Inspiration Quotes - Page 70

That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome.

Everything is hard before it is easy.

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that inspired Bach and Beethoven, the architecture of painting that is inspiring Picasso as it inspired Velasquez, that it is the architecture of life itself that is the inspiration of the great poets and philosophers.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.

Since the tapestry of all time has already been woven, everything I could ever want to happen in my life already exists in that infinite, nonphysical plane. My only task is to expand my earthly self enough to let it into this realm. So if there's something I desire, the idea isn't to go out and get it, but to expand my own consciousness to allow universal energy to bring it into my reality here.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.

‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.