Inspiration Quotes - Page 203

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

I always try to attack. While I'm on the offensive, my opponent can think of nothing but defending.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

Work is love made visible.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

I'm a man who believes that right is right and wrong is wrong. Treat me right, and I will give you my all. Treat me wrong, and I will give you nothing. They don't like me for that, but that's the way I am.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

When it's all said and done, you may go through the fire, through the flood, through the famine, but you'll come out standing strong.

You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.

What I consider to be peace [is] a sustainable peace in which the majority of people on this planet have access to enough resources to live dignified lives.

If you just communicate, you can get by. But if you communicate skillfully, you can work miracles.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.

There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.