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Inspirational Love Quotes

“Real love is selfless. We do continual acts of kindness to make the way easier for our loved ones.”
Harold Klemp

“The capability to love is the most noble of all qualities of Soul, for to love is a greater ability than to rule over one's fellow-man.”
Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad

“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.”
Charles Morgan

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
Eric Fromm

“Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.”
Kahlil Gibran

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.”
Malagasy Proverb

“Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you?”
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

“For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.”
~Rosemonde Gerard

“Forget love - I'd rather fall in chocolate!”
Sandra J. Dykes

“Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly.”
Proverb

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”
Peter Ustinov

“Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”
Mignon McLaughlin

“Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.”
Boethius

“Who, being loved, is poor?”
Oscar Wilde

“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.”
Laurence Marks

“A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.”
Frank A. Clark

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert Heinlein

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
Edgar Allan Poe

“The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”
Mignon McLaughlin

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
Jean Anouilh

“A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn’t put there to stay -
Love isn’t love
'Til you give it away.”
Oscar Hammerstein

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
Henry Van Dyke

“It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.”
John Bulwer

“If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.”
Cher

“Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.”
Ursula K. Le Guin

“Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it has done too little.”
Hannah More

“Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”
David Byrne

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
Zora Neale Hurston


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Busy Life Quotes

“Yes, people are busy every day creating new karma for themselves. The reason is they overreact to every slight... Grace and respect are two signs of a mature spiritual individual, whatever his religion or belief.”
Harold Klemp

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
Confucius

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.”
John Lennon

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
Lao Tzu

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.”
Jane Austen

“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.”
William Faulkner

“We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.”
Sue Grafton

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
Socrates

“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.”
Rabindranath Tagore

“Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed.”
Chuck Palahniuk

“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plough your anger and your energy into something positive.”
Lee Iacocca

“No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.”
Mary Kay Ash

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
Thomas Alva Edison

“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.”
Erich Fromm

“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.”
Spanish Proverb

“While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.”
St. Francis de Sales

“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business.”
William J. H. Boetcker


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Inspirational Worry Quotes

“Fear drives away love. Without love, there is no surrender of all our inner cares and worries to the Mahanta (our inner guide).”
Harold Klemp

“Worry is a misuse of imagination.”
Dan Zadra

“Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.”
Anon

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

“Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.”
Benjamin Franklin

“If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.”
Dale Carnegie

“I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.”
Charlie Brown (Charles Schulz)

“Troubles are a lot like people - they grow bigger if you nurse them.”
Anon

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
E. Joseph Cossman

“I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number.”
Edith Armstrong

“You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time. “
Pat Schroeder

“Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.”
Glenn Turner

“Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.”
Nelson DeMille

“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.”
Swedish Proverb

“Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.”
Edward Everett Hale

“That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.”
Chinese Proverb

“Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.“
Deng Ming-Dao

“You can never worry your way to enlightenment.”
Terri Guillemets

“There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry... Yesterday and Tomorrow.”
Robert Jones Burdette

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”
John Lubbock

“As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.”
Julius Caesar

“I refuse to be burdened by vague worries. If something wants to worry me, it will have to make itself clear.”
Robert Brault,

“Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.”
 Mignon McLaughlin

“How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
Arthur Somers Roche

“We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.”
Etty Hillesum

“There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them.”
Josh Billings

“Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.”
John Dryden

“Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.”
Anon

“Real difficulties can be overcome, it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”
Theodore N. Vail

“No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.”
George MacDonald

“Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.”
Robert Eliot

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Coincidence and Destiny Quotes

”When we work from the Soul consciousness, we can shape our own destiny.” 
Harold Klemp

“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.”
Emma Bull

“Coincidences are spiritual puns.”
G. K. Chesterton

“Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.”
Jawaharlal Nehru

“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”
Auric Goldfinger

“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.”
Albert Einstein

“Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, so. What did you think?”
Steven Wright

“Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of.”
Robert Brault

“A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
Jean de La Fontaine

“Stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not!”
Anon

“Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.”
Alva Noto

“Every single moment is a coincidence.”
Doug Coupland

“Happiness is always a coincidence.”
Jose Bergamin

“Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without exaggeration that the method is one of the essential tools of the modern nuclear physicist.”
Walther Bothe

“We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.”
David Richo

“Coincidences mean you're on the right path.”
Simon Van Booy

“The probability of a certain set of circumstances coming together in a meaningful (or tragic) way is so low that it simply cannot be considered mere coincidence.” 
V.C. King

“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.”
Deepak Chopra

“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.”
Anatole France

“As soon as we notice that certain types of events ‘like’ to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a ‘science’ of meaningful coincidences.”
Marie Louise von Franz

“There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us mere accident springs form the deepest source of destiny.”
Friedrich Schiller

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Enemy and Friend Inspirational Quotes

“Enemies and friends act like spiritual coaches. They round out the rough spots on Soul's unfoldment. The Mahanta (inner spiritual guide) teaches through others. So pay careful attention when sparks fly, because some important things in you – perhaps courage or forgiveness – needs some polish.”
Harold Klemp

“As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.”
Diogenes

“Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.”
Christina of Sweden

“No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend, and there are many more of these than one would suspect.”
William Saroyan

“Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.”
Mike Tyson

“Keep your friends close - hold your enemies closer”
Arabian Proverb

“Tell nothing to thy friend which thy enemy may not know”
Danish Proverb

“Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.”
Henry Fielding

“We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.”
Cleobulus

“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.”
Walt Whitman

“Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“WORDS can confer strength; they can drain it off; Words can gain friends; they can turn them into enemies; words can elevate or lower the individual. One must learn the habit of making one's words sweet, soft, and pleasant.”
Atharva Veda

“It pays to know the enemy, not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.”
Margaret Thatcher

“Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you.
Fear not your friends, for they can only betray you.
Fear only the indifferent,
who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth.”
Edward Yashinsky

“A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.”
Eric Hoffer

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

“He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Never explain -- your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.”
Elbert Hubbard

“Hear not ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy.”
Benjamin Franklin

“I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

“Wealth is both an enemy and a friend.”
Nepal Proverb

“We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.”
Jean Paul Richter

“Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde

“It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.”
Buddha

“You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks”
Eskimo Proverb

“A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have”
Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational Problem quotes

“Remember, earth is a school. Soul (you) is here to learn how to become more like God’s pure qualities of love. We learn most from our troubles, not always from the good times.”
Harold Klemp

“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
Henry Ford

“Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.”
Anon

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach

“When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.”
Anthony J. D'Angelo

“The man who has done his best has done everything.”
Charles M. Schwab

“To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.”
Jo Coudert

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”
John Steinbeck

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”
Robert Fulghum

“The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.” 
Anon

“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
Theodore Rubin

“Every path hath a puddle.”
 George Herbert

“There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.”
Michel de Montaigne

“It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.”
Ashleigh Brilliant

“Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.”
Norman Vincent Peale

“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”
Anon

“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
Duke Ellington

“What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.”
Olin Miller

“Problems are messages.”
Shakti Gawain

“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”
Henry Ward Beecher

“Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.”
Hugh Miller

“The darkest hour has only sixty minutes.”
Morris Mandel

“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”
Confucius

“The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.”
Anon

“God gave burdens, also shoulders.”
Yiddish Proverb

“Problems are the price you pay for progress.”
Branch Rickey

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates

“God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.”
John Aughey


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How to overcome the Fear of Death

Thought for the week

The fear of death is part of life for most people. Death is an unknown aspect of life and because we don’t know how the process works, we fear it. It is something to be avoided and we regularly run away from it, so we never get the opportunity to examine it and understand the process.

Now that we are living in this life it requires a lot of commitment to survive. There is a lot going on, such as keeping ourselves fed, having somewhere safe to sleep and rest, having a way of getting by in life such as a job, getting through relationships, learning a skill, learning how life works, developing friends and family.

Spiritual side of life
It is hard enough to survive in this world without having to think of what happens at the end of it. After we’ve done a bit of research into the spiritual side of life and the reason for our existence, we begin to see that life is there to distract us from our inner side. The objective of the physical life is to occupy us with physical things such as our physical survival, the pursuit of food, money, sex or entertainment. If all our attention is on the outer life, it means we won’t make progress and discover things about our inner or spiritual side. We will remain like animals locked in this physical world with the possibilities of exploring our beautiful inner world neglected.

Getting into our inner world is not hard but it does take discipline. The outer world will conspire to prevent us from going there by throwing stumbling blocks in our way such as:
Impatience in the perceived lack of immediate results
Our mind’s logical criticism of any results that do occur.
Situations arise which need to be attended to immediately
Other people criticise us or mock our efforts

Evidence of life after death
Once we begin to explore our inner side and to examine the process of death we begin to discover some evidence of life after death, such as:
Souls who have left this life and visit us in our dreams.
Our own dreams where we visit wonderful places and people.
The everyday repetition of birth and death of people, animals, plants in the world around us.
Life has a beginning and an end. Death is part of life, we are born so that we can experience life and complete it by dying.
We have lived many lives and died at the end of them all.

What will happen when we die
Let’s try and see what will happen when we die. Here’s an exercise to help us go there.
Picture yourself dead, laid out on a bed or even in a coffin. You are just observing the scene. There may be a doctor or nurse there to confirm your physical death. There may be family and friends by your side. What are reactions of the people around your dead body? How do you feel about your own passing? You realise that all your worldly possessions, such as cloths, house, car, money, food, the things you’ve collected over the years, are all useless to you now. You can do nothing with them. You may try to comfort some of the people who are upset and emotional about your death. Take about five or ten minutes to play with this scene, then come back and continue reading this article.
Close your eyes, picture yourself dead…

The Director
Now that we are back in the physical world reading this article, how do we feel about death? Has the fear subsided a little? As we observed the scene of our death, there were two parts of ourselves in the scene. Us, the observer and our now dead physical body. Our dead body was not us, it was just a prop in the scene we were observing. We were the Soul overseeing the event. We were like the director of the movie we were creating. This is similar to what will actually happen when we do die. We leave our body and move into our inner worlds.

As Soul we may be able to visit our family and friends shortly after we have died but we will then move into our inner world to take up a more permanent residence there. This is the world of our dreams and imagination. When we sleep and drift into our dreams, we venture into our inner worlds. During sleep our body is dead to the physical world but we as Soul are alive in our inner world. We just need to become more aware of our dreams so that we become acquainted with our inner worlds before we actually move there permanently.

Dementia or hallucinations
Many older people who are close to death are often thought to have hallucinations or to suffer from dementia, when they begin to speak about things happening in their inner world. The dementia or hallucinations are part of their preparation to moving on. They are organising their inner world so they can move there. They loose the distinction between their inner and outer world so their conversations can be confusing to us. We who are listening to them in the outer physical world do not know what they are talking about.

Loosing our fear of death is not going to happen just because we have read an article like this. Our upbringing and culture focuses our attention on the physical world, proclaiming it as the only reality. In recent times there have been many enlightened writers leading us towards a realisation that there is more to life than the physical world. Shaking off this fear of death takes time. It is buried deep within us and it takes time to dig it out and let the light of understanding wash it away.

Expose our fear of death
To help us bring this fear into the light, in this article above we have
Evidence of life after death.
The exercise to see what will happen when we die.
Insights into why we may fail in our search.

By examining these concepts and discovering the truth in them for ourselves, we will begin to slowly uncover and expose our fear of death. If we keep one of the concepts in mind for a few days, contemplating on it, researching it and discussing it, we will begin to realise its truth. We then move on to the next concept that appeals to us and investigate it thoroughly. Eventually we will get to the point where we realise that we now understand the process and our fear of death is washed away in the light of our realisation.

Wishing you a release from the fear of death and a life of love and blessings.

*Ed Parkinson

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Fear of Death Quotes

“Please be assured that your loved ones will meet you on the other side, so there's no reason to hold on to your fear (of death). If you'll keep in mind that love and love alone is the reason for living, it will calm your heart and free you from your worries.”
Harold Klemp

“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.”
Francis Beaumont

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear... And when it is gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear is gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
Frank Herbert

“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”
Buddha

“Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.”
G. Gordon Liddy

“Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.”
Tecumseh

“It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom and the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.”
Horace

“Courage leads to heaven; fear to death”
Seneca

“No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.”
Plato

“When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death.”
Tom Robbins

“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”
David Sarnoff

“I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.”
 Jean Giraudoux

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark Twain

“Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.”
Henry Van Dyke

“He who doesn't fear death dies only once.”
Giovanni Falcone

“People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were travelling abroad.”
Marcel Proust

“Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me.
The Carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality”
Emily Dickinson

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”
Ashley Montagu

“God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.”
John Donne

“Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.”
Socrates

“Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”
Susan Ertz

“Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor.”
Homer

“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
J.K. Rowling

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Gift of Life Quotes

“Many people don’t realise that this lifetime is a rare opportunity… It’s a precious lifetime for every Soul who is here… We’ve come to solve the mystery of ourselves, the mystery of Soul – who we are. And it’s a wonderful journey.”
Harold Klemp

“You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.”
Desmond Tutu

“The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you.”
Kendall Hailey,

“Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in.”
Dennis P. Costea, Jr.

“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
Tony Robbins

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
Voltaire

“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.”
Jim Rohn

“Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.”
Richard Bach

“Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.”
Mike Ditka

“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.”
Walter Anderson

“What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.”
Ralph Marston

“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.”
Hubert H. Humphrey

"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.” 
Gilda Radner

“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.”
Rose Kennedy

“Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.”
Boris Pasternak

“Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.”
Freeman Dyson

“This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.”
Prem Rawat

“Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the "good life" we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach


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Inspirations to live in the moment

“When God calls, are you listening? Learn to recognize how you are in the grasp of divine love every moment of every day.”
Harold Klemp

“Living in the moment, yesterday is farther away than it used to be. And, so is tomorrow. They both matter less.”
Jan Denise

“Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.”
Dwight L. Moody

“To improve the golden moments of opportunity and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of living”
Samuel Johnson

“All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.”
Erma Bombeck

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
George Bernard Shaw

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
Buddha

“Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment.”
Sarah Brightman

“To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.”
Jack Kornfield

“A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.”
Herbert Spencer

“Feeling down? Remember… now isn’t forever?”
Noetic Alchemy

“All these places have their moments - with lovers and friends - I still can recall some are dead and some are living - in my life I've loved them all.”
John Lennon

“Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.”
Denis Waitley

“To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort.”
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.”
Freya Stark

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson


“One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.”
Michael Cibenko

“If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.”
Anon

“Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.”
Cherokee Indian Proverb

“I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.”
Jeb Dickerson

“The living moment is everything.”
D.H. Lawrence

“Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?”
Goldie Hawn

“Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.”
Jean Cocteau

“Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.”
André Gide

“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
Abraham Maslow

“We have no right to ask when sorrow comes, "Why did this happen to me?" unless we ask the same question for every moment of happiness that comes our way.”
Author Unknown

“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.”
Erich Fromm


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Give Love Quotes

“Real love is selfless. We do continual acts of kindness to make the way easier for your loved ones. By giving love, we become magnets of love.”
Harold Klemp

“Kindness in giving creates love.”
Lao Tzu

“We've got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it's love that gives you the strength.”
Drew Barrymore

“The love we give away is the only love we keep.”
Elbert Hubbard

“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”
Mother Teresa

“This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

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

“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
Kahlil Gibran

“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”
Thomas á Kempis


“The only gift is a portion of thyself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.”
Marianne Williamson

“If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine.”
Anon

“Do not be afraid of showing your affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy, than by service; love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.”
John Lubbock

“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”
Rachel Naomi Remen

“What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”
Eleanor Powell

“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you’?“
William A. Ward

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”
Jean Anouilh


“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.”
 Babatunde Olatunji
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“My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, both are infinite.”
William Shakespeare

“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“A smile costs nothing but gives much.
It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give.
It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.
None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it.
Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away.
Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.”
Anon

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Love Yourself Quotes

“Love others more. Then loving oneself just happens.”
Harold Klemp

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.”
 Anon

“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”
Dr. Seuss

“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
Michel de Montaigne

“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
Andrew Carnegie

“If you must love your neighbour as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbour.”
Nicholas de Chamfort

“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.”
Sonya Friedman

“Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be.”
Karen Ravn

“No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.”
William Ellery Channing,

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”
Alan Alda

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
Anna Quindlen

“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
St. Augustine


“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”
Clifton Fadiman


“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
Nelson Mandela

“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
Buddha

“Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.”
Tom O'Connor


“In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.”
André Gide

“Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.”
Oscar Wilde

“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
Erich Fromm

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
Judy Garland

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”
Harvey Fierstein

“Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine.”
James Poland


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Journey Quotes

“Journey of Soul; The life cycles of man, nations and planets through which Soul must pass in order to perfect Itself and return to Its heavenly home.”
Harold Klemp

“I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter.”

Susan M. Watkins

“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
Bob Moawad

“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.”
Lillian Smith

“Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.”
Laurens van der Post

“A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.”
Anon

“The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.”
Edward Abbey

“Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.”
William Golding

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
Kenji Miyazawa

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.”
Dutch Proverb

“Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Proverb

“The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.”
Teresa of Avila

“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”
Don Williams, Jr.

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”
Greg Anderson

“Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.”
Erich Fromm

“To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.”
Chinese Proverbs

“Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.”
Alex Noble

“A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.”
Tim Cahill

“When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.”
Japanese Proverb

“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
  Matsuo Basho

“You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.”
Richard Bach

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
John Steinbeck



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Good Thoughts Quotes

“Opposition and problems are part of life. They compel the traveller to develop randomity and common sense along the footpath to spiritual liberation.”
Harold Klemp

“The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.”
Norman Vincent Peale

“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”
Herm Albright

“Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.”
Anthony J. D'Angelo

“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”
Oscar Wilde

"These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact" which is a reminder to me that the good life starts with a decision. It doesn't just happen that life becomes great. The more you cultivate the belief that life is an adventure, the more you'll experience it this way.”
William James

“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.”
Persian Proverb

“If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.”
Cavett Robert

“It's so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to.”
Annie Gottlier

“Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.”
Hubert Humphrey

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
Winston Churchill

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn".
Harriet Beecher

“Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.”
Anon

“There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.”
Robert Brault

“The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
Roald Dahl

“To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
George Santayana

“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Francesca Reigler

“If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.”
Mary Engelbreit

“So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.”
The Eagles

“I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party!”
Betsy Cañas Garmon

“The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.”
Foster's Law

“Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

“Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.”
Bill Meyer

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Inner Peace Quotes

“No two people are alike. Each has an agreement with life that is unlike any other. Learn love, patience and grace, because they are the way to find harmony. Finding inner peace is a big part of your spiritual life.”
Harold Klemp

“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”
St. Francis de Sales

“As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.”
Dalai Lama

“Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you'll have more success than you could possibly have imagined.”
Roger Caras

“My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.”
Dave Barry

“Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Eternal Inner Peace has to be cultivated daily.”
Delphine-Gay de Girardin

“World peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it”
Peace Pilgrim

“One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.”
Tenzin Gyatso

“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”
Gerald Jampolsky

“People are born for different tasks, but in order to survive every one requires the same nourishment; inner peace.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

“Develop the inner vision and the habit of listening to the inner Voice; and you are assured of unshakable Peace and infinite Joy.”
Atharva Veda

“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick

“If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.”
Ajahn Chan

"For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe."
Larry Eisenberg

"Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment."
Anon

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
Marcus Aurelius

"Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake."
Paramahansa Yogananda


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Difficulties and Problem Quotes

“Those people who have spiritual success don’t say “Oh, no!” and fall down when a problem comes up. They look to see the reason or lesson behind it. They ask the Mahanta (inner guide), “What can I learn from it? How has it made me stronger?” ”
Harold Klemp

“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.”
Anon

“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.”
Horace

Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better.”
Anon

“Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for.”
 Stanislaus I

“Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.”
Rainer Maria Rilke

“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.”
Lucy Larcom

“God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them.”
John Aughey

“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
William Shakespeare

“But ne'er the rose without the thorn.”
Robert Herrick

“Bygone troubles are good to tell.”
Yiddish Proverb

“The cold is a good counsellor, but it is cold.”
Antonio Porchia

“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
Bertrand Russell

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.”
Truman Capote

“Problems are the price you pay for progress.”
Branch Rickey

“Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.”
Seneca

“The brook would lose its song if you removed the rocks.”
Fred Beck

“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”
Harry Crews

“When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.”
Mignon McLaughlin

“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.”
Confucius

“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Henry David Thoreau



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Peace of Mind Quotes

“Happiness is not a matter of how your outer life appears to someone else. Happiness is a state of consciousness.”
 Harold Klemp 

“It boggles my mind that someone can see life breathed into a baby, watch the grass die and then come to life again, see leaves fall and watch the rebirth of a tree, or gaze on any of the majestic splendor that is this earth and not be overpowered by the presence of an Almighty God!”
Bill McCartney

“Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.”
Buddha

“Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach

“When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.”
Gerald Jampolsky

“When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.”
Abdullah Ibrahim

“When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.”
George Harrison

“Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.”
David Sarnoff

“No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind.”
 Arnold Bennett

“ Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest.”
 Robert Brault

“Be careful of your thoughts, they may become words at any moment.”
Iara Gassen

“Men are not prisoners of fate, but prisoners of their own minds.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.”
Latin Proverb

“The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

“To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
 Chuang Tzŭ

“It is sweet to let the mind unbend on occasion.”
Horace

“No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.”
Terry Josephson


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Inspirational Dream Quotes

“As you put your body to rest, you (Soul) awaken in the Atma Sarup, the Soul body. You are now free to roam in the fields of eternity, beyond the shadow of death. This is part of the spiritual freedom spoken of in Eckankar.”
Harold Klemp

“Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.”
Julia Cameron

“Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earth.”
William Ellery Channing

“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
Swami Vivekananda

“Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming -- the echo of God on the human wall!”
Victor Hugo

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.”
Anais Nin

“The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.”
Ashleigh Brilliant

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”
Dale Carnegie

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day. Such is the salutation to the dawn.”
Sanskrit Proverb

“It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.”
 Bette Midler

“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.”
Calvin & Hobbes

“When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?”
Rene Descartes

“Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask.”
Fox Mulder

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
T.E. Lawrence

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.”
Edgar Allan Poe

“Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.”
Kahlil Gibran

“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes

“For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.”
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

“I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
Robert Francis Kennedy

“We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.”
Susan Taylor


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Love in Life Quotes

“The Law of Love states: to get love you must give love.”
Harold Klemp

“Knowledge can bring many things, for knowledge comes from mind expansion, but the consciousness of the heart brings love, and love brings all things.”
Paul Twitchell

“Every man must first seek to give love if he expects to receive it. He must give it under every circumstance – even though he is abused, mistreated, and given unnecessary hardships in this world.”
Shariyat Ki Sugmad

“When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.”
Anon

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.”
Dr. Seuss

“Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching.”
Randall G Leighton

“There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved.”
George Sand

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln

“Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius

“There is no remedy for love than to love more.”
Henry David Thoreau

“Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Love is the beauty of the soul.”
Saint Augustine

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.”
Charles Dickens

“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
Ambrose Bierce

“Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.”
Anon

“What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
Johnny Depp

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”
William Shakespeare

“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.”
Maya Angelou

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Oscar Wilde

“You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”
Henry Drummond

“Life, love, and laughter - what priceless gifts to give our children.”
Phylis Campbell Dryden

“Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.”
Soren Kierkegaard

“Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
Victor Hugo


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Alone Quotes 2

“All of us must make dozens and dozens of which way now? decisions at important crossroads during the course of many lifetimes. But at the end of the road is the Mahanta (Inner Guide), who receives all with great joy. And we’re never alone from that moment on.”
Sri Harold Klemp

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”
Orson Welles

“All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation to everything else.”
Buddha

“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau

“One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.”
Thomas Jefferson

“It is far better to be alone than to wish you were.”
Ann Landers

“To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.”
Benjamin Franklin

“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
Audrey Hepburn

“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”
Jean de la Bruyere

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
Mother Teresa

“The doer alone learneth.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.”
Marilyn Monroe

“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”
Laurence Sterne

“Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
Confuciu

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”
Blaise Pascal

“If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
George Carlin

“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”
Plato

“Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

“Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.”
Voltaire

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
George Washington

“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.”
Chanakya

“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.”
Albert Camus

“Spend some time alone every day.”
Dalai Lama

These quotes are not alone, there are lots more inspirational ones on the Spiritual Inspirations page.