Inspirational Quotes - Page 339

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

As you go along your own road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance... But no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still and persevere.

There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

The best proof of love is trust.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.

Ideas shape the course of history.

Your life is in your hands, to make of it what you choose.

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

God would not have put a dream in your heart if He had not already given you everything you need to fulfill it.

Change the way you speak about yourself and you can change your life.

In those times we yearn to have more in our lives, we should dwell on the things we already have. In doing so, we will often find that our lives are already full to overflowing.