Quotes on Inspirational

I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

You can disagree without being disagreeable.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Tertön Sogyal, the Tibetan Mystic, said that he was not really impressed by someone who could turn the floor into the ceiling or fire into water. A real miracle, he said, was if someone could liberate just one negative emotion.

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.