Quotes on Inspirational

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

If music be the food of love, play on.

We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.