Quotes on Inspirational

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability.... We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.

Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive... The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

i never learned anything while i was talking.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

When reason fails, the devil helps!

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?....... We make our own destiny.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

The big secret in life is there is no secret. Whatever your goal. You can get there if you're willing to work.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

Myth is what we call other people's religion.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.