13,477 Quotes About Inspiration

The secret of making lasting change is to acknowledge and accept that real change takes time and patience. We didn't get chronically ill overnight. We didn't gain weight in one week or even one month. Good chance, it may take us longer than twenty-one days to overcome whatever we're facing. Whether it's something physical, emotional, spiritual, or a combination, we may need to be realistic in our goals for meaningful change to happen. The first step is getting started!

We must place our hand upon the proverbial hot stove to burn ourselves in order to learn that the stove is hot, and we mustn’t touch it.

Just as it is knownThat an image of one's face is seenDepending on a mirrorBut does not really exist as a face,So the conception of "I" existsDependent on mind and body,But like the image of a faceThe "I" does not at all exist as its own reality.

Harness awareness, and mold your days into what you wish them to be.

Peace is about going deeper in God. It's about trusting him and yielding our worries and fears to the Holy Spirit - who is already at work inside us. It's about placing our focus heavenward instead of fixing our focus on our struggles

Find the beauty and the stories that inspire you and those around you. They will add tremendous value to your work and everyone else’s.

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.

Reading is like travel, allowing you to exit your own life for a bit, and to come back with a renewed, even inspired, perspective.

And more important, all the life-potentialities that we never managed to bring to adult realization, those other portions of ourself, are there; for such golden seeds do not die. If only a portion of that lost totality could be dredged up into the light of day, we should experience a marvelous expansion of our powers, a vivid renewal of life.