Here are some wonderfully inspiring quotes and gems of wisdom to perk up your day and give you a boost. Enjoy, and tell us which ones you like the best! Tell us your stories of turning around a moment in your life through positive thinking.
- “All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.”
—Alan Cohen, ~ - “What if our religion was each other?
If our practice was our life?
If prayer was our words?
What if our Temple was the Earth?
If forests were our church?
If holy water were the rivers, lakes and oceans?
What if meditation was our relationships?
If the Teacher was life?
If wisdom was self-knowledge?
If love was the center of our being?”
—Ganga White, ~ - “You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.
There is no reason to hesitate when you know that you have nothing to lose. And losing is not an act of God, it is a thought in the mind of humans.
Get rid of the thought and you get rid of doubt.
Ride your Wisdom to Victory.”
—Neale Donald Walsch, ~ - “Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
—Muhammad Ali, ~ - “Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
—Rumi, ~ - “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
—Herman Hesse, ~ - “There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
—Anais Nin, ~ - “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounding yourself with assholes.”
—William Gibson, ~ - “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality. To me, defeat in anything is merely temporary, and its punishment is but an urge for me to exert greater effort to achieve my goal. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.”
—Bruce Lee, Wisdom for the Way - “The past is no more; the future is not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”
—Bruce Lee, Wisdom for the Way - “People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
—George Orwell, ~ - “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
—Alan Cohen, ~ - “All glory comes from daring to begin.”
—Eugene F. Ware, ~ - “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”
—Paul, Galatians 5:1, The Bible - “It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.”
—Ralph Ellison, ~ - “My heart, sit only with those who know and understand you. Sit only under a tree that is full of blossoms.”
—Rumi, ~ - “One does not discover new continents without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
—Andre Gide, ~ - “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast;
A wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”
—Buddha, ~ - “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life.”
—Winston Churchill, War Strategist, Prime Minister of England during WW2 - “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
—Carl Jung, ~ - “You don't have a soul, You ARE a soul. You have a body.”
—C.S. Lewis, ~ - “When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”
—William Arthur Ward, ~ - “When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
—Chinese Proverb, ~ - “When you come to THE EDGE of all that you know, YOU must BELIEVE in one of two things; there will be earth to stand on or you will be GIVEN WINGS TO FLY!!!”
—., ~ - “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try one more time.”
—Edison, ~ - “There are beautiful and wild forces within us.”
—St. Francis of Assisi, ~ - “When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another...”
—Edward Lorenz, ~ - “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”
—., Psalm 118:24 - “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.”
—Rumi, ~ - “If you put your soul against this oar with me, the power that made the universe will enter your sinew from a source not outside your limbs, but from a holy realm that lives within us.”
—Rumi, ~ - “Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.”
—Victor Kiam, ~ - “You define your own life. Don’t let other people write your script. - Oprah Winfrey”
—Oprah Winfrey, ~ - “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
—Bruce Lee, ~ - “Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.”
—Henry David Thoreau, ~ - “Everyone needs beauty as well as bread, places to play and pray, where nature heals and gives strength to body and soul alike.”
—John Muir, ~ - “Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden key out of your pocket. You brought the key here with you when you arrived on this planet, but you sometimes forget to use it. See yourself putting it into the keyhole, then watch the door swing open. On the key are inscribed these words, "Unconditional Love."”
—Marianne Williamson, ~ - “There is no easy formula for determining right and wrong livelihood, but it is essential to keep the question alive… We have to stop pretending that we can make a living at something that is trivial or destructive and still have a sense of legitimate self worth. A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.”
—Sam Keen, ~ - “Grant me the ability to be alone; may it be my way every day
to go outdoors among the trees and grasses,
among all growing things, and there may I be alone,
to talk with the one that I belong to.”
—Rabbi Nachman of Bratzlav, ~ - “Your own happiness is your greatest tool for helping and teaching. It’s a profound energy that emits deeply healing rays of light that have an uplifting effect.”
—Doreen Virtue, ~ - “I dream big! I let go of any limitations on my imagination, and I give voice to my inner wisdom and creative impulses. I shed past fears and doubts, replacing them with courage and love. I nurture my future with the same care that I would give to a newborn baby.”
—Doreen Virtue, ~ - “If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”
—Milton Berle, ~ - “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
—Albert Einstein, ~ - “Begin to weave, and God will give the thread.”
—German proverb, ~ - “Take rest. A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”
—Ovid, Roman Poet - “Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”
—Albert Einstein, ~ - “If you took a blue spruce tree and planted it in the desert, it would obviously perish. How do we forget that we too are living systems, and each of us have unique environments, needs, and conditions within which we flourish or wither?”
—Dawna Markova, ~ - “You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.”
—James Baldwin - “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
—Albert Camus, ~ - “If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.”
—Mahatma Gandhi, ~ - “Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. FEEL the artistry moving through and be silent.”
—Rumi, ~ - “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is youer than you.”
—Dr. Seuss, ~ - “It is natural for the immature to harm others.
Getting angry with them is like resenting a fire for burning.”
—Shantideva, ~ - “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt, ~ - “There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.”
—Mark Twain, ~ - “Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”
—Isabel Allende, ~ - “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”
—Mother Teresa, ~ - “Whether you know it or not, one of the most important relationships in your life is with your Soul. Will you be kind and loving to your Soul, or will you be harsh and difficult? Many of us unknowingly damage our Souls with our negative attitudes and actions or by simple neglect. By making the relationship with your Soul an important part of your life,
however, by honoring it in your daily routine, you give your life greater meaning and substance. Use your experiences --all of them-- as opportunities to nourish your Soul!”
—Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross, ~ - “I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I beli...eve in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
—Audrey Hepburn, ~ - “Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight.
The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste.”
—Mark Twain, ~ - “Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favor compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.”
—Thomas Edison, ~ - “You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
—Albert Camus, ~ - “Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
—Roald Dahl - “Love is a game that two can play and both win.”
—Eva Gabor, ~ - “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
—Mark Twain, ~ - “Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawakened.”
—Anatole France, ~ - “Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.”
—H. Jackson Browne, ~ - “A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.”
—Dr. Albert Schweitzer, ~ - “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
—Mark Twain, ~ - “Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.”
—Martha Graham, ~ - “The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.”
—Ivy Barker Priest, ~ - “In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?”
—Gabrielle Roth, ~ - “Love one another, but make not a bond of love, rather let it be a moving sea between the shores of your soul.”
—Kahil Gibran, ~ - “Don't give your opportunity to someone else because you aren't ready to say YES!”
—~, ~ - “Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.”
—Paul J. Meyer, ~ - “I believe in intuition and inspiration; at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.”
—Albert Einstein, ~ - “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
—James Oppenheim, ~ - “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
—Rumi, ~ - “Don't you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are.”
—Jo Blackwell-Preston, ~ - “The myth of a “big break” is what keeps the average person from becoming successful. They keep waiting on someone else to do something instead of simply taking action.”
—Roy H. Williams, ~ - “While linear thinking goes from A to B to C to D, non-linear thinking, or creative thinking, goes from Q to Venus to Peacock by way of glitter and winds up on your front doorstep at midnight with a bottle of champagne.”
—Jill Allison Bryan, ~ - “The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.”
—Buckminster Fuller, ~ - “Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be far-sighted enough to trust the end result of the process...to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn.”
—Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love - “Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
—Anais Nin, ~ - “Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”
—Norman Vincent Peale, ~ - “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself, to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.”
—Leo F. Buscaglia, ~ - “Have a mouth as sharp as a dagger but a heart as soft as tofu.”
—Chinese Proverbs, ~ - “At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
—Lao Tzu, ~ - “To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
—Kofi Annan, ~ - “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.”
—Helen Keller, ~ - “Stop following your dreams — start leading them.”
—Gloria Feldt, No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power - “Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.”
—Al Bernstein, ~ - “Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”
—Leo Buscaglia, ~ - “You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”
—Shira Tehrani, ~ - “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
—Henry Ford, ~ - “Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
—Shel Silverstein, ~ - “May the warm winds of Heaven blow softly on your home,
And the Great Spirit bless all who enter there.
May your moccasins make happy tracks in many snows,
And may the rainbow always touch your shoulder.”
—Cherokee Blessing, ~ - “Have faith in God. Truly I tell you, if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea’ and if your do not doubt in your heart, but believe that what you say will come to pass, it will be done for you. So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.”
—Jesus, The Bible, Mark 11: 22-24 - “Ask and it will be given, search and you will find, knock and the door will be opened. For everyone who asks receives and everyone who searches finds and for everyone who knocks the door will be opened. Is there anyone among you who, if your child asks for bread will give a stone? Or if the child asks for a fish will give a snake? If you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good things to those who ask him!”
—Jesus, Matthew 7:7-11 - “The Infinite Intelligence is friendly toward us and is more anxious to give us what we want than we are to receive it.”
—Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich - “Faith is the only known cure for failure!”
—Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
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