Inspiring Quotes - Page 45

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don't have a job? Get one. Any job. Don't sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment.

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Act as if you are, and you will become such.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

A holy life will produce the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make a world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world.

Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.