Inspirational Quotes

Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.

~ Lisa Bloom

Feel-good books were ones you could put down with a smile on your face, books that made you think the world was a little crazier, stranger, and more beautiful when you looked up from them.

~ Katarina Bivald

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

~ A.d. Posey

The more you read, the more you write, and the more you free yourself to do so, the better writer you will become.

~ A.d. Posey

Cry while writing it, and readers will cry while reading it.

~ A.d. Posey

Reading sparks writing.

~ A.d. Posey

How you feel after reading something indicates not what you’ve read but where you are at.

~ A.d. Posey

Reading opens up other pockets of the mind.

~ A.d. Posey

You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

~ Ramakrishna

To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been ... and always were.

~ Neale Donald Walsch

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

~ Eckhart Tolle

As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.

~ Jack Kornfield

The more one pleases generally, the less one pleases profoundly.

~ Krister Stendahl

The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.

~ Nikolai A. Berdyaev

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

~ Billy Graham

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?

~ Christopher Paolini

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents...

~ Douglas Wilson

No ideology can help to create a new worldor a new mind or a new human being --because ideological orientation itselfis the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries.Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought creates prejudices; thought itself cannot bridge them. That's why all ideologies fail.Now man must learn to live without ideologiesreligious, political or otherwise. When the mind is not tethered to any ideology, it is free to move to new understandings. And in that freedom flowers all that is good and all that is beautiful.

~ Osho

Through the reciprocation of energy, always, and every time, we will get exactly what we put out there to others. Like Karma, whatever we do will indefinitely come back to us in some way shape or form.When goodness is given, it is likely to returned.When you support someone, you will be supported.When you Love, you will be Loved.If you give someone your last dollar, someone will help you equally.This is the law of the universe. What selfless characteristics do you portray to benefit your reality? Expand.

~ Will Barnes

Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Usually, we believe that our pain is a misfortune that needs to be fixed, but in fact, all pain (physical, mental, and emotional) is a necessary step towards becoming conscious.

~ Mada Eliza Dalian

Lead by example, not by instruction.

~ Jared Matthew Kessler

If a man crosses a riverand an empty boat collides with his own skiff,Even though he be bad tempered manHe will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the boat,He will shout at him to steer clear.If the shout is not heard, he will shout again, and yet again, and begin cursing.And all because someone is in the boat.Yet if the boat were empty,He would not be shouting, and not angry.If you can empty your own boatCrossing the river of the world,No one will oppose you, No one will seek to harm you

~ Zhuangzi

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.

~ Anne Lamott

As long as I live, so long do I learn.

~ Ramakrishna

Often, people build stories in their mind which have no basis in the contours of reality. Those which build these images, are building such images which are based on their relatively limited sense of understanding about the particular subject or person. This is a fill in the blank reality, which often manifests itself into the hearts and the minds of those who have a fill in the blank mindset, not the person with the here said reality.The universe is designed in a way that reflects itself, just like a mirror, showing you exactly who you are to yourself, not who others are. Your largest and most concealed insecurities have their way of presenting themselves to you in a fashion that is relative to your self designed way of communication.This short writing is a reminder that your preconceived notions on a particular subject or person, are a construct of your inner mind and emotional-relational well being and not of others. This is one of the largest fundamental truths in which you must have large insight to carefully watch who and what you massacre with your personal thoughts.Having a keen sense of control on this subject will lead you to enlightenment in many platforms of life.

~ Will Barnes

You don't have to place your hand on Mary's heart to get strength and consolation and rescue, and all the other things we need to get through life. You can place it right here on your own heart. Your own heart.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

~ Sam Keen

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm,Without looking for the traces I may have left;A cuckoo's song beckons me to return home;Hearing this, I tilt my head to seeWho has told me to turn back;But do not ask me where I am going,As I travel in this limitless world,Where every step I take is my home.

~ Dōgen

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to your nevertheless,And filter and fibre your blood.Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged,Missing me one place, search another,I stop somewhere waiting for you.

~ Walt Whitman

We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface.

~ Paulo Coelho

Begin again as often as you need to in order to stay on track spiritually...

~ Elizabeth Funderbirk

For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.

~ Anonymous

In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by the thoughts and emotions that which you harbor. Expand.

~ Will Barnes

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

~ Harper Lee

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

~ Oswald Chambers

There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life.

~ John H. Groberg

Integrity is the sound follow through of your heart, and an important part in the process of manifesting what it is that you aspire to. If you say that you are going to do something, do it. If you fail to complete the task at hand, or fulfill a promise you made, you are not operating at the right frequency. Don't lie to yourself and to others, follow through. Complete yourself, Expand your consciousness.

~ Will Barnes