Inspirational Quotes - Page 360

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

Plan your work and work your plan.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.

Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life

The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness

You have to get up every morning and tell yourself 'I can do this.'

To teach is to learn twice.

Belief is truth held in the mind; faith is a fire in the heart.

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)