Inspirational Quotes - Page 257

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret

I just want to touch your soul, let me pour into you. Fill you with my joy, and make you feel brand new.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

Until you become a parent, you can't begin to discover your capacity for strength, love and fatigue.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.

There is no sin except stupidity.

Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.

Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment

The three words every woman really longs to hear: I'll clean up.

Life is best when you are in love.

There are really only two ways to approach life - as victim or as gallant fighter - and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you don't decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you.

During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

There's nothing better than a world where everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent.

Do everything you need to do to keep the passion alive and never forget that it is a privilege to do what you love.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have.