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Inspirational Quotes

 The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
- Aristotle

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you,

pales in comparison to what lies inside you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your body is the harp of your soul.
- Kahlil Gibran

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way;
and still, as darker grows the night, emits a brighter ray.
- Oliver Goldsmith

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha

Conscious and unconscious are not necessarily the opposition to one another,
but complement one another to form a totality, which is the self.
- Carl G. Jung

We acquire the strength we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
- Pamela Vaull Starr

To meditate is to observe simultaneously the formation of thought and breath,
and then let it go, without complicating it, without formalizing it, without identifying with it, without rejecting it,
letting it follow its own way.
- Allen Ginsberg

The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Where there's life, there's hope.
- Terence

As any change must begin somewhere.
It is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through.
- Carl G. Jung

All things are possible to him who believe.
- John 20:29

Walk tall as the trees; live strong as the mountains; be gentle as the spring winds;
keep the warmth of summer in your heart,
and the Great Spirit will always be with you.
- Anonymous (Native American)

The soul knows only the soul;
The web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,
but the parent of all the others.
- Cicero

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
- Gerard de Nerval

It's only in our minds that we are separate from the rest of the world.
- Gay Luce

He reveals himself daily to every human being,
but we shut our ears to the still small voice.
- Mohadas K. Gandhi

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
- Henri L. Bergson

Change is a challenge and an opportunity.
- Prince Phillip of England

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
- Dalai Lama

Around our pillows golden ladders rise, and up and down the skies,
with winged sandals shod, the angels come, and go, the messenger of God.
- Richard Henry Stoddard

When you're skating on thin ice,
you may as well tap-dance.
- Bryce Courtenay

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
But in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

The wisdom of love, the highest wisdom ever known upon the earth.
- Charles Dickens

Never let a cloudy day ruin your sunshine, for even if you can't see it,
the sunshine is still there, inside of you ready to shine.
- Amy Pitzelle

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney

Action is the antidote to despair.
- Joan Baez

It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars.
It is one soul which animates all men.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth,
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up,
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit,
and resign yourself to the influences of each.
- Henry David Thoreau

The first step toward change is acceptance.  Change is not something you do,
it's something you allow.
_ Will Garcia

As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single
individual who will experience it and carry it through.
- Carl G. Jung

Pay attention to your dreams, God's angels often speak directly to our hearts
when we are asleep.
- Eileen Elias Freeman

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure
is what is right here right now.  Don't miss it.
- Leo Buscaglia

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague.
Who shall say when the one ends, and where the other begins?
- Edgar Allan Poe

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
- Anonymous

Life must be lived on a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend;
there, the whole aspect of things changes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life without liberty, is like a body without spirit.
- Kahlil Gibran

Life isn't about finding yourself.  Life is about creating yourself.
- George Bernard Shaw

God gave us two ends.  One to sit on and one to think with.
Success depends on which one you use; heads, you win and tails, you lose.
- Anonymous

I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now.  Unless I am letting
my consciousness be dominated.  By demands and expectations based on the dead past, or the imagined future.
- Ken Keyes, Jr.

How people treat you is their karma;
How you react is yours.
- Wayne Dyer

Life is real, life is earnest!  And the grave is not its goal;
dust thou art, to dust returnest was not spoken of the soul.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful,
we must carry it with us or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's wisdom to know others;

it is enlightenment to
know one's self.
LAO – TZU
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