Inspiration
One of my greatest joys is collecting the wisdom-sayings that are found in both obvious and unexpected places. I hope you visit this page often, as I frequently add or update. Enjoy!
~Linda~
As humans we are made to surpass ourselves, and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves. -
Huston Smith
Nothing we ever imagine is beyond our powers, only beyond our present self-knowledge.
-Theodore Rosak
Worry is prayer for what you don't want.
-Jesse Spinnler
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you, yourself, have altered.
-Nelson Mandala
"I do not understand the mystery of grace--only that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us."
-Anne LaMott
Dreams come in a size too big, so that we can grow into them.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."
-Marianne Williamson
"You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy."
-John Ruskin
When you die, God and the angels will hold you accountable for all the pleasures you were allowed in life that you denied yourself.
"It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you."
-Oprah Winfrey
Our life's work is to use what we have been given to wake up... It doesn't matter what you're given, whether it's physical deformity or enormous wealth or poverty, beauty or ugliness, mental stability... or instability, life in the middle of a madhouse or life in the middle of a peaceful, silent desert. Whatever you're given can wake you up or put you to sleep.
-Pema Chodron
"Seek first to understand, then to be understood."
-Stephen Covey
"When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go."
-H. J. Brown Jr.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
- James D. Miles
Life offers us innumerable opportunities... The lessons we have to learn is not how we can get better opportunities, but how we may make the best use of those we have.
-Swami Paramananda
Don't die with your music still in you.
-Swedish Proverb
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
"One of the most valuable things we can do... is to listen to each other's stories."
-Rebecca Falls
At the heart of any real intimacy is certain vulnerability. It is hard to trust someone with your vulnerability unless you can see in them a matching vulnerability and know that you will not be judged. In some basic way it is our imperfections and even our pain that draws others close to us.
-Rachel Naomi Remen
"Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence."
-Sai Baba
"Our only security is our ability to change."
- John Lilly
"Love, you know, seeks to make happy, rather than to be happy."
-Ralph Connor
Never cut what can be untied.
-from Life's Little Instruction Book
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.
-Shunryu Suzuki
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
-Oprah Winfrey
"Obstacles are those fearful things we see when we take our eyes off the goal."
-Hanna More
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Maryilyn vos Savant
"We probably wouldn't worry what people think of us if we knew how seldom they do."
-Olin Miller
Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
"If you wish to find, you must search. Rarely does a good idea interrupt you."
-Jim Rohn
"People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within."
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending,"
- Carl Bard
"A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used ... Powerlessness and silence go together."
-Margaret Atwood
"Every turn you fear is empty air, dressed to look like jagged hell."
-Richard Bach
Learn to write your hurts in sand, and carve your blessings in stone!
"Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the adult afraid of the light?"
-Maurice Freehill
"Always live your life with one dream to fulfill. No matter how many of your dreams you have realized in the past, always have a dream to go. Because when you stop dreaming, life becomes a mundane existence."
-Sara Henderson
"Our only security is our ability to change."
-John Lilly
"The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers."
-John Marks Templeton
"The miracle is this, the more we share, the more we have."
-Leonard Nimoy
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live."
-Norman Cousins
We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.
-Luciano De Crescenzo
"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
-Henry J. Kaiser
"It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure...you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is that most people never try anything until they know they can do it."
- Bob Proctor
"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
