INSPIRING THOUGHTS.

• What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other. (George Eliot).
• I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. (Alice Roosevelt Longworth).
• Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. (Ernest Holmes).
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. (Henry David Thoreau). 
• The purpose of our lives is to be happy. (Dalai Lama).
• Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. (Albert Einstein).
• Sleep is the best meditation. (The XIV Dalai Lama).
• Every experience in life has something to teach us, if only we are ready to understand its importance. (Sreeram Manoj Kumar).
• Liberty and Equality are incompatible with each other. Liberty leads to competitive individualism, and therefore breeds inequality. (Mah Kumar). 
• Liberty , Equality and Fraternity is an ideal set out by all evolved and noble souls, but common mortals have to work at it. How much we actually achieve depends on how much sincerity and honesty go into our efforts. (Prem Lal).
• Ancient wisdom proclaims, 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' or the whole world is one big family. What happened to this dream? (Vidya Babla).
• It is true that the world is based on brotherhood. But brotherhood needs sacrifice, and thoughts of doing good for others, unconditionally and selflessly. Brotherhood brings peace and harmony in society and is of a divine nature. (Sanjay Teotia).
• Without a community, we cannot go very far. (Thich Nhat Hanh).
• A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour's. (Richard Whately).
• Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. (Kahlil Gibran).
• I like it when a flower or a tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so heroic. (George Carlin).
• Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. (Marcus Aurelius).
• Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. (Anatole France).
• Open your thoughts to the probability that you are more intuitive than you realise. (Sylvia Clare).
• Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living? (Bob Marley).
• Yesterday is a cancelled cheque. Today is cash on line. Tomorrow is a promisory note. (Hank Stream).
• Mothers love their children, but after marriage when the son starts caring for his wife, the mother does not relish the idea. This is when her true love turns into attachment. The wife loves her husband, but when the husband seemingly cares more for his mother, the wife becomes agitated. This is love turning into possessiveness. Pure love does not have any hint of possessiveness, attachment or jealousy and is without expectation. (Krishnan).
• Love for the Self and love for God is the only thing in this world which will not make you weak at any time. (Sandhya Singh).
• everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. (Carl Jung).
• It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. (Muriel Spark).
• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. (William James).
• Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. (E.W. Howe).
• There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. (Christopher Morley).
• You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. (Maxwell Maltz).
• The first rule of education, in all lands is never to say anything offensive to anyone. (Voltaire).
• The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. (Richard Cecil).
• Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. (Will Durant).
• Knowledge is not given but earned, and character is not granted but cultivated. (Swami Vivekananda).
• Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is beginning of love. (Mother Teresa).
• Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. (Martin Luther King, Jr.).
• Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream. (Kahlil Gibran).
• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. (Aristotle).
• Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. (William Penn).
• Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. (William James).
• Tears of joy are like the summer raindrops pierced by sunbeams. (Hosea Ballou).
• Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted. (John Lennon). 
• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. (Albert Einstein).
• A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love. (Max Muller).
• What is right to be done cannot be done too soon. (Jane Austen).
• He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave. (Matthew Henry).
• I think cinema, movies and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians...A movie is really like a question and when you make it, you get the answer. (Francis Coppola). 
• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. (Leo Tolstoy).
• If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. (Bruce Lee).
• The more people that meet each other, the better it is for all of them. (Fletcher Pratt).
• The first recipe for happiness: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. (Andre Maurois).
• Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. (Norman B. Rice).
• I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in. (John Muir).
• Relax your body, and the rest of you will lighten up. (Haruki Murakami).
• In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. (Terry Pratchet).
• The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do. (B.F. Skinner).
• We live with three thought processes: blind faith, devotion and spirituality. (Siddharth Chandra).
• I am confused when people say, God is everywhere; is omnipresent. I wonder then why we do have to go to temples, mosques, churches and Gurdwaras. (Ved Guliani).
• There is nothing more beautiful than a person whose heart is broken, but still believes in love. (Priya Kumari).
• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. (Aristotle).
• You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. (William Blake).
• As the web issues out of the spider and is withdrawn; as hair grows from the body - even so, the sages say, this universe springs from the deathless Self, the source of life. (Mundaka Upanishad). 
• The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute in all that makes us human. To damage this community is to diminish our own existence. (Father Thomas Berry, eco-theologian). 
• Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. (Kahlil Gibran).
• If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you are doing to it. (Charles de Lint).  
• Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. (George Bernard Shaw).
• There is more to life than increasing its speed. (Gandhiji).
• We do not remember days, we remember moments. (Cesare Pavese).
• Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - relaise it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. (Sai Baba).
• This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. (Shakespeare).
• Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. (Samuel Butler).
• You have enemies? Good. That means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life. (Winston Churchill).
• Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. (Lao Tzu).
• A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. (Jackie Robinson).
• The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. (Audrey Hepburn).
• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. (Sholom Aleichem).
• The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. (Eminem).
• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. (Buddha). 
• Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others'? (Martin Luther King, Jr.).
• Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. (Elie Wiesel).
• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. (Dalai Lama).
• One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. (William Feather).
• Life is really simple; but we insist on making it complicated. (Confucius).
• In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. (Abraham Lincoln).
• Throughout life, people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. (Will Smith).
• If you live long enough, you will make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you will be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. (William J. Clinton).
• I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. (Arthur Rubinstein).
• The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. (Joseph Campbell).
• The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. (William Morris).
• The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. (Anais Nin).
• My life is my message. (Gandhiji).
• You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. (Albert Camus).
• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing and inclusion. (Max de Pree).
• If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. (Bruce Lee).
• A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. (Charles Darwin).
• A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. (G.B. Shaw).
• Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. (Miguel Angel Ruiz).
• The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. (Jimi Hendrex).
• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life, you will have been all of these. (George Washington Carver).
• Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. (Rose Kennedy).
• Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. (Jack Kerouac).
• Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life that you are living. (Bob Marley).
• You are only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. (Walter Hagen).
• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. (Soren Kierkegaard). 
• Beware the barrenness of a busy life. (Socrates).
• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. (Soren Kierkegaard).
• What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. (Ralph Marston).
• Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. (Hans Christian Andersen).
• Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. (Marie Curie).
• When I stand before God at the end of my lie, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me". (Erma Bombeck).
• Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. (John Lennon).
• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. (Mark Twain).
• It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. (Philip Green).
• The only disability in life is a bad attitude. (Scott Hamilton).
• I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. (Rabindranath Tagore).
• Life would be tragic if it weren't funny. (Stephen Hawking).
• Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. (Corita Kent).
• I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. (Audrey Hepburn).
• There are three constants in life...Change, Choice and Principles. (Stephen Covey).
• It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as it was the only one we had. (Elisabeth Kubler - Ross). 
• Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. (Lou Holtz). 
• The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. (Henri Nouwen).
• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. (Harvey Fierstein).
• To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. (John Henry Newman).
• A well-spent day brings happy sleep. (Leonardo da Vinci).
• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. (Gilbert K. Chesterton). 
• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. (Helen Keller).
• When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. (Erna Bombeck).
• Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (Mark Twain).
• Into each life some rain must fall. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
• Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. (Henri Frederic Amiel).
• The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. (Bertrand Russell).
• Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summed away, to leave without regret. (Robert E Lee). 
• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. (Carl Sandburg).
• Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow. (Tom Wilson).
• Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. (Mark Twain).
• We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. (E.M. Forster).
• He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. (Friedrich Nietzsche).
• May you live all the days of your life. (Jonathan Swift).
• Life is a lot like jazz...it's best when you improvise. (George Gershwin).
• The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. (Alfred Adler).