Inspirational Quotes


"It's a step at a time, and these are the steps..."

Sheilaa Hite

 

 

"It is never too late to be what we might have been."

George Eliot

 

 

“The only limits are, as always, those of vision.”

 

 

 

“No woman is required to build the world by destroying herself.”

Rabbi Soter

 

 

"Energy is innocent; it's what you do with it that determines the outcome."

Rev. Aldridge

 


"There comes a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud is

more painful than the risk it takes to blossom." 
  
Anais Nin

 

 

 

"If you have built castles in the air, your work

need not be lost.  Now put foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau

 



"You never know-- that's what makes life interesting."

James Clavell

 



"If you cannot find it in yourself, where will you go for it?
Chinese Proverb

 

 



"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. 

 

I don't believe in circumstances.  The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want-- and if they don't find them-- they make them."

George Bernard Shaw

 



"The value of experience is not in seeing much,
but in seeing wisely."
Sir William Osler   

 

 

 

“Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear

of not having lived authentically and fully.”

Frances Moore Lappe

 

 

 

"If you want something new, be open to having it come from

anywhere, anything, any person."

Sheilaa Hite

 



"You gain strength, experience and confidence, by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt 




                                        "I can, therefore, I am."

Simone Weil

 

 


"You are never given a wish without being given

the power to make it come true.  You may

have to work for it, however."

Richard Bach

 

 

 

"A person's life is dyed the color of his imagination."

Marcus Aurelius

 

 

 

 

"The principal mark of genius is not perfection,

but originality, the opening of new frontiers."

A. Koestler

 

 

 

"The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty 'Yes' to your adventure... the adventure of the hero-- the adventure of being alive."

Joseph Campbell

 

 

 

"A journey of a thousand miles begins

with a single step."

Lao-Tze

 

 

 

"Power comes from living in the present moment, where

you can take action and create the future."

Sheilaa Hite

 

 

 

 “Know Thyself” 

 

 

 

"Our worst 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 frightens us. 

We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?'"

Actually, who are you not to be? 

You are a child of God; your playing small doesn't serve the world.

 There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people

won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. 

It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone-- and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. 

As we are liberated from our own fear,

our presence automatically liberates others."

by Marianne Williamson from Nelson Mandela’s Inauguration Speech

 

 

 

“All lives are at the very least, acts of bravery.”
From Michael Apted’s Documentary, “7 Up”

 

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. “

Martin Luther King Jr.

 

 

 

“Security is mostly a superstition.

It does not exist in nature-- life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

Helen Keller

 

 

 

“I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that

we've been forced to deny who we are.”

Frances Moore Lappe

 

 

 

“To risk is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self.

To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk loss.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To try at all is to risk failure.

But to risk we must.

Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

The man, the woman, who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

“To dream anything you want to dream--

that is the beauty of the human mind.

 

To do anything you want to do--

that is the strength of the human will.

 

To trust yourself to test your limits--

 that is the courage to succeed.”

     B. Edwards

 


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