All Quotes By Tag: Inspiration

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

“Love is the absence of judgment.”

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”

“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.”

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

“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.”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I’d look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I’d just feel a prayer.”