Quotes on Inspirational

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.

Go forth in every direction- for the happiness, the harmony, the welfare of the many. Offer your heart, the seeds of understanding, like a lamp overturned and re-lit, illuminating the darkness.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud.

We must be fully committed, but we must also be aware at the same time that we might possibly be wrong. People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one...is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt.

We must always base our commitment in the center of our own being, or else no commitment will be ultimately authentic.

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.