inspirational Quotes
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Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience.
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All the world's a stage.
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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats.
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.
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Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.
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A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.
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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
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Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.
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I'm a gay disabled man who has become very successful. I don't get up in the morning and think I'm inspirational; I just get up thinking that I love horses.
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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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Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.
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I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.
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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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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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Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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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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The past does not influence me; I influence it.
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Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent rage, self-pity, longing, heartbreak, cynicism, without losing the ability to think about what was happening to him. That took courage, I thought, living with the suffering in a mindful way, as an artifact of being, neither good nor bad.
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If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God.
