Inspirational Quotes - Page 424

Love is to fear as light is to dark; in the presence of one, the other cannot exist. So wherever there is a place of fear in your life, think of one thing - even if it's just a thought you can think-where you can generate love to cast out the fear.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.

When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.

Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.

Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than you expected.

The best fighter is never angry.

Not-knowing is true knowledge. Presuming to know is a disease. First realize that you are sick; then you can move toward health.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

My dream was to become a rec league coach. I love basketball so much, I love playing it, I just never thought I'd make it to college, NBA, or be standing up here today. It is a surreal feeling. So many people doubted me and motivated me. I failed so many times and got back up. I got through the toughest times with my family, but I'm still standing.

The question is not 'Can you make a difference?' You already do make a difference. It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet.

In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.