inspirational Quotes
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
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How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.
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Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
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Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
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The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
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With breast cancer, nothing is straightforward. It makes sense for most people to make their dietary decisions based on what it does for heart disease. That's where the data are most strong.
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If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.
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To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
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In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.
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You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the very next person who you stand behind in line or sit next to on an aeroplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.
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I admire people who are very successful. But if that success has been achieved through too much ruthlessness, then I may admire that person, but I can't respect him.
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Everyone who works with love and with intelligence finds in the very sincerity of his love for nature and art a kind of armor against the opinions of other people.
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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
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We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still.
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When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it.
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To know just what has do be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.
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Before it can be solved, a problem must be clearly defined.
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I didn't want women to walk out of the dressing rooms feeling depressed and wanting a cocktail.
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Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.
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If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?
