All Quotes By Tag: Inspiration

“There will always be judgment. There will always be people telling you how to live. It’s your choice to change for other people or to change for yourself.”

“When you surrender, when you let go, when you Just Be, you are granted the best seats in the theatre of Life. From here, you watch thedrama unfold. But you are not in it. You are not ofit. You Just Are.”

“Do not wait to become a master to begin; begin to become a master.”

“You can’t plan the perfect life, you can only live your best life.”

“I would tell someone who’s battling cancer to write down the five toten things that you look forward to doing with the rest of your life. In other words, your future should be the focus. For example, ‘I want to see my grandchildren,’ or ‘I want to take that trip.’ You’ve got to find something to look forward to that will give you strength. You want it to draw you like a magnet. If you don’t try to self-motivate yourself through positive thoughts, cancer will win because it’s not easily defeated.”

“In my case, the stats that were being quoted to me were not about me personally. I’m not a stat, I’m a person. I considered myself a ‘stat breaker.”

“The eye of a cat is like a door to another world – full of wonders, discoveries and adventure”

“Die Natur zu zerstören und die Umwelt zu vergiften ist einfach. Die Erde zu retten fast schon unmöglich.”

“Today, when I look my students in the eyes, all I see are constellations.If you take the time to connect the dots,You can plot the true shape of their genius —Shining in their darkest hour.”

“When you’re a coach or athlete and you win a championship, you realize that the championship was really a work-in-progress. What you went through during the pre-season, in the regular-season and then during the post-season enabled you to win a title. I treated the stages of my cancer treatment as the phases of a championship season, and it kept me on track to accomplishing my ultimate goal.”

“One of the things that can help people with cancer is having something that you really look forward to doing, so that you can focus on that while the treatments are going on. I guess it’s like saying, ‘I have unfinished business left before I die.”

“The suffering of anyone else is the suffering of ourselves. And to understand that as an idea is one thing, but to develop the ability to feel it and believe it is another – and it is dangerous, and it is risky, because that is a lot of suffering to take in. It is a lot of pain to feel. Most of us, including myself, are probably not capable of feeling one tiny fraction of 1% of the world’s suffering. But we must try to go there.”

“Shouldn’t we be trying to change the things that are making us anxious instead of trying to learn how to cope?”

“Awaken me, O my soul, to life’s greatest JOYS…that I may share them…in some small way—so that others may find them and share them also; for TRUE JOY and REAL PEACE go hand-in-hand…Awaken me, O my soul.”

“Stop expecting your kids to chase their dreams, respect themselves, forgive themselves, love themselves… if they spent a lifetime watching you do the opposite for yourself.”