Inspiring Quote

HH the Dalai Lama

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

Anna Quindlen

Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently willful? "Keep her," I replied.... The suffragettes refused to be polite in demanding what they wanted or grateful for getting what they deserved. Works for me.

Samuel Smiles

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Marshall Rosenberg

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

Elizabeth Kenny

He who angers you conquers you.

Marcus Aurelius

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Willa Cather

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Epictetus

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

Stephen Covey

Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

Carl Sandburg

Choose
The single clenched fist lifted and ready,
Or the open hand held out and waiting.
Choose:
For we meet by one or the other.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

Will Rogers

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

Frederick Douglass

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Pascal

Man is neither angel nor brute, and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the brute.

Louisa May Alcott

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. [Character of Marmee in Little Women]

Harriet Goldhor Lerner

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

Dom Helder Camara

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

Melodie Beattie

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity.... It turns problems into gifts, failures into success, the unexpected into perfect timing, and mistakes into important events. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

Talmud (attributed)

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

Albert Camus

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Paul Valéry

A man who is "of sound mind" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.