Inspirational Quotes - Page 189

Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Gratefulness for what is there is one of the most powerful tools for creating what is not yet there. What does gratefulness mean? It means you appreciate what is. You value, you give attention to, you honor whatever is here at this moment.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

When you're sad, you're not sad. You are merely oblivious to the good things in your life. There is always a crack of light in the darkness. Find it.

Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity.

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.

To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.

As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.

Music comes from a place we don't know.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Commitment. This is my favorite word because in some way, people who are committed are always much more interesting and much more reliable, and much more, I would say, deep than people who are not.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.

True intimacy with God always brings humility.

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.