Inspirational Quotes - Page 500

No one lives on the top of the mountain. It's fine to go there occasionally -for inspiration, for new perspectives. But you have to come down. Life is lived in the valleys. That's where the farms and gardens and orchards are, and where the plowing and the work is done. That's where you apply the visions you may have glimpsed from the peaks.

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Fearlessness is the mother of reinvention.

We challenge one another to be funnier and smarter.... It's the way friends make love to one another.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.

I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

The majority see the obstacles; the few see the objectives; history records the successes of the latter, while oblivion is the reward of the former

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is a secret and that we are united with all life that is in nature.

Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.

The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.

The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

Whining is anger through a small opening.

I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.