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Inspirational Quotes to Live By

Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace
- St Francis of Assisi

Love your enemies.
- Jesus (Matthew 5:44)

Peace is the ultimate blessing.
- Jewish traditional

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Faith is the bird that feels the light
and sings when the dawn is still dark.
- Rabindranath Tagore

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking
only to learn that it is God shaking them.
- Charles West

You just have to have a simple faith.
- Jimmy Carter

Where there is great love,
here are always miracles.
- Willa Cather

 

We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

The brightest stars are those who shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

Now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
- Corinthians 13:13

Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Joy is what happens to us
when we allow ourselves to recognize
ow good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

The will of God will never take you
to where the grace of God will not protect you.
- Anonymous

All that is real is seen with the heart
- Vivian Greene

The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney

What do we live for, if it is not to
make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart

Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Grace defies reason and logic.
- Bono

It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.
- Leo Buscaglia

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert

He who can give thanks for little
will always find he has enough.
- Anonymous

I rest in the light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Let there be peace on earth.
And let it begin with me.
- Jill Jackson Miller

The struggle ends when the gratitude begins.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.
- Henry Drummond

Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
- Katherine Dunham

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are no small acts of kindness.
Every compassionate act makes large the world.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

You are within God. God is within you.
- Peace Pilgrim

We are each of us angels with only one wing,
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
- Lucretius

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

Forgiveness does not change the past,
but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese

Although the world is full of suffering,
it is full also of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller

Be still and know who you are.
- Kirtana

He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore

A happy life consists not in the absence,
but in the mastery of hardships.
- Helen Keller

Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous

The more you praise and celebrate your life,
the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike

Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
- A Course In Miracles

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand
that there is something called mystery.
- Paulo Coelho

Grace isn't just a little prayer you say before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
- Jackie Windspear

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu

Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

You cannot lose your real treasure.
- Osho

You are the Face of God.
- Karen Drucker

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
- The Buddha

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
- Ram Dass

I gather strength from the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I entrust my entire being to the gentle nurture of Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

My Cup Runneth Over - My Life Is Abundant.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Know that unconditional forgiveness
holds immense power to relieve your suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Compassion is the ultimate value in life.
Service is the ultimate action.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Be open to the goodness of life -
even in the midst of apparent adversity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.
May songbirds serenade you every step along the way.
May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.
And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.
- Irish Blessing

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb often quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

Try a new perspective on diversity.
Across the country and around the world,
we are all one.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Today is your day to dance lightly with life,
sing wild songs of adventure,
invite rainbows and butterflies out to play,
soar your spirit, and unfurl your joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

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.
- The Buddha

Drop the sword - for there is but one flesh to wound,
and it is the one flesh of all humankind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy

Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

Today is your day to laugh at life,
laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad,
laugh loud - laugh often,
laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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