid to do.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

My mental boundaries expanded when I viewed the Earth against a black and uninviting vacuum, yet my country's rich traditions had conditioned me to look beyond man-made boundaries and prejudices. One does not have to undertake a space flight to come by this feeling.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepperd. I am lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny. I will persist until I succeed.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

I remixed a remix, it was back to normal.

Best things in life aren't things.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed?

There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing to do with seeking enlightenment. You see, that is the only way to achieve enlightenment; by not focusing on achieving it. Then, one day it will just come to you.

Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

One of the things I like about my profession, and that I find healthy, is that one constantly has to break oneself to pieces.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

It is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. ... Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition.