INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
EXPLORING
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
EXPLORING
“Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.”
Harold Kushner
KINDNESS
“Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is love to be found in the world.”
Alison Malee
KINDNESS
“One of the greatest things you can do to help others is not just to share and give what you have, but to help them discover what they have within themselves to help themselves.”
Rita Zahara
HELPING OTHERS
“Believe that there's light at the end of the tunnel. Believe that you might be that light for someone else.”
Kobi Yamada
HELPING OTHERS
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”
Fred Rogers
HELPING OTHERS
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
Anne Bradstreet
OPTIMISM
“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities—always see them, for they’re always there.”
Norman Vincent Peale
OPTIMISM
“Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
Jack Layton
OPTIMISM
“Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.”
John Wesley
GIVING
“Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and to make a difference.”
Kevin Heath
GIVING
“Our similarities bring us to a common ground; our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.”
Tom Robbins
COMMON GROUND
“We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.”
Maya Angelou
COMMON GROUND
“It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.”
Dr. Leo Buscaglia
HOPE
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tunes without the words and never stops at all.”
Emily Dickinson
HOPE
“Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. ”
Golda Meir
ACHIEVEMENT
“There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence.”
Michelle Obama
ACHIEVEMENT
“It doesn't matter who you are or where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you.”
Oprah Winfrey
ACHIEVEMENT
“To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.”
Tom Robbins
ACHIEVEMENT
“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lit the flame within us.”
Albert Schweitzer
GRATITUDE
“In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.”
Albert Clarke
GRATITUDE
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.”
Melody Beattie
GRATITUDE
“Charity and love are the same—with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.”
Mother Teresa
CHARITY
“In necessary things, unity; in disputed things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
Richard Baxter
CHARITY
“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion; if you want to be happy, practice compassion. ”
HH The Dalai Lama