Inspirational Quotes - Page 169

Light belongs to the heart and spirit. Light attracts people, it shows the way, and when we see it in the distance, we follow it.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

When you can't get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else.

If you do the work you get rewarded. There are no shortcuts in life.

It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.

It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees. Get out of your comfort zone even if it means being uncomfortable. The road less traveled is sometimes fraught with barricades bumps and uncharted terrain. But it is on that road where your character is truly tested And have the courage to accept that you’re not perfect nothing is and no one is — and that’s OK.

I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.

Most things don't work out as expected, but what happens instead often turns out to be the good stuff.

It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition, too.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

All you need is love.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

We must begin to make what I call "conscious choices," and to really recognize that we are the same. It's from that place in my heart that I write my songs.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.