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Inspirational Quotes For Your Life Journey

 

21, August '09

“Judgment stands as an obstacle to self-love. When you form judgments about another person, for instance, “this person looks like a lazy person, or a failure, or has terrible clothes,” you create a message to your subconscious that the world is a place where you had better act in certain ways if you want to be accepted...that you are only going to accept yourself under certain conditions. This leads to an inner dialogue of self-criticism.” - Orin

 

“At any moment each person is always doing the VERY BEST he can, based on his total conscious and non conscious prevailing awareness and which is within his capabilities, energy, time, and developed talents and abilities.” - Sidney Madwed

 

“Someone sent me a picture postcard of the earth. On the back it said, “Wish you were here.” - Steven Wright

 

26, February '09

Sioux Indian Prayer

This prayer was chosen by Indians from 16 tribes meeting in Arizona. The original copy came from Cabot's Old Indian Museum in Desert Hot Springs, California:

 O Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds, and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me. I come before you, one of your many children. I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty and make my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things that you have made, my ears sharp to hear your voice. Make me wise, so that I may know the things that you have taught my people, the lesson you have hidden in every leaf and rock.

I seek strength, not to be superior to my brothers, but to be able to fight my greatest enemy -- myself. Make me ever ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes, so when life fades as a fading sunset, my spirit will come to you without shame.

 

 

 

 

27, September '08

• Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney J. Harris

• People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou
  
  

 

18, September '08

• Love never dies a natural death. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. - Anaïs Nin

 

01, September '08

• All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

 

10, August '08

• The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money. - Plautis

• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles. - Anne Frank

• How easy and simple it is to live enjoyably when the simple, interminable blue of the sky, with its long wisps of white clouds, become a pleasant thing to behold, a thing of beauty that thrills you every time you care to look skyward. - John Schindler

 View From A Plane Window

 

25, June '08

• You were born an original. Don't die a copy. - John Mason

• Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. - George Carlin

 

1, May '08

• Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. - Rita Mae Brown

• Hard work is painful when life is devoid of purpose. But when you live for something greater than yourself and the gratification of your own ego, then hard work becomes a labor of love. - Steve Pavlina

 

21, Apr '08

• A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.  -Louis Nizer

• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up. - Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American Writer and Humorist

 

1, Apr '08

• It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.  –Henry Ward Beecher

 

31, Mar '08

• The position of human beings will improve to the extent that they behave with humility towards others. – Sri Ramana Maharshi

• The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. - Henry Miller

 

27, Mar '08

• >An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. - Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American Author/Critic/Naturalist

• Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love, you will find that you are left holding only yourself. - Leo Buscaglia, 1924-1998, American Author and Expert on Love and Human Relationships
  

 

15, Mar '08

• Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. - Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Unknown

 

4, Mar '08

• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, American Humanitarian and Former First Lady of the United States

• The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. - Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German Philosopher

 

14, Feb '08

• Creative ideas reside in people's minds but are trapped by fear or rejection. Create a judgment-free environment and you'll unleash a torrent of creativity. - Alex Osborne

• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself for he shall never cease to be entertained. - John Boswell

 

12, Feb '08

• The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out, the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish, the other selfish. One is universally admired, the other universally condemned. - Dale Carnegie, excerpted from "How To Win Friends & Influence People"

• Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you; be afraid of friends who flatter you. - General Alvaro Obregon

• Flattery is telling the other person precisely what he thinks about himself. - Unknown

 

25, Jan '08

• To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say. - George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-born American Philosopher

• If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. – Albert Einstein

• When you're Happy for No Reason you're unconditionally happy. It's not that your life always looks perfect -- it's just that however it looks, you'll still be happy. – Marci Shimoff, American Transformational Expert (from her new book, "Happy for No Reason")

 

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8, Jan '08

• Be curious always! For knowledge will not aquire you; you must aquire it. - Sudie Back

• People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. - Unknown

• Place your burden at the feet of the Lord of the Universe who accomplishes everything. Remain all the time steadfast in the heart, in the Transcendental Absolute. God knows the past, present and future. He will determine the future for you and accomplish the work. What is to be done will be done
  at the proper time. Don’t worry.
  Abide in the heart and surrender your acts to the divine. - Sri Ramana Maharshi

 

18, Dec '07

• We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill, English Politician/Author/Nobel Prize Winner

• Many believe that self-help and self-improvement is about rags to riches, failure to success, and so forth, when indeed it is the beginning of a journey into self-discovery. Inside every human being is an eternal truth and a life purpose. Using our mind power is simply starting the engine on that journey of self-discovery and highest self-actualization. - Eldon Taylor, author of "Choices and Illusions"

 

11, Dec '07

• The true art of memory is the art of attention. – Samuel Johnson

• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. – Henry Ward Beecher

 

5, Dec '07

About Angels....

• Angels are often not seen, but rather felt or heard or sensed. People recount a shifting color in the atmosphere, a dream, a clarifying thought, a surge of superhuman strength. Sometimes only visible is the tip of a sword or a muscular arm flung out protectively. - Traci Mullins

• Angels look for an opening in our consciousness, then they slip into our thoughts…our dreams. - Linda Georgian

• Angels are "messengers from God," and they are in your life whether you follow a religion or not, and even if you don't believe in them. - Margaret Neylon

 

6, Nov '07

• Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal." - Hannah More

• Good and evil do not befall men without reason. Heaven sends them happiness or misery according to their conduct. - Confucius

 

29, Oct '07

• The man who has no imagination has no wings. - Muhammad Ali

• Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. . . If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. - Paul Tornier

• Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Richard L. Evans

 

24, Oct '07

• To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. - Chinese Proverb

• Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue. - Persian Proverb

• Better bend than break. - Scottish Proverb

• Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Spanish Proverb

 

23, Oct '07

• Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

• Sometimes you have to take the leap, and build your wings on the way down. - Kobi Yamada

• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. - Mother Teresa