Quotes on Inspirational

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

The point of life is not to get anywhere—it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create—who and what you are, and then to experience that.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

a setback is a setup for a comeback

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.

When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's heart.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

What is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power of a value system that functions in human life and in the universe.

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.