Inspirational Quotes

Bubbles

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"To make a positive difference you must act with a difference. When others are concerned about what they can get, concern yourself with what you can create. Where others are looking for someone to blame, put your focus on what can be done. If the rest of the world sees a problem, make it your job to uncover the accompanying opportunity. When all others have given up, find a way to keep going. In the midst of bickering and disorder, speak with a strong but calm voice of reason. To make a positive difference requires that you go against the negative grain. It takes courage to be positively different. The easier course is to just go along with the crowd. Yet darkness is abated only by a shining light, not by more darkness. Stand up. Stand out. Have the courage to leave the well-worn path of mediocrity. Do it differently and truly make a difference."

Ralph Marston

"Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."

John Cage

"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything, is ready, we shall never begin."

Ivan Turgenev

"Be patient toward everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.. Do not search for the answers which could not be given to you now because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything... Live the questions now."

Rilke

"If we all did the things we a capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

Thomas A. Edison

"Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

Lloyd George

"Argue for your limitations and they're yours."

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

"Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift."

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Paul Boese

"The more you know, the less you understand."

Tao Te Ching

"Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration."

David Deida

"The beginning of freedom is the realisation that you are not ‘the thinker’. The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realise that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realise that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken."

Eckhart Tolle

"The aim of Yoga is to realize that we are all connected. We share one heart, one consciousness, and one Divine Source. Yoga's method is to provide us with experiences that help us grasp this."

Sharon Gannon and David Life

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes."

Walt Whitman

"Words are a reflection of mind; and mind is a reflection of God - use these wisely."

James Arthur Ray

"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. "

Erich Fromm

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"

Dr. Seuss

"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

Judy Garland