Inspirational Quotes

DIFFICULTIES

When we long for life without difficulties,
remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds
and diamonds are made under pressure.

~Peter Marshall

NOW

Now is the dwelling place of God himself.

~Thomas R. Kelly

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.

~William Blake

IMAGINATION

Imagination continually frustrates
tradition, that is it's function.

~John Pfeiffer

FAITH

Faith is an oasis in the heart
which can never be reached
by the caravan of thinking.

~Kahlil Gibran

TRUTH

Truth is not determined
by majority vote.

~Doug Gwyn I

HEART

Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens.

~Carl Jung

RISK

One does not discover new lands
without consenting to
lose sight of the shore
for a very long time.

~Andre Gide

INTEGRITY

Re-examine all you have been told...
Dismiss what insults your Soul.

~Walt Whitman

God is the good that we can all agree upon.

~Emma Curtis Hopkins

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

For to everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

~Matthew 7:78 NIV Bible

Out beyond the ideas of right doing
and wrong doing is a field --
I'll meet you there.

~Rumi

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart...

~Anne Frank

Faith Alone is what really matters.

~Nichiren Daishonin

Like the morning sun that rises, some people have an angel's way of lighting up the world with joy and happiness each day.

~Anonymous

THOUGHTS

want to know God's thoughts...
the rest are details.

~Albert Einstein

I have a tremendous faith in the innate healing intelligence of the human body.

~Dr. Ron Meyers

The best prescription is knowledge.

~C. Everett Koop

Happi is a present attitude
not a future condition.

~Hugh Prather

The dawn is not distant,
Nor is the night starless;
Love is eternal!

~Longfellow

You know you have forgiven someone
when he or she has harmless passage through your mind.

~Rev. Karyl Huntley's
Submitted by: Rev. Carrie Lauer

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

~Rev. Viktor E. Frankl "Man's Search for Meaning"
Submitted by: Rev. Carrie Lauer

Looking at small advantages
prevents great affairs
from being accomplished.

~Confusius

May faith make your life serene, and hope help keep it bright and may joy fill each waking hour, and peace fill every night! For to the bee a flower is a fountain of life, and to the flower a bee is a messenger of love.

~Kahil Gibran

Any barriers that exist between us and God
are within our own hearts and minds, not within God.

~Bernadette Swanson

The Spirit within knows the answer
to any problem that confronts us.

~Ernest Holmes

RELATIONSHIPS

The easiest kind of relationship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.

~Joan Baez~

To rule one's anger is well;
To prevent it is still better.

~Tryon Edwards

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

~Bertrand Russell

Learn to live with self
and you will learn to live with others.

~Edgar Cayce

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.

~Origen

Anyone can make a hole in clay, but few can bring beauty and sensitivity to the hole. It is the true artists who lift the race in science, medicine, and creativity.

~Beatrice Wood

Some of your hurts you have cured, and the sharpest you've survived, But what torments of grief you've endured, from evils which never arrived.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is curious, but if one smiles, darkness fades.

~Beatrice Wood

Tenactiy

Most of the important things in world
have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying
when there seemed to be no hope at all.

~Dale Carnegie

Growth is the willingness to let
reality be every new moment.

~Deepak Chopra

Obstacles

As long as a man stands in his own way,
everything seems to be in his way.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resentments

Holding on to anger is like grasping
a hot coal with the intent of throwing
it at someone else; you are
the one who gets burned.

~Buddah

Self

Whatever games are played with us,
we must play no games with ourselves.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let nothing disturb you.
Let nothing frighten you.
Everything passes away except God.

~St. Teresa of Avila

Obstacles
Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine…

(your) values and goals…

Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones
to build the life you want.

Marsha Sineta

Loneliness

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're with.

~Wayne Dyer

Action

Take the first step in faith.
You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step.

~Martin Luther King, Jr

Happiness

Just think how happy you would be
if you lost everything you have right now,
and then got it back.

~Frances Rodman

Yesterday

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

~Will Rogers

Whatever your problem,
no matter how difficult,
you can release spiritual power
sufficient to solve your problem.
The secret is - pray and believe.

~Norman Vincent Peale

Achievement

Great things are not done by impulse,
but by a series of small things brought together.

~Vincent Van Gogh

It can in no sense be said
that heaven is outside of any one;
it is within…

And a man also,
so far as he receives heaven,
is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

~Emanuel Sedenborg

Opportunity

Opportunity dances with those
who are ready on the dance floor.

~H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Belief

Those who say it can't be done
are usually interrupted by others doing it.

~Joel A. Barker

Relaxing

The time to relax

is when you don't have time for it.

~Sidney J. Harris

When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear.

~Zen saying

You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger…
Let a man overcome anger by love.

~Buddah

We develop through experience.
Therefore, hardships and misfortunes challenge us.
It is in overcoming mistakes
that we touch the song of life.

~Beatrice Wood

Sacred Contracts
Our personal and spiritual growth benefit
others around us. We learn, amoung other things,
that we are here to help each other.

~Carolyn Myss

Mistakes

Even a mistake may turn out to be
the one thing necessary
to a worthwhile achievement.

~Henry Ford

Truly, it is in the darkness
that ones finds the light,
so when we are in sorrow,
then this light is nearest
to all of us.

~Meister Eckart

Friends are angels in disguise.

~Anonymous

Satisfaction

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

~Margaret Thatcher

One should learn to sail in all winds.

~Italian proverb

It is not so much what we do.
But what we think about it.

~Meister Erkhart

Behind every diversity lies a hidden possibility.

~Sufi saying

Gratitude transforms and heals from within.

~Rev. Mark Vierra

I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it.

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."

~Anonymous

Love
If it is your time,
love will track you down like a cruise missile.

~Lynda Barry

Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

~Luke 6:37

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