Inspiring Quotes - Page 107

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

Heaven comes to people - and their loved ones - when they are dying. It is not uncommon for angels to appear when people are on the edge of death, and people who have had near-death experiences often describe feelings of indescribable peace - Angels.

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Art is eternal, but life is short.

A critical issue for women is the possibility to be a mother and the ability to participate fully in the workforce.

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.

We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.

Getters don't get - givers get.

The only safe thing is to take a chance.

The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.

The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.

Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

It's the job that I take most seriously in my life and I think it's the hardest job.

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

No one can manage you if you don't give them permission to do so. But if you are interested in accomplishing as much as you are capable of, then I believe there are good reasons to grant that permission.

The noble path does win but only if you are prepared to make the investment over a long period of time.

When I did make the decision to focus on acting, I think my mother was just relieved for me that I had finally started to focus.

Have a vision. Be demanding.

You appear in the Novelletten in every possible circumstance, in every irresistible form... They could only be written by one who knows such eyes as yours and has touched such lips as yours.

No place is ever as bad as they tell you it's going to be.

Who can ever measure the benefit of a mother's inspiration?

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

I used to be called 'a Mexican guy who can walk a pack of dogs.' Now the world calls me 'The Dog Whisperer'.