Inspiring Quotes - Page 58

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history - he is one who can accomplish things.

Uniqueness does not come from external things that people do to themselves or other things like what they wear. All the uniqueness that radiates to the world comes from how you deal with the world, your best inner strengths. It never comes from a tattoo or a designer outfit.

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

I'm not okay, you're not okay, and that's okay.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

Breath is the king of mind.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Autumn's the mellow time.

The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.