Quotes Tagged "inspirational"

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

Arise, awake, stop not till the goal is reached.

My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who really belong in your life - will come to your. And stay.

Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy

Only when I fall do I get up again.

God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)

Pressure makes diamonds

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also

The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.