Inspirational Quotes - Page 171

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

When we bear witness, when we become the situation - homelessness, poverty, illness, violence, death - the right action arises by itself. We don't have to worry about what to do. We don't have to figure out solutions ahead of time. Peacemaking is the functioning of bearing witness. Once we listen with our entire body and mind, loving action arises.

Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.

To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.

We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.

Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

The future never just happened. It was created.

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.

To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

My aim is to spread more smiles than tears.