Quotes on Inspirational Life

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

Life's not just about being alive, but being well.

Whoever wants God intensely, finds Him. Go and verify it in your own life.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long.

Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.

The more one lives alone on the river or in the open country, the clearer it becomes that nothing is more beautiful or great than to perform the ordinary duties of one's daily life simply and naturally.

Once the Choice is Made, Do Not Look Back, Do Not Second-Guess Your Decisions

From the grasses in the field to the stars in the sky, each one is doing just that; and there is such profound peace and surpassing beauty in nature because none of these tries forcibly to transgress its limitations.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.