Inspirational Quotes

Well,’ you may ask, ‘how may I know when I am in love?’. . . George Q. Morris [who later became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, gave this reply]: ‘My mother once said that if you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, who inspires you to do your best, and to make the most of yourself, such a young woman is worthy of your love and is awakening love in your heart.

~ David O. Mckay

Friendship is thinking of the other person first.

~ George Alexiou

To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

~ George Santayana

It is not as much about who you used to be, as it is about who you choose to be.

~ Sanhita Baruah

Our life is like a land journey, too even and easy and dull over long distances across the plains, too hard and painful up the steep grades; but, on the summits of the mountain, you have a magnificent view--and feel exalted--and your eyes are full of happy tears--and you want to sing--and wish you had wings! And then--you can't stay there, but must continue your journey--you begin climbing down the other side, so busy with your footholds that your summit experience is forgotten.

~ Lloyd C. Douglas

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

~ Thisuri Wanniarachchi

You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.

~ George Alexiou

Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go… you are a part of everything.

~ Steve Maraboli

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

~ Groucho Marx

Stop wasting your time looking for the key to happiness… the door is open and unlocked… just walk through it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness.

~ Zhuangzi

All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.

~ Landon Parham

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

~ Timothy Findley

The secret to happiness is the journey, not the destination.

~ Claire Chilton

The greatest love stories are not those in which love is only spoken, but those in which it is acted upon.

~ Steve Maraboli

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.

~ George Alexiou

The key to ultimate happiness and fulfillment lies within our own transformation. The more we learn and grow and evolve as individuals, the more we will find happiness and satisfaction in relationships, work and life.

~ Kristi Bowman

The process of discovering your fearless self is of refinement, not adding. The best way to reconnect with your freedom is to look at the rules you have that govern your freedom.

~ Steve Maraboli

How would your life be different if...You decided to give freely, love fully, and play feverously? Let today be the day...You free yourself from the conditioned rules that limit your happiness and dilute the beautiful life experience. Have fun. Give - Love - Play!

~ Steve Maraboli

You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

~ Jennifer O'neill

Ladies, stress shows on your face. Happiness is the true beauty weapon. ( Kym Douglas / Cindy Pearlman, 2006)

~ Susan Sarandon

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

~ James Patrick Mcdonald

You are the point of origin for everything in your world: you set the standard for yourself.

~ Steve Maraboli

We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love.

~ Steve Maraboli

You would not be here TODAY if YESTERDAY was your defining moment. LIVE THIS DAY and move towards your dreams.

~ Steve Maraboli

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

~ Meryl Streep

To be happy, you have to risk being unhappy.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

(the whole world is at thethroat of the world,everybody feels angry,short-changed, cheated,everybody is despondent,disillusioned.)I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards ofhappiness.

~ Charles Bukowski

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable.

~ Primo Levi

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

~ Mohammed Naseehu Ali

Like love, like talent, like any other virtue, like anything else in this life, happiness needs to be nurtured - this is the truth of the whole matter.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.

~ Steve Maraboli

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

~ Jodi Picoult

Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.

~ Karen Maezen Miller

Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

She was like the sun, She knew her place in the world - She would shine again regardless of all the storms and changeable weather She wouldn't adjust her purpose for things that pass.

~ Nikki Rowe

Happiness comes in many forms — in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else’s dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It’s okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.

~ Lucas Scott