Inspirational Quotes - Page 252

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

We share in the certainty that people labeled with mental illness are first and above all, human beings. Our lives are precious and are of infinite value.

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

Time is an ethereal and sometimes cruel goddess. In her relentless passing, she steals away our youth and vitality, often in ways that seem insignificant until we finally realize how much she has taken. Still, she is also a generous deity, who offers to replace what she has seized with a deeper wisdom and a clearer vision of life's enigmas. In this sense, time can be our most powerful ally-if we are patient enough.

The intellect always cuts and divides like a pair of scissors. The heart sews things together and unites like a needle. The tailor uses both.

Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

When we tell our own story, we teach the values that our choices reveal, not as abstract principals, but as our lived experience. We reveal the kind of person we are to the extent that we let others identify with us.

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

It's what you do right now that makes a difference.

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it.

Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.