Inspirational corner

I absolutely love words which stir my soul and inspire me to be more.  Here I will continue to compile my list – someday, I will organize them so they are easier to search through and read.  For now, relax and enjoy.

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” <Radmacher>

 

 Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. <Mark Twain>

 

Enjoy the Journey for it is truly the reward! Live in the unexpectedness of the unknown for that uncertainty creates the magic we all seek. <pam smith>

 

We don’t see things as they are; we see them as ‘we’ are. <Anais Nin>

 

I am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live up to what light I have. <Abraham Lincoln>

 

No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities. It’s a shame to waste those by doing what someone else has done. <Joseph Campbell>

 

“It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters” <Aesop>

 

“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.” <Hindu Prince Gautama Siddhartha>

 

“We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.” <Carl Gustav Jung>

 

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.”  <Indira Gandhi>

 

Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive. Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they will become your blessings!! <pam smith>

 

“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” <Joseph Campbell>

 

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ~David Carradine

 

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together…there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you”. <Christopher Robin to Pooh>

 

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. <Van der Post>

 

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. <Waitley>

 

TO DREAM OF THE PERSON YOU’D LIKE TO BE, IS A WASTE OF THE PERSON YOU ARE!! <unknown>

 

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. <Horace Walpole> 

 

“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man’s life a sorrow and a suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” <Henry Longfellow>

 

Knowing others is intelligence. Knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich. If you stay in the center and embrace death with your whole heart, you will endure forever. <Tao>

 

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest. <Ikeda>

 

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.” <Mark Twain>

 

Every man dies. Not every man really lives  <William Wallace – Braveheart>

 

 

 Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with Spirit and with eternity. < Paul Coelho – The Alchemist>

 

What I’ve discovered on this long road – is there’s always something to celebrate, no matter how ordinary! <Pam Smith>

 

We learn wisdom from failure, much more than success; he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. <Samuel Smiles>

 

“Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.” <Dali Lama>

 

Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world. <Gandhi>

 

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. <Gandhi>

 

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. <Dr. Suess>

 

 Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. <Dr. Suess>

 

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it It’s too bad that you want to be someone else You don’t see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours. <Rumi, 13th Century poet>

 I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. <Joseph Campbell>

 

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the Universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. <Max Ehrmann>

 

Give me a few friends who will love me for what I am; and keep ever burning before my vagrant steps the kindly light of hope. <Max Ehrmann>

 

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” <Ralph Waldo Emerson>