Inspiring Quotes

Daily, a site called, Higher Awareness, sends me words of wisdom and inspiration with valuable quotes and related messages. I look at them as a gift, a lesson to meditate upon to bring more enlightenment and peace into my life. Listed below are some of my favorite quotes that I’ve placed under certain headings; many of them would be appropriate under several of the headings. Please email any great quotes that you feel would be appreciated here and I’ll be sure to add them.

Enjoy.

Personal Power & Responsibility

"Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable."-- Brenda Ueland

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."-- Gandhi

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.”-- Denis Waitley

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you love to do, in order to have what you want."-- Margaret Young

"Follow your bliss."-- Joseph Campbell

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom & Enlightenment  

Enlightenment is ego’s ultimate disappointment."-- Chögyam Trungpa

“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”-- Lao Tzu

"Man loves because he is Love. He seeks Joy, for he is Joy. He thirsts for God for he is composed of God and he cannot exist without Him."-- Sathya Sai Baba

“I want to know the thoughts of God; the rest are details.” -- Albert Einstein

"Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken."-- Jean Jacques Rousseau

"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears."-- Glenn Clark 

"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs."-- Pearl Strachan Hurd

"The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold."-- Bible

Creativity/Imagination/Endless possibilities

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."-- Albert Einstein

"All the people we call ‘geniuses’ are men and women who somehow escaped having to put that curious, wondering child in themselves to sleep."-- Barbara Sher

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."-- Muhammad Ali

Faith

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Truth

"You must speak straight so that your words may go as sunlight to our hearts."-- Cochise

Love

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage."-- Lao Tzu

"It matters not Who you love, Where you love, Why you love, When you love, Or how you love, It matters only that you love."-- John Lennon

“Souls don’t have races or sexes or religions. They are beyond artificial divisions.”-- Brian Weiss

“Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.”-- Eknath Easwaran

"What I want in my life is compassion, a flow between myself and others based on a mutual giving from the heart." -- Marshall B. Rosenberg

Let us be us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust

Success

Successful people tend to generalize about good things, and they consider their mistakes isolated incidents. Less accomplished people tend to do the opposite.  (author ?)

Spirit

"When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left." -- Sufi epigram