INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
WISDOM
“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”
Paulo Coelho
RESILIENCE
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
William Ellery Channing
RESILIENCE
“We need to remember that circumstances don’t make a person, they reveal a person. ”
Emma Jameson
RESILIENCE
“No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.”
Annie Besant
RESILIENCE
“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
TRUE BEAUTY
“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.”
Ellen DeGeneres
TRUE BEAUTY
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” ”
Hunter S. Thompson
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.”
Rachel Wolchin
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“Practice the art of adventure by breaking the chain of routine, renewing your life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.”
Wilferd A. Peterson
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.”
O.R. Melling
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“Pursue your passion, and everything else will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.”
Gaby Giffords
PASSION
“Happiness can be found in even the darkest of times, if only one remembers to turn on the light.”
J.K. Rowling
OPTIMISM
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
Harry S. Truman
OPTIMISM
“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring. Who, being loved, is poor? ”
Oscar Wilde
LOVE
“How do you spell love? (Piglet) You don't spell love. You feel it. (Winnie-the-Pooh)”
Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
LOVE
“Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have and should have.”
Louis E. Boone
LIVE LIFE
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
Maya Angelou
LIVE LIFE
“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
Diane Ackerman
LIVE LIFE
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one!"”
C.S. Lewis
FRIENDSHIP
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.”
Maya Angelou
EQUALITY
“All men are created equal... with certain unalienable Rights... among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Thomas Jefferson
EQUALITY
“There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. They teach the truth by living it.”
James A. Garfield