Rachel Naomi Remen – Silence
“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken …
Category: Inspirational quotes
Inspirational quotes
Rowan D. Williams – admire or envy
“In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.” ~Rowan D. Williams
Zora Neale Hurston – Nature
“The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.” ~Zora Neale Hurston
Jill Hanna – defining moments
“Our lives a series of defining moments, strung together by passing time. Surrender fully to this moment, because it is not the moment itself that …
Mickey Rooney – failure to success
“You always pass failure on the way to success.” ~Mickey Rooney
Mahabharata – skill, knowledge and health
“Skill is the best of all laudable things. Knowledge best of all possessions. Health best of all gains and peace of mind is the best …
John Hay – sunshine
“Friends are the sunshine of life.” ~John Hay (1871)
Leah Dancel – Element of Weather
Bondi Beach Lighthouse 2003 “For how they (lighthouses) stand strong against the element of weather speak the strength of the designer’s mind which comprise attitude …
Anon – The Music Plays On
Crothers Cottage in Clarendon SA January 2008 “In the rhythm of Life, we sometime find ourselves out of tune, But as long as there are …
Warren Buffett – few things right
“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” ~Warren Buffett
Winnie the Pooh – no hurry
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ~Winnie the Pooh
Walter Savage Landor – absence and death
“Absence and death are the same — only that in death there is no suffering.” ~Walter Savage Landor
Philip Adams – vast potential
“It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet …
Hubert H. Humphrey -right to be heard
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.” ~Hubert H. Humphrey
Jacob August Riis – humor
“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.” ~Jacob August Riis
Richard Carlson – way to be happy
“There is a way to be happy. It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have.” ~Richard Carlson
Moshe Dayan – freedom
“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.” ~Moshe Dayan
Leah Dancel – grand vacation
11 October 2009 Taupo NZ “The plane, the clouds, the family and the country are what constitute a grand vacation” ~Leah Dancel, FB, 23 August …
Gary Seierstad – art of living
“A good conscience is a very soft pillow.” ~Gary Seierstad, 13 June 2011 “It is fun, excitement and poetry! It is love of today and …
Ann Curry – beauty
“Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature. But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we …
S. H. Simmons – Kindness
“Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.” ~S. H. Simmons
Innerspace – inner attachments
Taken at Redfern Station Bus Stop 28 July 2011 “Just as the bird has to find the courage to let go of the branch in …
Henry Miller – truth to live by
“What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?” ~Henry Miller
Thought for Today – Cherished Soul
“Greet life with enthusiasm and confidence by constantly maintaining the awareness of how cherished you are.” ~Thought for Today-UK
Har Borland – trees and grass
“Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.” ~Har Borland
Fried Green Tomatoes – friends
“You just remind me of what’s really important in life, friends, best friends.” ~Fried Green Tomatoes
Robert J. Hastings – true joy of life
“Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life …
Dennis Prager – happy and grateful
“All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to …
Rupert Brooke – lovely grass
“Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.” ~Rupert Brooke
Peter Max – canvas
“I never know what I’m going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I’m just the middleman.” ~Peter Max
Alan King – nature’s way
“Marriage is nature’s way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.” ~Alan King
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy – like gold
“If you want to be happy, be.” ~Leo Tolstoy “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from …
Judy Garland – into my heart
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.” ~Judy Garland
Charles Stanley – loving arms
“He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.” ~Charles Stanley
Nathaniel Hawthorne – inspire love
“Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Leibniz – propositions
“It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.” …
Sir Thomas Browne – pebbles
“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.” ~Sir Thomas Browne
Luisa Sigea – fire
“Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.” ~Luisa Sigea
Edmund Waller – wpser
“Stronger by weakness wiser men become.” ~Edmund Waller, 17th cent English poet
Gordon Livingston – logic
“It is difficult to remove by logic, an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.” ~Gordon Livingston