Inspiration Quotes - Page 98

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

One common mistake is to think that one reality is the reality. You must always be prepared to leave one reality for a greater one.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Food is not evil, but gluttony is. Childbearing is not evil, but fornication is. Money is not evil, but avarice is. Glory is not evil, but vainglory is. Indeed, there is no evil in existing things, but only in their misuse.

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.

Have confidence in who you are and don’t be afraid to go for what you really want in life.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.