Inspirational Quotes

Take a nap Making the mountain water Pound the rice.

His soul was bigger than a body's ought to be.

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.

I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.

Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.

It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Think: what do you work at?

I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy.

Find something good within your life and give every ounce of positivity you have towards it, then watch how your life changes.

Customer service is just a day-in, day-out ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate, type of activity.

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.

I’m terrified of heights, but I think there’s something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird’s-eye view of the world.

To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

Luck favors the mind that is prepared.

Today I don't have to fit into anyone else's emotional atmosphere.

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

You can live constrained within the confines of a solely material perspective, or choose instead the infinite field of quantum possibility.

If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Don't think it, ink it.

You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes."

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

So when Jesus says "Love your enemies," he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition.

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

Meet your fears with faith.

Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth to them who have believed the slander.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

I am what I wanted and I want what I am.

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.