Inspirational Quotes II

We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
-T.S. Eliot

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.
-Paramahansa Yogananda

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
-Lao Tzu

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
-George Bernard Shaw

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
-Immanuel Kant

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is.
-Albert Einstein
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
-Christian Nestelle

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
-Charles Peguy
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
-Henry David Thoreau

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
-Maori Proverb

Who was born first, you or the world? As long as you give first place to the world, you are bound by it; once you realize, beyond all trace of doubt, that the world is in you and not you in the world, you are out of it. Of course your body remains in the world and of the world, but you are not deluded by it.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj
Yesterday you were thinking about today because then it was tomorrow; now it is today and you are thinking about tomorrow, and when the tomorrow comes, it will become today-- because anything that exists, exists here and now, it cannot exist otherwise.
-Osho

How do I know about the world? By what is within me.
-Lao Tzu

Man cannot discover new oceans
until he has courage
to lose sight
of the shore.
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You are not a soul,
you are not a mind,
you are not a body.
You are the controller of all three.
-Yogi Bhajan

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?
-Thomas Merton

Whatever we lose
(like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves
we find in the sea.

It is still up to you to choose
to join with truth or with illusion.
But remember that to choose one
is to let go of the other.
-A Course In Miracles

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
-John A. Shedd

Your mind should be in harmony with the functioning of the universe; your body should be in tune with the movement of the universe; body and mind should be bound as one, unified with the activity of the universe.
-Morihei Ueshiba

You are me, and I am you.
Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"?
You cultivate the flower in yourself,
so that I will be beautiful.
I transform the garbage in myself,
so that you will not have to suffer.
-Thich Nhat Hanh

We cannot teach people anything;
we can only help them discover it
within themselves.
-Galileo Galilei

Not being known doesn't stop the truth
from being true.
-Richard Bach
Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

When true self-remembering comes, one does not want to alter oneself, or others; one somehow rises above their weaknesses and one's own. There can be no blame anywhere. One swallows what is, and becomes free.
-Rodney Collin

When we think we're separate, we lose power. Whenever I say 'my,' I have lost power. Power is not my power . . . It is only gainable as a part of the larger whole. Then you communicate with the rest of yourself -- which may be a tree. You, reciprocally, are moved by the universe. Whenever you shut down connectedness, you get depressed . . . It's fearful to know we're connected to everything in the universe, because then we're responsible.
-Glenda Taylor

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.
-Blaise Pascal

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld