Inspiration Quotes - Page 193

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a hula hoop from the earth's hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our 80th anniversary or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill. But whatever, however, whenever this ends I want you to know that right now, I love you forever.

Nothing happens until something moves.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.

Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here.

There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.

There's good in everybody. Boost. Don't knock.

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor. If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Rich people play the money game to win. Poor people play the money game to not lose.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.