Quotes on Inspirational

Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results.

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence.

The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

A good life with contentment is itself a great wealth. For we brought nothing with us into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. So if we have enough of what we need, let us be content with that.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

As a species, we're not only wired to choose today over tomorrow, but we hate to feel like we're losing out on something. The bottom line is, if we feel like we're losing something we avoid it, we won't do it. That's why so many people don't save and invest. Saving sounds like you're giving something up, you're losing something today. But you're not.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull . . . was no ordinary bird. Most gulls don't bother_x000D_ _x000D_ to learn more than the simplest facts of flight how to get from shore to food and back again. For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this_x000D_ _x000D_ gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight. More than anything else,_x000D_ _x000D_ Jonathan Livingston Seagull loved to fly.

Life is flying by. You don't have time to waste another minute being negative, offended or bitter. If someone did you wrong, get over it and move forward.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.