Quotes on Inspirational

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw your body against the door to keep the demons from advancing and stay put until they go away.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.