Inspirational Quotes

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

~ Mark Twain

I leave his house feeling blissed. It is not the same feeling like when you get a present from someone, you buy things you desire, or you receive good news. It is something intrinsic that stems from solicitude, which triggers your conscience to carry out something good - in my case, helping Mr Mario. That is how righteousness works. It does not only give pleasure to the receiver (of good action), but to the giver as well.

~ Aishah Madadiy

How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?

~ John C. Havens

We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim.

~ S.e. Cupp

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values.

~ Charles J. Chaput

The germ of creation lies in violence.

~ Rudolfo Anaya

Not one person on earth is immune to crime and trauma.

~ Shahla Khan

CRUEL HARVEST by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a compelling, riveting, unforgetable memoir that will keep you turning the pages. Published by Thomas Nelson and due for release August 2012. Kidnapped from an orphanage Frances is dragged across the country working in the fields. Youtubefrangrubb to see video book trailer.

~ Fran Elizabeth Grubb

Sometimes a smile is all that is needed to change a person’s day and it cost me nothing to give.

~ If I Wake

A beautiful heart, a beautiful smile.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

While we wait for good things to happen for ourselves, we can do good things for other people.

~ David Rangel

A smile is the expression of ecstasy of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

In the morning I drink a glass of sunshine to brighten my heart. I smile to spread the light of life.

~ Debasish Mridha

Sometimes you have to smile to keep from crying.

~ Devon Ashley

To smile pleasantly is to own the moment fully.To think pleasantly is to enjoy the moment fully.

~ Debasish Mridha

Be a smile on someone's lips.

~ Debasish Mridha

One Smile makes two Smiles and two makes many Smiles so keep Smiling :) :).

~ Bhago

Black,The death of an old habit in order for anew journey to start. The dark cloudsdisappeared, chased away by the brilliant shine of your smile. So that I had the courage to be me once again…~Riley

~ Ottilie Weber

A smile is the most beautiful colour in the world.

~ Xingyun

We all smiled because it was the truth: Living did take a lot more guts than giving up.

~ Brendan Halpin

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a joke, but then again it's not, especially if you're a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way...

~ Lance Armstrong

One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today.

~ Gail Thackray

My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.

~ Jennifer Skiff

We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.

~ Paul Newman

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

~ Tara Brach

Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy.

~ Allan Lokos

To forgive does not mean to forget.

~ Allan Lokos

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.

~ Kentetsu Takamori

By incorporating him (Buddha) into the domain of Hindu traditions, and by depicting him as a Hindu sage who was a glorious incarnation of Lord Vishnu, the Brahmins attempted to secure their position of authority in the society.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It’s said that the Buddha’s enlightenment is great than that of a traveler setting out, in the same proportion as the heavens are bigger than what can be seen of them through the eye of a needle. But in both cases, what you see is the sky.

~ Matthieu Ricard

But even though there´s no more hope, again there´s no need to harm yourself, despite your feeling as if there´s no ground beneath you and no choice in any direction. But when we do let go, how wonderful. We discover that the darkness is actually full of light.

~ Jakusho Kwong

Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?Benedict

~ Tricia Walker

We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that’s death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn’t have any fresh air. There’s no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience.

~ Pema Chödrön

Love where there is no reason to love

~ Sangharakshita

The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

~ Suman Jyoty Bhante

It is better to know oneself than know to others. So not find fault others see first in yourself. When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

~ Suman Jyoty Bhante

Stars on the sky, stars on the ground. It's hard to tell where the sky ends and the earth begins.

~ Jennifer Niven

If you feel alone, and if your heart is pure and your eyes still shine with the wonder of a child's, perhaps as you read these pages you'll find that the stars are smiling on you once more, that you can hear them as though they were five hundred million little bells.

~ A.g. Roemmers

And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.

~ Sarah J. Maas

And maybe the only reason we have to fall back down to grow again is the same cause for the sun to rise and sink: our stars need time to shine at night to heal, to heal.

~ Anonymous