Image of Charles Dickens
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
- Charles Dickens
Image of George Shinn
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
- George Shinn
Collection: Motivational
Image of Gabrielle Roth
Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.
- Gabrielle Roth
Collection: Hurt
Image of Maria Montessori
We discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being.
- Maria Montessori
Collection: Education
Image of Elie Saab
Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.
- Elie Saab
Collection: Confidence
Image of Jiddu Krishnamurti
Is there a thinker apart from thought?
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Collection: Thinker
Image of Pope John Paul II
Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
- Pope John Paul II
Collection: Men
Image of David Steindl-Rast
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
- David Steindl-Rast
Collection: Gratitude
Image of Ayn Rand
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?
- Ayn Rand
Collection: Money
Image of Nikola Tesla
I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.
- Nikola Tesla
Collection: Lamps
Image of Neville Goddard
Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting a wonderful new job. That imaginal act now goes forward and you will encounter this pleasant experience in the future.
- Neville Goddard
Collection: Jobs
Image of Rick Warren
The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.
- Rick Warren
Collection: Anxiety
Image of Sean Stephenson
You make a new life by making new choices.
- Sean Stephenson
Collection: Choices
Image of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Collection: Intelligent
Image of Joseph Campbell
The ultimate dragon is within you, it is your ego clamping you down.
- Joseph Campbell
Collection: Knowing Who You Are
Image of Louis Kahn
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
- Louis Kahn
Collection: Architecture
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Image of Stephen Chow
If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.
- Stephen Chow
Collection: Giving Up
Image of Eckhart Tolle
Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.
- Eckhart Tolle
Collection: Joy
Image of Swami Vivekananda
Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.
- Swami Vivekananda
Collection: Goal
Image of Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.
- Aristotle
Collection: Mind
Image of Biz Stone
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.
- Biz Stone
Collection: Inspiring
Image of Robert M. Pirsig
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
- Robert M. Pirsig
Image of Friedrich Nietzsche
And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Collection: Awake
Image of Witness Lee
Only when we live, walk, behave, and have our being altogether in our spirit, not in our natural man, are we in the kingdom of God and, in reality, are the kingdom of God.
- Witness Lee
Collection: Reality
Image of Nicole Kidman
If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.
- Nicole Kidman
Collection: Passion
Image of Arthur C. Clarke
Space is what stops everything from happening in the same place.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Collection: Space
Image of Mark Cuban
Everyone has ideas. The first step is to learn more about your industry than anyone in the world. Otherwise there is a good chance that the lady that knows it better than you is going to kick your ass. Then you just have to go for it. No excuses. Just work your ass off.
- Mark Cuban
Collection: Ideas
Image of Franz Kafka
Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.
- Franz Kafka
Collection: Love Is
Image of Thomas Aquinas
The light of faith makes us see what we believe.
- Thomas Aquinas
Collection: Believe
Image of David Brin
The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.
- David Brin
Collection: Inspirational
Image of Malcolm X
Only the mistakes were mine.
- Malcolm X
Collection: Mistake
Image of Neville Goddard
Use your imagination lovingly on behalf of another.
- Neville Goddard
Collection: Positive
Image of Morrie Schwartz
Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.
- Morrie Schwartz
Collection: Love
Image of Soren Kierkegaard
I must find a truth that is true for me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Collection: Happiness
Image of John C. Maxwell
There are no half-hearted champions.
- John C. Maxwell
Collection: Champion
Image of R. A. Torrey
Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.
- R. A. Torrey
Collection: Christian
Image of Robert Frost
I’m not a teacher, but an awakener.
- Robert Frost
Collection: Education
Image of Erich Fromm
Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.
- Erich Fromm
Collection: Love
Image of Fred Rogers
Play is really the work of childhood.
- Fred Rogers
Collection: Play
Image of Beth Moore
I don’t want any of the things that I fear to happen, but this I know, if they do, my God will take care of me.
- Beth Moore
Collection: Care
Image of Maria Montessori
Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.
- Maria Montessori
Collection: Maturity
Image of Rumi
Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.
- Rumi
Collection: Eye
Image of Oscar Wilde
Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
- Oscar Wilde
Collection: Perseverance
Image of Brian Tracy
If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.
- Brian Tracy
Collection: Ifs
Image of Zig Ziglar
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and Start being positive about what could go right.
- Zig Ziglar
Collection: Thinking Right
Image of Dean Karnazes
There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.
- Dean Karnazes
Collection: Running
Image of Indra Nooyi
The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.
- Indra Nooyi
Collection: Helping Others
Image of James Anthony Froude
Mistakes are often the best teachers.
- James Anthony Froude
Collection: Teacher