Inspirational Quotes - Page 21

Our destinies are riddled with challenges that have a tendency to ruin well laid plans. Many have attempted to take fate into their own hands and have been unsuccessful in changing it.Others find that their paths differ from what they have dreamed for themselves. We must be aware that our choices may come back to haunt us later in life, but to trust that is is all part of fate's desing.

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

If you fear to take risks, your life will always be risky.

A new baby is a bundle of hope, a smiling imagination, and a dancing dreams.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence

I had gotten so used to the taste of rain that I forgot what the sun tasted like. Bittersweet.

The problem about cutting out the best of your heart and giving it to people, is that 1. It hurts to do that; and 2. You never know if they are going to throw it away or not. But then you should still do it. Because any other way is cowardice. At the end of the day, it's about being brave and we are only haunted by the ghosts that we trap within ourselves; we are not haunted by the ghosts that we let out. We are haunted by the ghosts that we cover and hide. So you let those ghosts out in that best piece of your heart that you give to someone. And if the other person throws it away? Or doesn't want it to begin with? Someone else will come along one day, cut out from his/her heart that exact same jagged shape that you cut out of your own heart, and make their piece of heart fit into the rest of yours. Wait for that person. And you can fill their missing piece with your soul.

Dreams do come true, but first you must dream.

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive.

Wake up! Wake up! Soon the person you believe you are will die - so now, wake up and be content with this knowledge: there is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all ONE, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor, and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life; just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are for more than you imagine. you are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free!

Believe yourself again and again to find yourself.

And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.

Never back, never back!... People don’t like going back, even if they must. I don’t like going back! And I’m not people! But I look back, sometimes, every so often, just to make sure I’m not leaving anything important behind. Like my tail! I can never be sure when I leave my tail behind me by mistake.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

My advice for those of you who felt being marginalised, undervalued and taken for granted; guess what? That is the Arena where God creates Leaders.

Perfection is an opinion not a fact.

Faith...your hope in the unseenYou can't touch itYou can't see itYou can't smell itYou can't hear itYou can't taste itYou can't live without itO the weightless burden of faithKeeps us at our Father's feetPleadingly whispering... Abba, Abba, Abba...

The Holy Scripture reveals spiritual realities.

Love with your heart, not with your mind, mind is judgmental, but heart is not.

Remind yourself of how awesome you are by celebrating your experiences and moments.

If we look at the happiest, most successful people and companies, they're those that have a positive attitude about continuously improving. It's growth. It's something new. It's an adventure.

If your actions are combined with proper planning and perseverance, there are no heights you cannot attain.

The success equation is complete only when achievement, fulfilment and lifestyle are present.

I am no feminist. Even though the term "feminism" is founded upon the basic principle of gender equality, it possesses its own fundamental gender bias, which makes it inclined towards the wellbeing of women, over the wellbeing of the whole society. And if history has shown anything, it is that such fundamental biases in time corrupt even the most glorious ideas and give birth to prejudice, bigotry and differentiation.

It is simply a confession that with all that I've seen in the last few years, all the events I've been invited to, and all the people whom I've met, I am less and less impressed by "impressive" things or people who are presented as having things figured out. I am impressed by people who are honest and kind. I am inspired by moments of vulnerability, moments of confession and compassion, moments where someone makes it clear that they are a person in need of other people and someone else makes it clear that the first person is not alone.

I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something.

To overcome the sadness of our hearts, we must remember the joys of our lives.

Decision and choices define life.

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.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

Both sadness and anger are the two sides of same coin. Sadness is supressed anger, while anger is expressed sadness. Both sadness and anger are state of unhappiness, which are often because lack of self-love.

Propaganda is what gives us the freedom to do as we are told.

When you look closely to the path you have travel on, you will realise that God was always with you, directing every step you took.

If you want to be a writer, write a little bit every day. Pay attention to the world around you. Stories are hiding, waiting everywhere. You just have to open your eyes and your heart.

If we pray, we will be purified.

Poor are those who have eyes but cannot see... ☥

For the soul-wounded woman. Your healed voice is my favorite sound. Your hurts, they walk right into our hearts; but your story of healing --- that can change lives. Never be afraid to find and use your voice.

A moment of anger is a moment of resentment and madness which can burn your heart.

I believe i am hard as a stone, but even a stone breaks if you smash it real hard.....

Love is a funny business. It cannot be commanded but it commands us; it commands respect and unselfishness. Love cannot be sucked out of another in the hopes that it fills us up, because love is not a selfish quest.

A man who tosses worms in the river isn’t 't necessarily a friend of the fish. All the fish who take him for a friend, who think the worm’s got no hook in it, usually end up in the frying pan.

When we get married, we promise a person the rest of our lives, "Til death do us part". But what if in another life we promised someone forever? What if ten lifetimes ago we promised someone lifetime after lifetime after lifetime? Think about it. Maybe that's why marriages fail when they do fail. Because maybe promises are never really broken.

I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.

Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.

A miracle is when you take action on your written goal, and work hard to create it. Transform your dreams into reality, by writing your goals, taking action and making them happen. This is the short recipe for top success.

I love books because I don't have to wait for the commercials to be over to find out what happens.

The ultimate success of a life depends on character and not on achievement.

Philosophy, in its simplest form, is the exploration of the beauty and ugliness of life.

Nothing but education defines the future of a person and the future of a nation.

It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.

Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.

If a pleasure lasts forever, it isn’t a pleasure anymore.

... one can't live without falling now and again.

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

Have WILD imaginings and then ask for ALL of them!

If kindness isn't your strong suit, then you need to change clothes.

Your words reveal your wants but your actions reveal your expectations.

When we truly care, we mix love, compassion, and kindness together in our hearts.

You haven't learned anything until you learn to learn everything.

There is no hell; there is no heaven. In your mind, they are your own creation.