Quotes about inspirational
inspirational courage recovery
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
inspirational essence world
There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness. Anne Lamott
inspirational writing signals
Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in. Anne Lamott
inspirational motivational voice
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. Anne Lamott
inspirational dark
Hope begins in the dark. Anne Lamott
inspirational breathing necks
Your unconscious can't work when you are breathing down its neck. Anne Lamott
inspirational baby heart
A big heart is both a clunky and a delicate thing; it doesn't protect itself and it doesn't hide. It stands out, like a baby's fontanel, where you can see the soul pulse through. Anne Lamott
inspirational trying looks
We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look. Anne Lamott
inspirational-life feet intuition
You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. Anne Lamott
inspirational teenager people
Teenagers who do not go to church are adored by God, but they don't get to meet some of the people who love God back. Anne Lamott
inspirational beauty makeup
Joy is the best makeup. Anne Lamott
inspirational inspiration found
We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were born to be. Anne Lamott
inspirational life god
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. Anne Lamott
inspirational running struggle
It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what's keeping things running right. We're bugs struggling in the river, brightly visible to the trout below. With that fact in mind, people like me make up all these rules to give us the illusion that we are in charge. I need to say to myself, they're not needed, hon. Just take in the buggy pleasures. Be kind to the others, grab the fleck of riverweed, notice how beautifully your bug legs scull. Anne Lamott
inspirational wisdom autism
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott
inspirational essence practice
Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation. Ann Voskamp
inspirational appreciation gratitude
Thanksgiving creates abundance. Ann Voskamp
inspirational grace holiness
... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness... Ann Voskamp
inspirational sports brother
Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top. Andy Roddick
inspirational winning people
It seems with every match I win, I get better-looking to other people. Andy Roddick
inspirational motivational success
At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't. Andy Roddick
inspirational gratitude kindness
To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude. Albert Schweitzer
inspirational success appreciation
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. Albert Schweitzer
inspirational motivational success
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Schweitzer
inspirational thinking people
People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it. Albert Bandura
inspirational producers circumstances
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them. Albert Bandura
inspirational learning parenting
The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests. Albert J. Nock
inspirational depression perspective
People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. Albert Ellis
inspirational believe people
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us. Albert Ellis
inspirational life happiness
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis
inspirational experiments acquire
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus
inspirational motivational love-life
Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us. Albert Camus
inspirational lying years
For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie. Albert Camus