Check out our inspirational quotes below – under each area you’ll find 10 quotes from our quotes database to enjoy.
- Reclaim Your Balance & Vitality!
- Get More Confidence & Authenticity!
- Love Your Feelings & Emotions!
- Why Not Get Organized?
- Happier Love & Relationships
- Start Thinking Bigger!
- Seize Your Vision, Goals & Take Action!
- Grow Your Wisdom & Spirituality
- Boost Your Work & Career!
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1. Balance & Vitality!
There is no such thing as ‘Achieving Balance’ because if you do, it is only momentary. The important thing to know is whether you’re moving ‘towards’ or ‘away from’ Balance.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
The harder you push yourself, the harder your self pushes back
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
Something’s got to give. Don’t let it be you.
My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it.
2. Confidence & Authenticity!
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Too often we don’t trust our own deepest truth; it makes us feel too vulnerable or it seems incongruous with the person we think we are or must be.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
Where do you need to think for yourself? When we begin to cultivate awareness of our thoughts and emotions, we begin to see just how much we live according to other people’s and society’s beliefs and actions. Don’t get upset by this. Just get in touch with how you really think and feel inside and begin to express your authenticity.
3. Feelings & Emotions
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Too often we don’t trust our own deepest truth; it makes us feel too vulnerable or it seems incongruous with the person we think we are or must be.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
The common bond that holds us all together is the question, ‘Do I matter?’
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.
4. Get Organized!
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
If there is anything that I could get you to do, it would be to spend ten to fifteen minutes each morning planning your day. If I could get you to do that, you’d not only scare yourself, you’d intimidate everybody on your block.
The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
5. Love & Relationships!
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are
A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.
If you make a choice that doesn’t please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart – the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.
6. Thinking Bigger!
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.
It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty – it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality.
A Short History of Medicine:
2000 B.C. – “Here, eat this root.”
1000 B.C. – “That root is heathen, say this prayer.”
1850 A.D. – “That prayer is superstition, drink this potion.”
1940 A.D. – “That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill.”
1985 A.D. – “That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic.”
2000 A.D. – “That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root.”
Everything moves in cycles…
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
7. Vision, Goals & Taking Action!
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.
8. Wisdom & Spirituality
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.
It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Be afraid not of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Sometimes happiness is only a sadness away.
9. Work & Career!
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen.
What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said faster horses.
It is not important to be successful at what you undertake, but rather to undertake what you’d like to succeed at.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
Avoid committees and consensus in developing big, distinctive business model advantages. Individuals have big, distinctive ideas; committees and consensus turn big, distinctive ideas into mundane ideas.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly until you learn to do it well.
