Inspirational Quotes Page 2

William Blake
“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”   

Ray Bradbury
"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."

Some Cool Latin Phrases
Polloi men anthropoi eien,         "Be not afraid of growing slowly,
holigoi de andres.                        be afraid only of standing still."

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit.    'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.'

Chinese Proverb
"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

Sex and the City
"Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love, or have babies, or be who we are. After all, seasons change. So do cities. People come into your life and people go. But it's comforting to know the ones you love are always in your heart. And if you're very lucky, a plane ride away."

Nelson Mandela (this one's long, but easily one of my favorites, don't just gloss over it)
“Our deepest fear is not that we inadequate.  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.  We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God.  Your playing small does not serve the world.  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that oher people won’t feel insecure around you.  We were born to make manifest the glory of Got that is within us.  It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.  And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give permission to other people to do the same.  As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

T.S. Elliot
"It's never to late to be what you might have been."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in our own sunshine."

Cinderella
"Impossible things are happening everyday."

Theodore Roosevelt
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."

Carl Jung
"We should never identify ourselves with reason, for man is not, and never will be a creature of reason alone..."

Taoist Proverb
A man leaves the remote village of his birth and travels the wide world. After many years, he returns home. His friends, relatives, and neighbors gather round him and ask, "How is life in the world?'" He replies, "Same as here. It is good for those who know how to live."