Quotes on Inspirational

As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it.

Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.