Inspiration Quotes - Page 204

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.

I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Remember you belong to nature, not it to you.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.