Inspirational Quotes
"Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes in all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
- 1 Corinthians Ch. 13
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. "
Marcel Proust
"To see a world in a grain of sand
And heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour."
- William Blake
“If you want others to be happy,
practice compassion.
If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.”
- The Dalai Lama
"We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world."
- The Buddha Dhammapada
"I am always with all beings;
I abandon no one. And
However great your inner darkness,
You are never separate from me.
- Bhagavad Gita
The soul in man
Is greater
Than his fate.Man can accept his fate,
He can refuse.Fate shall be changed by an unchanging will.
- Sri Aurobindo, Savitri
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."
Goethe German Poet, Novelist
"The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
Eleanor Roosevelt
Some men see things as they are and ask why.
Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
George Bernard Shaw
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain
American Author, Humorist
"Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be. "
- Sri Chinmoy (1)
Love is an endless mystery
for it has nothing else to explain it.
it waits to be accepted.
Rabindranath Tagore
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
" Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory. "
What keeps us alive, what allows us to endure?
I think it is the hope of loving,
or being loved.
- Meister Eckhart
"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is."
Albert Einstein
“And in the end, it's not the years in your life
that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Quotes on Truth
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Quotes on Gratitude
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer
Quotes on War and Peace
" If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest."
Thomas Jefferson
" We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities."
"We can either climb together or fall into the abyss."
" It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart."