Quotes on Inspirational

Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.