Inspirational Quotes - Page 563

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

There's so little money in my bank account, my scenic checks show a ghetto.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in.

When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them-in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You're able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently.

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

We must have hope or starve to death.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working against the wrong thing. And, of course, if the right thing is established wrong things will fade away of their own accord.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. Getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.

Don't be someone that searches, finds and then runs away.

Don't try to be brave when it is enough to be intelligent.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.