Quotes on Inspirational

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.

People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did.

Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.