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Words to Inspire

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. -Benjamin Disraeli Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin (1903-1977) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -Sir Winston Churchill A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. -Henrik Ibsen It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -Rene Descartes It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle Wherever you go, go with all your heart. -Confucius It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. -Carl Sandburg The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -F. Scott Fitzgerald I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. -M. C. Escher He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. -Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. -Ralph Waldo Emerson We are responsible for the lives we change. -Rita Dove Irony is bitter truth wrapped up in a little joke. -H.D. If you live in a mind that would destroy itself to comfort itself if you would stand fire rather than difference do not hesitate move away -Lucille Clifton Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -Buddha There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions. -Charles Proteus Steinmetz The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. -Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better than you are. -J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.-- -Chinese proverb Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. -H. Jackson Brown Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks. -Will Durant A closed mouth gathers no foot. -Anonymous We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;-- World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. -Arthur O'Shaughnessy Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity forb kindness. -Seneca Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. -Henry Ward Beecher People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one reamains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure. -Lao-Tzu Life is like playing a violin solo in public, learning the instrument as you go. -Anonymous I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. -Thomas Paine I'd look at one of my stonecutters hammering away at the rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet, at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I knew it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. -Jacob A. Riis A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others. He does not set out to be a leader, but becomes one by the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent. -Unknown Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a tongue that never hurts. -Charles Dickens Autumn to winter, winter to spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change Motion so swift, we know not that we move. -Dinah Mulock Craik We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut What you risk reveals what you value. -Jeanette Winterson All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. -Henry Miller Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. -Katherine Mansfield The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. -Gordon Parks After the final no there comes a yes, and on that yes the future world depends. -Wallace Stevens Make voyages!—Attempt them!—there's nothing else.... -Tennessee Williams Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life. -Bertolt Brecht The beginning is always today. -Mary Wollstonecraft The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. -Walker Percy To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. -Robert Louis Stevenson I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. -Ralph Waldo Emerson The longest journey is the journey inward. -Dag Hammarskjöld We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -Joseph Campbell, author Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. -Krishnamurti, spiritual teacher Just trust yourself then you will know how to live. -Goethe, Faust