Anon – more you can hear
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” ~Anon
Category: Inspirational quotes
Inspirational quotes
Demosthenes – great enterprises
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” ~ Demosthenes
Wayne Dyer – state of life
“The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind.” ~Wayne Dyer
Sophocles – wisdom
“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.” ~Sophocles
Confucius – don’t stop
“It does not matter how you go so long as you don’t stop.” ~Confucius
Winston Churchill – great things
“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” ~Winston Churchill
Anon – better sense of humor
A dedication to a Loving and Humorous Father. I am so Proud to Know You “No one ever promised me it would be easy and …
EB White – comics and comedians
“America is a nation of comics and comedians; nevertheless, humor has no stature and is accepted only after the death of the perpetrator.” ~E.B. White
Constance Rourke – pockets of emotion
For My Humorous Friend “An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or …
Vivian Mercier – absurd and true
“Wit is always absurd and true, humor absurd and untrue.” ~Vivian Mercier
Charles S. Brooks – wit and humor
“Wit is a lean creature with sharp inquiring nose, whereas humor has a kindly eye and a comfortable girth. Humor laughs at another’s jest and …
Mark Twain – longitude and latitude
“When I’m playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch …
Thought for Today – Angel
“Acceptance gives me the experience of being like an angel: never judging, never criticising and never worrying.” ~Thought for Today-UK
Francis Bacon – contemplation
“Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must …
Friedrich Von Schlegel – retrospection
“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.” ~Friedrich Von Schlegel
Victor Null – books
“Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and …
Walter Lippmann – introspection
“We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world—introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably—that the best way of knowing the …
Dalai Lama – religion
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; …
Osho – existence
“You are not accidental. Existence needs you. Without you something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it. That’s what gives you dignity, …
Edward de Bono – creativity
“We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.” ~Edward de …
Thought for Today – Plant The Seed Of Peace
“As our thought so is our consciousness, and as is our consciousness so is our life. Let your first thought of the day simply be …
Gilda Radner – ambiguity
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, …
Don Hahn – enrichment
“Most of what you will create is for your enrichment or is a stepping stone to other better, more insightful work. Maybe once or twice …
Francis Gay – truth
“Fortunate is the nation that has writers to whom the truth means everything!” ~ Francis Gay (1979)
Thought for Today – Quality Spotting
“A compassionate person develops an eye for spotting the qualities that make each person special. Even when others are at their lowest ebb, it is …
Francis Gay – true compassion
“To help people when we can – that’s good; but to anticipate their needs is true compassion.” ~Francis Gay, TFBFG 1983
Baltasar Gracian -task and confidence
“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, …
Thought for Today – Trustee Consciousness
” …a better relationship we can choose which takes all the fear away, is to, be a trustee. Everything comes to us in trust, for …
Tom Clancy – hope and invention
“Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.” ~Tom Clancy
Gerald Jampolsky – healing
“Healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web …
Carol Burnett – problems and challenges
“I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don’t work out, that’s when I’ve really learned. “— Carol Burnett
Samuel Butler – portrait
“Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” ~Samuel Butler
Erica Jong – part of life
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life — …
Aldous Huxley – experience
“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.”~ Aldous Huxley
Thought for Today – Respect
“It is always easy to expect and demand respect from others. It is simple to criticise others for not being respectful or for being rude …
Carlos Casteneda – focus, unfocus
“It is important to do what you don’t know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what …
Abe Tannenbaum – right ideas
“The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn’t need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.” ~Abe …
David M. Gottesman – fathers
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers — and fathering is a very important stage in their development.” ~David M. Gottesman
Roger Meyer – Garden of Eden
“Ever since God planted the Garden of Eden, mankind has been planting seeds and enjoying the fruits and the beauty of the many varieties of …
Richard A Wilson – sounds of solitude
“A balanced outlook on life is one that is not always in a hurry to go to a particular place and do some structured activity. …