Inspirational Quotes - Page 434

I believe it is a spirit of hope that gathers us here together today.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

When you catch yourself thinking negative thoughts-thoughts that negate your highest idea about a thing-think again! I want you to do this, literally. If you think you are in a doldrum, in a pickle, and no good can come of this, think again. If you think the world is a bad place, filled with negative events, think again. If you think your life is falling apart, and it looks as if you'll never get it back together again, think again.

There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

These were people so hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is no substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you as I'm sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Awareness is a key ingredient in success. If you have it, teach it, if you lack it, seek it.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all.

Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.

On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel?

A right delayed is a right denied.

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?