Enthusiasm Quotes

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends

I place my trust in You, O adorable Blood, our Redemption, our regeneration. Fall, drop by drop, into the hearts that have wandered from You and soften their hardness.

How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

For others, in spite of myself, from myself.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Don't set your goals too low. If you don't need much, you won't become much.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

The objects of the present life fill the human eye with a false magnification because of their immediacy.

I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

If you can't enjoy what you have, you can't enjoy more of it.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.