Inspiration Quotes

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.

Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real.

The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect".

Make jokes. No stress. Love. Live Life. Proceed. Progress.

Somewhere along the way in your life, the world and its people will have a problem with you. That's their problem. Not yours.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest.

My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

I know of no single formula for success.
But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts,
their talents,
their insights,
their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I don't need it to be easy. I just want it to be worth it.

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

The only limit to the power of Almighty God lies within you & me.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness.

We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

Place your mind before the mirror of eternity! Place your soul in the brilliance of glory! And transform your entire being into the image of the Godhead Itself through contemplation.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself.

To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment

Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think that I am following Your Will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please You does in fact please You. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing.

To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.

The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.

A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.

I'm not a dreamer... but I believe in miracles. I have to

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

Victory is in having done your best. If you've done your best, you've won.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.

Find out what the next thing is that you can push, that you can invent, that you can be ignorant about, that you can be arrogant about, that you can fail with, and that you can be a fool with. Because in the end, that's how you grow.

The main difference between the art of the actor and all other arts is that every other [non-performing] artist may create whenever he is in the mood of inspiration. But the artist of the stage must be the master of his own inspiration, and must know how to call it forth at the hour announced on the posters of the theatre. This is the chief secret of our art.