Inspirational Quotes - Page 273

It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth.

How beautiful it will be if your heart grows only the flowers of love and kindness.

Occasionally all you need is a minute of courage to break into a world of opportunity.

If you're struggling uphill; carrying your heavy load; fighting to stay afloat or battling your demons, know that you are definitely on the right path, and ascending to the place where you will one day embody the legend you seek to become.

Love is the ultimate Wonder lamp, anything you touch with love become gold.

Who we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might really hate who you actually are, so then you create a sub-genus type of yourself for other people to see. But that never changes who you are. The sub-genus type won't change your genus. The only way we change who we are is by looking at ourselves in the mirror long enough to make us vomit over our disgusting waywardness and long enough to fall in love with our strengths. But you can't just fall in love with your strengths. You also need to vomit over your hypocrisies and all of your other bullshit. And you can't just vomit, either. You also have to clean it up and embrace yourself afterwards. This is how you change your genus.

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

Improvement is not enough, you also need innovation.

Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times.

You are a lesson to your own life. You just need to turn the page.

When you are busy with living your life, age can never find you to make her mark.

No matter what the cause, God is only as willing as you are.

To them, eternal life beginsAnd God Himself shall wipe away all tears.

Happiness is ours for the taking and take it we must without any apologies. We deserve to be happy, loved, and respected......nothing less.

Oh! You are a woman! You are the pure reflection of my mother, sister, and daughter. I can never hurt you.

Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.

How beautiful a woman can be if kindness is her true beauty.

The power and magnetic pull of your vision is hinged on the purpose and passion behind it and, most importantly, the intent.

Your value is based on how much and how deeply you can love others without any expectations of a return.

We can make the dream come true

I'm not saying that suffering is our fault. I believe we suffer because sin has taken hold of the world. And with sin comes selfishness and heartlessness and wickedness. But I also think there will be a day of reckoning, Nick, when God lays out all we've done and judges our actions. That's not as popular to talk about anymore, I suppose. We all like to hear about a God who loves and forgives rewards. But He isn't holy and just if He doesn't deal with all those wrongs. I would never want to stand before God without having done everything in my power to extend His mercy to the people around me whenever I could.

If you want to get wealth, focus on wealth. If you want happiness, focus on happiness.

Your sacred time is now! Begin to live passionately.

Let us trust the power of love.

Give one of your smiles, its costs nothing… but enrich others life to dream more.

In the perspective of our species, life has favored humanity as a whole by promoting as much wealth of variety and options as possible, and has distributed everything using the four winds. Life has given mankind everything it has, without segregation and without consideration of which characteristic or quality best suits the situations or the periods. Only by having the totality of human characteristics and options can we hope to deal with all periods to come.Our collective is our key to survival and well-being.

The epiphany in this thought is that we simply cannot and do not create in isolation. As I paint my blank canvas others leave their mark on my masterpiece. Many have added colors and textures I knew not existed, greatly improving my creation..and yet...and yet... There are those who have punctured the fine leather and scraped at the rainbows of my mind ... creating stormy patches where there were once colors beaming from the page.

To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light

Even if you are strange, you may not be able to deny that we all live in the same home that we call Earth. So let us love her.

One day in my shoes and a day for me in your shoes, the beauty of travel lies in the ease and willingness to be more open.

Life is a creation, not a discovery

Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.

The difference between what you expect and what you get is the problem.

The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!

Peace can only survive when fed peace.

Be kind to all and rude to no one.

Do not let the day end without you asking yourself one great question. So many things do question our thoughts. Questions of all forms and from all spheres of life do bother us. Sometimes, questions are the best answers to questions. When you ponder over a question, ask another question which will questing the question. Mostly, the best answers to questions are the best questions. Questions that questing the questions rightly give the right answers. Remember, never a day without a great question!

Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous to be who you are!

. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.

Kindness in your dealings with yourself and others will work wonders in your life. Much more so than rightness in your thinking.

There’s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. That’s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what they’re doing, you say ‘wow,’ and soon you’re cooking up all sorts of ideas.

I choose my reality. My vision and actions create my life. I am an amazing reality creator.

OHHHH don’t make me cry, I’m a big strong guy, I can make you laugh and I’d never tell a lie, See my muscles on my legs when I swim, I can do back spins with the force of my fins. SOOOOO don’t make me cry, I’m a big strong guy, I can make you laugh and I’d never tell lie. The muscles in my heart are tougher than my shell, To “love” makes me stronger than to lift a barbell.”Willard the Sea Turtle, The Little People Journey into the Mystic Sea

When everything seems hopeless, turn your mind toward the three people who mean most to you in this world. Think about what you must mean to them, and from those thoughts of those three people will stem all the hope and meaning you’ll need to fight through.

It’s true that many overly negative people actually fear letting go of their negativity, and it’s because it has become a part of their identity. If this is the case, make it a smoother transition by releasing and replacing one negative opinion at a time. It certainly is an identity shift, but it’s one that brings greater fulfillment and life satisfaction.

Getting ink felt right, like it would help her put her life in order, to move forwards. It was her body, despite the things that'd been done to it, and she wanted to claim it, to own it, to prove that to herself. She knew it wasn't magic, but the idea of writing her own identity felt like the closest she could get to reclaiming her life. Sometimes there's power in the act; sometimes there's strength in words. She wanted to find an image that represented those things she was feeling, to etch it on her skin as tangible proof of her decision to change.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don’t usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.

I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.

I wear my past around my shoulders as a fine, but worn, cloak. Don't be fooled by my cloak's appearance, I have a three piece underneath.

You cannot function in an unction you don't take action on.

The sky has a huge heart open for all clouds even on the gloomiest of days.

Teaching is not only a profession, but it a is a purpose of a great life.

Love fills the infinite.

You can buy knowledge but not wisdom.

A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.

You perform as well as you believe yourself capable of performing. You are as effective as you believe yourself to be in whatever you do. You can never be better or different on the outside than you believe yourself to be on the inside.

Good mentors and coaches will help you reach your destination faster than you can by yourself.

I have heard several people justify working long hours and getting home from work late it night by saying things like, “I have to put in all this time to make up for the vacation we’re going to take this summer.” I bet if I asked your kids, they’d say that they’d rather have you home every night to play with them than the weeklong summer trip to the lake where you’re stressed out the whole time anyways.