Inspirational Quotes - Page 18

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Some people may complicate it for you, but the formula is simple: Love God more than anything else. More than your ego. More than your money. More than your desires...More than your sleep at dawn. Love God more than anything else, and submission comes natural. Love God more than anything else, and all goodness will follow.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

If you want to shine like sun, first you have to burn like it.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.