Inspirational Quotes

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.

I would tell players to relax and never think about what's at stake. Just think about the basketball game. If you start to think about who is going to win the championship, you've lost your focus.

A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

In this world, there is no clarity. There is only love and action.

Life is a promise; fulfill it.

To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.

A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.

Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer.

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.

Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

If what you're doing isn't working, change it.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

What you should want from life is an arena big enough to express your talents and gifts.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

The best of times is now.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

The movement of life has its rest in its own music.

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

A little foolishness, enough 2 enjoy life, & a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do

Laughing, how can you fall asleep? It brings a state of no-mind and no-thought, and does not allow you to fall asleep.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.