Inspirational Quotes - Page 566

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain. I am in the morning hush, I am in the graceful rush Of beautiful birds in circling flight, I am the star shine of the night. I am in the flowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room. I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there. I do not die.

Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.

It is cheerful to God when you rejoice or laugh from the bottom of your heart.

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes."

Don't think it, ink it.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

No one grows old by living - only by losing interest in living.

Embryos turn into babies; buds turn into blossoms; acorns turn into oak trees. The same programming that exists in them exists in each of us - to manifest our highest potential. What is the difference between those things and us? That we can say no...So today, say yes.

To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.

Until we have seen someone's darkness, we don't really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

If your eyes were open to all the beauty in the world, you would be overwhelmed with joy.