Inspiring Quotes - Page 75

You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and they are there.

I try to sign for as many kids as possible. Kids come first, and I'll always sign for a kid before an adult.

Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?

If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is ten percent what happens to me and ninety percent of how I react to it. And so it is with you. we are in charge of our attitudes.

It's not about 'what can I accomplish?' but 'what do I want to accomplish?' Paradigm shift.

The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.

The art of love is largely the art of persistence.

There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.

Do not put off today's work for tomorrow.

Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.

Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death.

If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.

"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

When your intentions are very pure and clear, nature brings support to you.

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything but they make the most of everything.

I'm an artist. Gardening is my graffiti. I grow my art. I use the garden soil like it's a piece of cloth, and the plants and the trees, that's my embellishment for that cloth. You'd be surprised what the soil can do if you let it be your canvas.