Inspirational Quotes - Page 377

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

Beware of writing to me. I always answer ... My father spent the last 20 years of his life writing letters. If someone thanked him for a wedding present, he thanked them for thanking him and there was no end to the exchange but death.

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves.

All limitations are self-imposed.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission. I suffered for years because I was scared to be out. My spirit suffered, my mental health suffered and my relationships suffered. And I'm standing here today, with all of you, on the other side of that pain.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed - there's so little competition.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

The present moment is all you ever have.

More depends on my walk than talk.

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

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.