Inspirational Quotes III

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
-Jimi Hendrix

The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
-Albert Einstein

To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wildflower
hold infinity
in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
-William Blake
Joy is not in things.
It is in us.
-Richard Wagner

Whenever you want to produce something,
do not depend upon the outside source:
go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
-Paramahansa Yogananda

to be yourself-
in a world which is doing its best
night and day
to make you everybody else-
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight
and never stop fighting.
-ee cummings
All serious daring starts from within.
-Eudora Welty

When one tugs at a
single thing in nature,
he finds it attached
to the rest of the world.
-John Muir

Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
-Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is only with the heart one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you feel most alive, find out why,
This is one guest you won't greet twice.
-Kabir

We are not bodies with souls. But souls with bodies.
-Kevin R. Bean
Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
-Richard Bach

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
-Chuang Tzu

To remember oneself means the same thing as to be aware of oneself - I am. It is not a function, not thinking, not feeling; it is a different state of consciousness.
-Ouspensky
The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that
supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The
world is in you and can become known in you, as you.
-Jean Klein

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
-Blaise Pascal

All the true things must change and only that which changes remains true.
-Carl Jung

Love says "I am everything". Wisdom says "I am nothing". Between the two, my life flows.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves
and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
-Huston Smith

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun's out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

A moment's insight is sometimes
worth a life's experience.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke

Expose yourself to your deepest fear;
After that, fear has no power,
And the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free.
-Jim Morrison

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-Anais Nin

The ability to simplify
means to eliminate the unneccessary,
so that the neccessary may speak.
-Hans Hofmann

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.
-Andrew Harvey

To know that you do not know is the best.
To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.
-Lao Tzu

Don't stand by my grave and weep,
for I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond's glint on the snow,
I am sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
Don't stand by my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die.
-Unknown Native American

Dance like no one is watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like no one is listening,
Live like it's heaven on earth.
-William Purkey

The Great Way is not difficult--
Just cease to cherish opinions.
The Third Zen Patriarch

You can have anything you want
if you are willing to give up the belief
that you can't have it.
-Robert Anthony
If the doors of perception were cleansed, all things would appear infinite.
-William Blake

If I accept the sunshine
and warmth,
then I must also accept
the thunder and lightning.
-Kahlil Gibran

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves.
-Carl Jung

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.
-Francois Voltaire

Turn your gaze inward.
Correct yourself and your world will change.
-Kristin Zambucka

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the sea.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A moment's insight is sometimes
worth a life's experience.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke

Expose yourself to your deepest fear;
After that, fear has no power,
And the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.
You are free.
-Jim Morrison

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

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is born as a seed; he can become a flower, he may not. It all depends on you, what you do with yourself; it all depends on you whether you grow or you don´t.
It is your choice-- and each moment the choice has to be faced; each moment you are on the crossroads.
-Osho