Quotes about inspirational
inspirational romantic long
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking. Leo Tolstoy
inspirational change happiness
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
inspirational memories moving
Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay. Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes. Pema Chodron
inspirational motivational attitude
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings. Pema Chodron
inspirational powerful communication
Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could we have no agenda when we walk into a room with another person, not know what to say, not make that person wrong or right? Could we see, hear, feel other people as they really are? It is powerful to practice this way..... true communication can happen only in that open space. Pema Chodron
inspirational hero writing
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. Peter S. Beagle
inspirational motivational mistake
It was a mistake and I made the mistake because I was conservative and played safe. And that way lies failure." "Must do it... constantly go to the well... constantly try, try, try. Dare. Dare, Dare. Who dares wins Peter O'Toole
inspirational leadership real
Real leadership is leaders recognizing that they serve the people that they lead. Pete Hoekstra
inspirational diapers needs
Congressmen are like diapers - You need to change them often, and for the same reason
inspirational success teamwork
Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
inspirational helping-others self
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
inspirational change forever
We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
inspirational old-friends enemy
Change to me is like an old friend. It's not my enemy anymore. And I know it will keep coming back to visit again and again to teach me something new. Phyllis George
inspirational baby kids
The last thing my kids ever did to earn money was lose their baby teeth. Phyllis Diller
inspirational lying house
Fang can't stand to see trash & garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition. Phyllis Diller
inspirational coffee kids
Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood. Phyllis Diller
inspirational moving muscles
He has so many muscles he has to make an appointment to move his fingers. Phyllis Diller
inspirational moving tennis
This woman was so cross-eyed. She can go to a tennis match and never move her head. Phyllis Diller
inspirational fighting years
It's true Fang and I fight, but we've never gone to bed mad. Of course, one year we were up for three months. Phyllis Diller
inspirational half hours
His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. Phyllis Diller
inspirational anniversary mistake
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. Phyllis Diller
inspirational truth reality
Facts are many, but the truth is one. Rabindranath Tagore
inspirational life men
And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk. Rabindranath Tagore
inspirational life healing
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. Rabindranath Tagore
inspirational soul answers
The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after. Ralph Waldo Emerson
inspirational motivational veterans-day
Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice. Lin Yutang
inspirational originality come-up
To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any. Les Paul
inspirational motivational determination
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. Les Brown
inspirational mean denial
When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial. Les Brown
inspirational motivational positive
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. Les Brown
inspirational children motivation
Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action. For its symbols (whether in the tangible form of images or in the abstract form of ideas) touch and release the deepest centers of motivation, moving literate and illiterate alike, moving mobs, moving civilizations. Joseph Campbell
inspirational people myth
Myth is what we call other people's religion. Joseph Campbell
inspirational time pain
The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination. Joseph Campbell