Inspirational Quotations

 

Never wrestle with a pig.  You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.

Country wisdom

No amount of self-improvement can make up for a lack of self-acceptance.

Source unknown

No man ever stated his troubles as lightly as he might.

Emerson

No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Sam Rayburn

No one knows you as well as you know yourself,
except for a few people who know you better.

Source unknown

No problem is so big that it can't be solved by a good miracle.

Source unknown

No statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Jean Sibelius

Not this crude leather; luminous beings are we!

Yoda

Nothing can interfere with God’s perfect plan.

Affirmation

Nothing is always wrong. Even a clock that is stopped is right twice a day.

Source unknown

Nothing will change until you change. Everything will change when you change.

Lou DiCaprio

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Samuel Johnson

Now all that is left is for you to become yourself.

Sense

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.

Source Unknown

Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is tixed to a star does not change his mind.


Leonardo Da Vinci

On the morning that you believe you do not have 20 minutes to meditate,
that is the morning you should take 40 minutes to meditate.

Source Unknown 

Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box.

Italian Proverb

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative
is to mind your own business.

Thomas Merton

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Bertrand Russell

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:  To rise above the little things. 

John Burroughs

One's true religion is what one cares about most.

Walter Starcke

Only infinite patience begets immediate results.

A Course in Miracles

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.

Dennis Diderol               

Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in
can hope to escape.

William S. Burroughs

Only those who dare to go too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

Only those who go where few have gone can see what few have seen.

Buddha

Only those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

Source unknown

Open your eyes!  The world is still intact; it is as pristine as it was on the first day, as fresh as milk!

Paul Claudel

Pain happens; suffering is optional.

Source Unknown

Painful experience is the darkroom in which you can use negatives to develop.

Swami Beyondananda

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in one ahead.

Source unknown

People are always in good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.

Samuel Butler

People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality
than out of the honesty.

Richard J. Needham

Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.

Elmer Leterman

Play the music, not the instrument.

Source unknown

Please let us know if you break any item, so we can forgive you.

Sign in
a pottery shop

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

Madonna

Pray devoutly, hammer stoutly.

English Proverb

Pray with your feet moving.

Source unknown

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. 

Søren Kierkegaard

Prayer is not the overcoming of God’s reluctance, but the taking hold of God’s willingness.

Phillip Brooks

 

   

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