I find inspirational quotes
to be one of best sources for feeding the spirit, which for me is an
essential component of a holistic life style. I've been
collecting them for years. On this page I share with you some of
my favorites.
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"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to
soar." ~Helen Keller
"Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the
way down." ~Kobi Yamada
"Always be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version
of someone else."
~Judy Garland
"Defeat only happens when you make the decision to stop trying. Because
determination works. Steady forward motion, even if it's just a step
per week, gets you there. So keep moving, even if it's only a little
some weeks. ~Ken Evoy- Sitesell.com
"Nothing happens until something moves." ~Albert Einstein
"Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." ~Calvin
Coolidge
"How to succeed? Try hard enough." ~ Malcolm Forbes
"The important thing is that when you come to understand something you
act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will
take you where you need to go." ~Helen Prejean
"Be who you are and say what you feel because people who mind don't
matter and people who matter don't mind." ~Unknown
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that
take our breath." ~Unknown
"Those who touch our lives live forever in our hearts." ~Unknown
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." ~Mahatma
Gandhi
"I go into the wilderness and rediscover the world within."
~China Galland
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already
full." ~ Henry Kissinger
"It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick
society." ~J. Krishnamurti
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll never get more than
what you've already got."
~Unknown
"Love is staying up all night with a sick child -- or a healthy
adult." ~David Frost ~
"Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live."
~Jim Rohn
"When you throw your bread out on the waters of life, it frequently
comes back buttered."
~Mershon Niesner
"It takes courage to follow your fascinations, wherever they may lead.
Yet, creativity demands that you trust and stay on the path despite
obstacles. The good news is that it's possible."
~ Gail McMeekin,
"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art." ~ Carrie
Fisher
"All things being relative, one searches for what they cannot
find." ~D. Bartosik
"It’s not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are
accountable."
~Unknown
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not
stop." ~Confucius
"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The
saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have,
might have, and should have."
~ Louis E. Boone
"A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows the corners."
~Unknown
"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the
courage to start."
~Unknown
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift, that's
why we call it the "present".
Enjoy your "present" of life to the fullest." ~Unknown
"Whatever the struggle, continue the climb, it may be only one more
step to the summit."
~Diane Westlake
"First get the facts, then you can distort them at your leisure."
~Mark Twain
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming
gardeners who make our souls blossom." ~Marcel Proust
"Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food." ~Hippocrates
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally
astound ourselves."
~ Thomas A.Edison
"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it."
~Robert Heinlein
"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise"
~W.B. Yeats
"Only that which is deeply felt can change us. Because it is only in
the heart that anything really happens." ~Ladyfire.com
"I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have
taken the fire department four days to put it out." ~Dolly Parton
"Don't just slow down and smell the flowers, look up and see the birds,
too!"
~Deborah Burns, Simple Living Winter 2000
"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do
and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." ~Dale
Carnegie
"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the
stairs... one step at a time."
~Joe Girard
"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the
joy." ~Jim Rohn
"A quotation at the right moment is like bread for the famished."
The Talmud
"In Everyones life ,at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is
then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the spirit."
~Albert Schweister
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain
two."
~Eric Fromm
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time
we fall."
~Confucius
"Try to be the sort of person your dog thinks you are." ~Jerry
Parkins
"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
~Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just
because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten
lost." ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You
have to catch it yourself."
~Ben Franklin
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they
find laughable."
~Anon.
"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."
~Aldous Huxley
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
~Oscar Wilde
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"Sometimes the insane and the contrarians and the ones who are closest
to suicide are the most valuable people society has. They may be
precursors of social change. They've taken the burdens of the culture
onto themselves, and in their struggle to solve their own problems
they're solving problems for the culture as well." ~Robert M.
Pirsig, Lila
"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true." ~Francis
Bacon
"Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few." ~George
Berkeley
"The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for
the truth,' and so it goes away."
~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the
instrument as one goes on."
~Samuel Butler
"A man who has nothing can whistle in a robbers face."
~Juvenal, Satires
"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."
~Sören Kierkegaard, Life
"Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"The important thing is not to stop questioning." ~Albert Einstein
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his
patients in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and
prevention of disease". ~Thomas Edison.
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even
touched. They must be felt with the heart." ~Helen Keller
"Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things."
~Monet
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." ~Walt Disney
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
~Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
~Confucius
"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can
on it." ~Danny Kaye
"Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you
a fortune." ~Jim Rohn
"You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the
greatest quality of the mind next to honor. ~James Allen
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. ~Winston
Churchill
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the
rain." ~Dolly Parton
"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it
alive." ~Elbert Hubbard
"The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself
away." ~Charles Schwab
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no
birds sang except those that sang best." ~Henry Van Dyke
"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why
it as it is and why it exists as all." ~Stephen Hawking
~Courage is the mastery of fear, not the absence of fear." ~Mark
Twain
"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original
dimensions. "
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most
deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which
says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude,
follow it." ~William James
"Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a
wise man from trying.
~Harry Anderson, "Night Court"
"[about the past] ...the way I see it, you can either run from it, or
learn from it."
~Rafikki to Simba in Disney's The Lion King
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through my
experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened,
ambition inspired, and success achieved." ~Helen Keller
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically
thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most
gigantic idiot on earth. So, what the hell, leap." ~Cynthia Heimel
"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight-it's
the size of the fight in the dog." ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's
what sunflowers do." ~Helen Keller
"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back
up." ~Vince Lombardi
"The longest journey of any person is the journey inward." ~Dag
Hammerskjvld
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
~James Dean
"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely."
~The Land Before Time
"Even from a dark night songs of beauty can be born." ~Maryanne
Radmacher-Hershey
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could
make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you
waiting?" ~Stephen Levine
"The soul has an absolute, unforgiving need for regular excursions into
enchantment. It requires them like the body needs food and the
mind needs thought."
~Thomas Moore's The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life as quoted by Susan
Chernak McElroy in Animals as Guides for the Soul
"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of
literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in
fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating
himself."
~Eleanor Roosevelt
"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And
love like you've never been hurt." ~Mark Twain
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink
what you don't like and do what you'd druther not." ~Mark
Twain
"When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my
father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how
much he had learned in the last seven years." ~Mark
Twain
"He is richest who is content with the least."
~Socrates
"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
~AlbertEinstein
"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
~Robert F. Kennedy
"To Thine own self be true." ~Shakespeark-Hamlet
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go, others stay for
awhile, leaving foot-prints on our hearts and we are never quite the
same" ~Flavia Weedn
"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is
understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make
life a garden." ~Goethe
"People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow
knows how to swim." ~Ann Landers
"That which doesn't kill me, makes me stronger" ~Fredrich
Nietzchen
"Love carries within itself the seed of tragedy." ~Roman Polanski
"Cats capture our heart, soothe our soul, and try our patience to the
point of insanity." ~Lori Lee
Learning is not whether we lose the game,
But how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it
And what we take away from it that we never had before,to apply to
other games.
Losing in a curious way, is winning.
~Richard Bach
"With awareness you give yourself the gift of an opening for growth and
change.
Do not criticize yourself because in darkness you could not see.
When you find the light within you, you will know that you have always
been in the center of wisdom. As you probe deeper into who you
really are, with your lightedness
and your confusion, with you angers, longings and distortions, you will
find
the true living God.
Then you will say: I have known you all of my life and I have
called you by many different names. I have called you mother and
father and child. I have
Called you lover. I have called you sun and flowers. I have
called you my heart.
But I never until this moment, called you myself."
~Emmanuels Book
"May the sun bring you new energies by day
May the moon softly restore you by night
May the rain wash away any worries you may have
And the breeze blow new strength into your being…..
And then all the days of your life may you walk gently
Through the world and know its beauty"
~Author Unknown)
"The heart is wiser than the intellect." ~J.G. Holland
"It is not length of life, but depth of life." ~Ralph Waldo
Emerson
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by
people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at
all." ~Dale Carnegie
"How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses
shows all of it." ~Unknown
"Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all."
~Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more
deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that
person is not to be found anywhere. you yourself, as much as anybody in
the entire universe deserve your love and affection." ~Buddha
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it.
If you don’t ask, the answers always no.
If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
~Nora Roberts
"Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace,
inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a
companion." ~Lorraine Anderson
"Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each
day as the last."
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do
than for the things I shouldn't have done." ~Malcolm Forbes
"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling
blocks." ~Jack Penn
"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions; by going off
the main road; by trying the untried." ~Frank Tyger
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of
fear." ~Mark Twain
"A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner." ~English proverb
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the
dickens underneath."
~Michael Caine
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the
stars." ~Les Brown
"A man is a success if he get up in the morning and does what he wants
to do." ~Bob Dylan
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's
too dark to read."
~Groucho Marx
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we
cannot live within."
~James Baldwin
"I was drowning my sorrows, but my sorrows, they learned to swim."
~U2, Until The End Of The World
"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if
you're alive, it isn't."
~Richard Bach
"An ugly carpet will last forever." ~Erma Bombeck
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
~James Dean
"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to
us." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has
come." ~Victor Hugo
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in
which you really stop to look fear in the face." ~Eleanor
Roosevelt
"I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of
talking." ~The Scarecrow, Wizard of Oz
"In youth we learn; in age we understand." ~Maria Ebner-Eschenbach
"One of the challenges of our lives is to integrate the pieces of our
lives as we live them. It is sometimes tempting to try to deny
huge periods of our lives or forget significant events, especially if
they have been painful. To try to erase our past is to rob
ourselves of our hard-earned wisdom.
~Anne Wilson Schaef
"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is
resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on
it." ~John Steinbeck
"Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
~Benjamin Franklin
"A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature." ~Jean
Giraudoux
"The old law of an eye for an eye leaves us all blind." ~Ghandi
"Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are
moving."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"When it is time to die, let us not discover that we have never
lived." ~Henry David Thoreau
"Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be." ~Malcolm
Forbes
""Speak to the dog in language of the dog about what matters to the
heart of the dog."
~Bryan & Jeff Eisenberg, Call To Action
"The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different
question."
~Bruce Mau, An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
“As our lives intertwine with the ebb and flow of the tide, we take one
step closer to enlightenment.” ~ ~Richard Alcock
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