Inspirational Quotes - Page 164

False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.

To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

If you're not living a life on the edge you're taking up too much space! ... You learn the most when you're out of your comfort zone!

My homies that are around me never give me that 'star pass'. I've hung out with some stars who are playing basketball and everyone let's them score all the baskets. Shooting pool, they let them make all the shots. My homies don't let me get away with that.

Let us first teach little children to breathe, to vibrate, to feel, and to become one with the general harmony and movement of nature. Let us first produce a beautiful human being, a dancing child.

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.

...I came to realize that God never shows us something we aren't ready to understand. Instead, He lets us see what we need to see, when we need to see it. He'll wait until our eyes and hearts are open to Him, and then when we're ready. He will plant our feet on the path that's best for us. . . but it's up to us to do the walking.

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

There's nothing that can help you understand your beliefs more than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child.

Keep your standards high, and any guy who is worth it will rise to meet them.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible; to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance, to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.