Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 29

• The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Teacher, Personality

  "Prophet of Software". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Let us say "Yes" to life and not death. Let us say "Yes" to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols of our time. In a word, let us say "Yes" to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints.

  Pope Francis

  Inspirational, Love Life, Idols

  Pope Francis (2017). “Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Material Existence and the Meaning of Life”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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• When we react to life from the head without joining forces with the heart, it can lead us into childish, inelegant behavior that we don't respect in ourselves. If we get the head in sync with the heart first, we have the power of their teamwork working for us and we can make the changes we know we need to make.

  Doc Childre

  Inspirational, Life, Teamwork

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Love is truly eternal and lasts forever. It is the core of our connection and expression of life.

  Kristine Carlson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Richard Carlson, Kristine Carlson (2007). “An Hour to Live, an Hour to Love: The True Story of the Best Gift Ever Given”, Hyperion

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• Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

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• The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Lovers

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1980). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it.

  Luke Parker

  Inspirational, Doing You, Enjoy

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• Learn to enjoy your own company. You are the one person you can count on living with for the rest of your life.

  Ann Richards

  Inspirational, Rest Of Your Life, Enjoy

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• Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Advice

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.264, OUP Oxford

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  What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Success, Hope

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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• Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more tan anything else in life.

  Conan O'Brien

  Inspirational, Summer, People

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• Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life.

  Rachael Ray

  Inspirational, Stay True, Brands

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• The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Meaning Of Life, Intellect

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• I'll probably be popped off by some loony.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life

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• Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.

  Jane Ellen Harrison

  Inspirational, Life, And Love

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• Triumphant hours are the Lark's
  Who circles skywards from his home each day:
  World's early riser, with bubbling golden song,
  Towards the firmament, guardian of April's gate.

  Dafydd ap Gwilym

  Inspirational, Life, Song

  Dafydd ap Gwilym (1982). “Dafydd Ap Gwilym: A Selection of Poems”

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• Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

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• Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, God

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• No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.331, New World Library

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• I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Self Love, Stories

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Life, Motivational, Encouragement

  Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

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  The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

  Ray Lewis

  Hard Work, Grind, Hardest

  FaceBook post by Ray Lewis from Apr 20, 2015

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• Boiled down to one sentence, my message is the unboundedness of life and the unboundedness of human destiny.

  Freeman Dyson

  Inspirational, Life, Destiny

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• The Law of Attraction states that you will attract to you those things that match your state of being. If you focus on having gratitude for what you do have, you will feel rich, and you will attract more abundance into your life. If you focus on what you don't have, you will send out a message of lack and you will attract more lack into your life.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Law Of Attraction

  Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen (2012). “Chicken Soup for the Soul Unlocking the Secrets to Living Your Dreams”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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