Inspirational Quotes - Page 338

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

It always seems impossible until its done.

I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Those who believe that we have reached the limit of business progress and employment opportunity in this country are like the farmer who had two windmills and pulled one down because he was afraid there was not enough wind for both.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.

There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance of the evil he has done, you will stop the advance of the passion. And when you have attained brotherly love and love for mankind, you will completely cast this passion out of your soul. Then when someone else does evil to you, be affectionate and humble toward him, and treat him kindly, and you will deliver him from this passion.

Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love of God. For love toward God does not at all tolerate hatred for man.

If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!

Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with.

Failure is sucess if we learn from it.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.