My Favourite Inspirational Quotes

Tuesday, March 25, 2008 ·

With the death of every friend I love . . . a part of me has been buried . . . but their contribution to my being of happiness, strength, and understanding remains to sustain me in an altered world.
---Helen Keller

It's easy enough to be happy when life is flowing like a song, but the man worthwhile is the man who will smile when everything goes wrong!
---Unknown

As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster.
---HH The Dalai Lama

By making someone happy, you will be achieving your own happiness.
---Julie Evelyn Button

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
---Dale E. Turner

If you believe everything you read, you better not read.
---Unknown

It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will.
---Jiddu Krishnamurti

Live your life from you heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
---Melody Beattie

Why worry about tomorrow and spoil today, when joy today will bring forth a better memory for tomorrow.
---Ethan Daniel

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
---Chinese Proverb

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or afraid to unbend.
---D.C. Peattie.

I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life.
---HH The Dalai Lama

There is no accomplishment in life better than a peace of mind and a happy home.
---Blessing onuoha

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.
---Thich Nhat Hanh

The Brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past. You can't go on well in life until you let go of all of your past failures and heartaches.
---Unknown

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart.
---Helen Keller

The first step to greatness is to be honest.
---Johnson

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
---Thomas Merton

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
---Leo Buscaglia

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
---Serenity Prayer

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
---Confucious

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
---Unknown

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
---O.A. Battista

He who asks, is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
---Chinese Proverb

Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.
---Norman Vincent Peale

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
---Fredrick Koeing

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
---Leo Buscaglia

Each of you should feel that you have great potential and that, with self-confidence and a little more effort, change really is possible if you want it. If you feel that your present way of life is unpleasant or has some difficulties, then don’t look at these negative things. See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort.
---HH The Dalai Lama

Don't love life, love the people in your life. After all, that's what makes your life.
---Andrea Stier

People love others not for who they are, but for how they make them feel.
---Irwin Federman

You have powers you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do. There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations of your own mind.
---Darwin P. Kingsley

Sometimes you gotta stop and remember that your not gonna live forever. Be young, think smart, stay true and just follow your heart.
---Unknown

True wealth can not be found in your bank account. It can only be found in those you call friend. Those with whom you share your deepest feelings. And those who accept you for who you really are.
---Mary Vandergrift

Don't be afraid to fail because only through failure do you learn to succeed.
---Unknown

Live every day as if it were your last because you never know when it might be.
----Honor

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
---Robert A. Heinlein

The hardest part of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
---Nan Fairbother

Genuine human friendship is on the basis of human affection, irrespective of your position. Therefore, the more you show concern about the welfare and the rights of others, the more you have a genuine friend. The more you remain open and sincere, then ultimately more benefits will come to you. If you forget or do not bother about others, then eventually you will lose your own benefit.
---HH The Dalai Lama

Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.
---Pei

Whoever has a heart full of love always has something to give.
---Pope John XXIII

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
---Henry Drummond

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
---Lao-Tzu

It's easy enough to be happy when life is flowing like a song, but the man worthwhile is the man who will smile when everything goes wrong!
---Unknown

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or afraid to unbend.
---D.C. Peattie

Love is everywhere, it has no distance. All you have to do is stop the resistance.
---Matt Zotti

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
---David Byrne

Wanting something bad enough is not about waiting for it to come around to you. You have to take that chance and get it yourself.
---Nikole Flannery

Life is only what you make of it whether it's good, bad, happy or sad.
---Natalie Wilson

Love is always bestowed as a gift -- freely, willingly, and without expectation.... We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
---Leo Buscaglia

Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there's a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
---Anonymous

Follow your heart and your dreams will come true.
---Anonymous

It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.
---Proverb

There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of the most important factors is human compassion and affection: a sense of caring.
---HH The Dalai Lama

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
---Len Wein

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
---Eustace Budgell

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
---Ralph W. Sockman

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.
---Max L. Forman

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
---William Makepeace Thackeray

Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day.
---Goethe

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
---Mark Twain

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
---Dale Carnegie

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
---Ralph Waldo Emerson

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
---Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
---Kahlil Gibran

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
---Marcel Proust

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
---Albert Einstein

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
---Eleanor Roosevelt

Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.
---HH The Dalai Lama

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
---Henry Van Dyke

Laugh, Live, Smile, and Love... for what you get out of life comes from what you put in.
---Unknown

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
---Vince Lombardi

You wouldn't worry so much about what people really thought of you if you knew just how seldom they actually do.
---Unknown

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks about changing themselves.
---John Randolph

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