Quotes about inspirational
inspirational children kids
Children are the brightest treasures we bring forth into this world, but too large a percentage of the population continues to treat them as inconveniences and nuisances, when they're not treating them as possessions or toys. Charles de Lint
inspirational insperational helping-others
I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.
inspirational life kindness
It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.
inspirational reason staying
You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. Charles Dickens
inspirational stars lying
So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.
inspirational perseverance journey
It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.
inspirational strong home
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
inspirational heart literature
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
inspirational heart passionate
There are chords in the human heart- strange, varying strings- which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch.
inspirational-life fit reserves
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. Chester A. Arthur
inspirational life-changing flower
I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a past-bloom flower in the wind. Every time I moved a muscle, another petal of me blew away. Please, I thought. Please. Cheryl Strayed
inspirational morning life-changing
When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something like excitement but came up only with a morose unease. Every now and then I could see myself-truly see myself-and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was 'the woman with the hole in her heart'. That was me.
inspirational life-changing rooms
Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.
inspirational life-changing giving
The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.
inspirational regret life-changing
It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.
inspirational mom mother
I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me." "Oh, Mom," was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else."
inspirational
How wild it was, to let it be.
inspirational fear life-changing
Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear. Cheri Huber
inspirational kissing
Anyone who's a great kisser I'm always interested in. Cher
inspirational determination motivation
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
inspirational courage greatness
Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
inspirational men silence
The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe. Charlotte Lennox
inspirational purpose wealth
A permanent relationship is dependent on particular purpose or wealth. Chanakya
inspirational dog men
The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
inspirational book wealth-of-knowledge
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
inspirational men effort
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
inspirational dog kings
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
inspirational wisdom emotion
As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
inspirational encouraging people
Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
inspirational men wicked
There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.
inspirational beauty education
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
inspirational children kids
Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
inspirational grief loss
It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.