Inspirational Quotes - Page 152

If I'm using Nonviolent Communication I never, never, never hear what somebody thinks about me. Never hear what somebody thinks about you, you'll live longer. You'll enjoy life more. Hear the truth. The truth is that when somebody's telling you what's wrong with you, the truth is they have a need that isn't getting met. Hear that they're in pain. Don't hear the analysis.

By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

I used to want the words 'She tried' on my tombstone. Now I want 'She did it.'

God is in my head, but the devil is in my pants.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.

Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

Stay focused. Your start does not determine how you're going to finish.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Make me an instrument of thy peace.