Inspirational Quotes
Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.
There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.
When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.
Who a person is will ultimately determine if their brains, talents, competencies, energy, effort, deal-making abilities, and opportunities will succeed.
Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.
There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.
Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.
Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.
What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.
Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever
Action isn’t my forte. I’m an expert on contemplation and mild regret.
the depth of a person's character is not measured by his or her physical strength, but by the depth of his or her nobility.
That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.
Have Fun Storming the Castle!
The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.
With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.
He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.
Difficulties are what makes it honorable and interesting to be alive.
Without close and reciprocal relationships with other animal beings, we're alienated from the rich, diverse, and magnificent world in which we live.
If you can learn to motivate yourself, you can always tap into an abundance of energy that will drive you to the success you dream of.
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.
I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.
Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.
After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.
We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.
We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.
You can know all there is to know about life and mankind, but what do you really know about yourself?