Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Top 10 Best Inspirational Quotes

SourcesofInsight.com; Acharya Buddharakkhita (Dhp); Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
The Buddha said it best in the Kalama Sutra inviting us to freely inquire and investigate.
"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality." - artist, icon Frida Kahlo
  
"Mind is the forerunner" - the Buddha
1. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are mind-made. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts, unhappiness follows like the wheel that follows the foot of the draft ox
 
2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are mind-made. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows like one's never-departing shadow. - The Dhammapada

Getting Results the Agile Way (JD)
Inspiration means "to breathe life into." Inspirational words breathe life into things we do. JD has created a collection of some of the most inspirational quotes of all time. Everyone’s here, the Buddha, Lao-Tzu, Emerson, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Twain, Franklin, Churchill, and more. That’s a powerful bunch to have in our corner.  Use their words of wisdom for a lift as we “stand on the shoulders of giants.”

Be Inspired
  1. You'll look back and see change. Eat Pray Love
    Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” — Mary Anne Radmacher
  2. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  3. “I want to be all used up when I die.” — George Bernard Shaw
  4. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” — Napoleon Hill
  5. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.” — George Eliot
  6. “Let him who would move the world, first move himself.” — Socrates
  7. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou
  8. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
  9. “Smile, breathe and go slowly.” — Buddhist monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh
  10. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson More

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