Inspirational
Quotes - I am not a teacher, but an awakener
“If
we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a
friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna
go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a
couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense.
You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and
build your wings on the way down.”
―
Ray Bradbury
“If
we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each
other.”
―
Mother Teresa
“If
you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the
answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same
place.”
―
Nora Roberts
“Stepping
onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation,
which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”
―
Maya Angelou
“The
higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“Be
steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in
your work.”
―
Gustave Flaubert
“No
matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her
face, she will be beautiful.”
―
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The
grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to
love, and something to hope for.”
―
George Washington Burnap, The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures
“Whatever
you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness
has genius, power and magic in it!”
―
John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust
“I
am a part of all that I have met.”
―
Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson
“I
figured something out. The future is unpredictable.”
―
John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“Pain
is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the
heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a
sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of
pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels
like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind
against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air!
We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest
thing that will give us that wind against our faces.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Earth
provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“There
is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is
a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is
a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”
―
Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
“I
have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo
Galilei
“Two
roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I
took the one less traveled by,
And
that has made all the difference.”
―
Robert Frost
“We're
so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save
the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme
arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't
even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one
another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's
nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The
people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's
been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks.
We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave
much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam.
The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another
closed-end biological mistake.”
―
George Carlin
“Do
no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
―
Patricia Cornwell
“It’s
your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be
brave to live from your heart.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“I
sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God
declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
―
John Henry Newman
“Not
being heard is no reason for silence.”
―
Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables
“You're
beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary
passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own,
is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered.
Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind
the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the
two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she
complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at
all. Since she's my rose.”
―
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“When
you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think,
to enjoy, to love ...”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“I
am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
―
Robert Frost
“Write
it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Where
there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
―
Rumi
“Well,
we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our
mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with
us.”
―
L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea