Inspirational Quotations

 

 

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels
and turns at the command of our souls.

Roger Ebert

It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked in chemistry
 for not knowing what we later found to be untrue.

Robert L. Weber

It is not because life is difficult that we do not dare. Life is difficult because we do not dare.

Seneca

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Johann Schiller

It is not what we choose that is important; it is the reason we choose it.

Carolyn Myss

It is when I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer . . .
that ideas flow best and most abundantly.
Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble,
how hopeless the outlook, how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

Emmet Fox

It takes only a six-inch fall for a halo to become a noose.

Source Unknown

It will get as good as you can stand it.

Source unknown

It’s amazing ― you take all the love with you.

From the film, Ghost

It’s impossible to defeat an enemy who has an outpost in your head.

Sally Kempton

It’s not love if it hurts.

Chuck Spezzano

It’s not what you keep out that makes you safe. It’s what you give out.

Source unknown

It’s the best possible time to be alive,
when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong!

Tom Stoppard

It's better to feed one cat than many mice.

Norwegian Proverb

It's important to let people know what you stand for. It's equally important to let them know what you won't stand for.

Source unknown

It's not denial.  I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Calvin & Hobbes

It's not just a job I want. What I really want is inspiration.

From the film,
'Jerry Maguire

It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.

Annie Gottlier

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.   

Buddha

Just as the first five years of life are the formative years of life,
the first five minutes of each day are the formative minutes of the day.
Start your day with spirit, and it will go a lot better.

Source unknown

Just be quiet and still and the world will offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will rill in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Ted Williams

Just sit there right now. Don't do a thing. Just rest. . .
You can use my soft words as a cushion for your head.

Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Keep your eye on the road, and use your rear view mirror only to avoid trouble. 

Daniel Meacham

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Laughter is an instant vacation.  

Milton Berle

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.   

Victor Borge

Launch and release.

Abraham-Hicks

Leaders don’t create followers; they create more leaders.

Tom Peters

Leap, and the net will appear.

Julia Cameron

Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone.
If they mean it, they need it.

Michael Ventura

Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

Shakespeare

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi

Let the one in least fear lead.

Source unknown

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.

Butch Hancock

Life is a feast, and half of the poor suckers think they are starving to death!

Auntie Mame

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Corita Kent

   

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