Favorite Inspiring Quotes - Spiritual, Philosophical
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
― Bob Marley
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake (Auguries of Innocence)
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu
“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu (Tao Te Ching)
“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet In Heaven)
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller
“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
― Paulo Coelho (The Zahir)
“Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Anything that annoys you is for teaching you patience.
Anyone who abandons you is for teaching you how to stand up on your own two feet.
Anything that angers you is for teaching you forgiveness and compassion.
Anything that has power over you is for teaching you how to take your power back.
Anything you hate is for teaching you unconditional love.
Anything you fear is for teaching you courage to overcome your fear.
Anything you can’t control is for teaching you how to let go and trust the Universe”
― Jackson Kiddard
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
― Alan W. Watts
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― Francis of Assisi (The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi)
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
― Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon
“Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.”
― Amit Ray (Meditation: Insights and Inspirations)
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
― Jalaluddin Rumi
“Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”
― Helen Keller
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
― Albert Einstein
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.”
― Henry Ford
“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends and Influence People)
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou (Letter to My Daughter)
“Nobody can hurt me (spiritually) without my permission.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis
“God has no religion.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
