Quotes on Inspirational

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

Our minds are as different as our faces. We are all traveling to one destination: happiness, but few are going by the same road.

When I got untethered from the comfort of religion, it wasn't a loss of faith for me, it was a discovery of self. I had faith that I'm capable enough to handle any situation. There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and [that] I'm responsible.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into drops or not, water is water. Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

Success is ninety-nine percent failure.

Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

Shape clay into a vessel; _x000D_ _x000D_ It is the space within that makes it useful. _x000D_ _x000D_ Cut doors and windows for a room; _x000D_ _x000D_ It is the holes which make it useful. _x000D_ _x000D_ Therefore benefit comes from what is there; _x000D_ _x000D_ Usefulness from what is not there.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.