Inspirational Quotes
I wish to share all of the quotes that I’ve collected over the years. Some of the scraps of paper are quite thin now and the ink has faded – they are that old. Some I had written on shreds of birch bark and there are a few of my own as well.
Where I haven’t written the author’s name down is because I didn’t have or know it but whoever you are I credit the words solely to you.
There were so many that I tried to organize as best I could but they are in no specific order and so I call on Henry Adams for justification at this time when he quoted:
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit
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Guy Finley:
Ground yourself in the present moment
Pay what you owe……your debts will fade if you will remember what produced them
We are graced by Him in proportion to the amount of love we find in our hearts to present before him
Only when you know who you are not will you know who you really are
If there is suffering in your heart, it is only because you have mistaken an unwanted intruder for a guest
Empty everything out and be at peace
You cannot give what you have not got
If you would like to see yourself in a different life start spending some time there
What is possible for us to become only truly changes when we are willing to see what is impossible for us to continue being – this the secret of letting go
Continue doing what you always have and you will continue receiving what you have always received.
What you have yet to realize is that your blind struggle to win peace for yourself is the disturbance it seeks to end
There is a timeless place within you that no darkness can shatter
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Albert Einstein:
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The secret to creativity is in knowing how to hide your sources.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
I want to know God’s thoughts; the rest are details.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger – who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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God/Bible:
Blessed are those who play; for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
I AM THAT I AM
Let nothing disturb the silence in this moment with you O’Lord
Because you have so little faith, I tell you the truth. If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.
If you miss the sunrise I made for you today, never mind. I will make another one for you tomorrow
The light dwelleth in the darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not.
He that is greatest among you shall be your Servant
Become an artist in living
Live in me and let me express you
Once you turn and become a part of my reality all power is restored unto you
Holy Spirit, Joy Divine, cheer this saddened heart of mine; bid my troubled thoughts be still; with thy peace my spirit fill – Andrew Reed
God, look upon my ingratitude, inconstancy and unfaithfulness. Take my heart for I cannot give it and when you have it, keep it for I cannot keep it for you and save me in spite of myself. Francois de la Mothe Fenelon
“(And) those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed, they will marvel, and (having established in the Kingdom) will reign over all” (The Gospel of Thomas, 2).
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Lester Levenson:
See the source of the mind and you will find your Self
Turn the mind back upon the mind and it will reveal its secrets
Concentrate the mind on one thought and all other thoughts will drop away. Then drop this one thought.
Learn to control the breath and you will automatically control the mind
Surrender the mind to God
Eliminate all objectivity and the mind resolves. Then, there is only subjectivity
Where there is only subject and no object, there the Self is.
Take it for the sweetness that’s in it, not to get out of the bitterness that’s out of it
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Cristina Strenko:
If we cause ourselves pain to get reward is it truly freedom? It’s when we follow the golden choice of our heart that we know freedom
In forgiving ourselves, love knows no larger suppressor than duality. We must think of forgiveness as energy, a frequency of love.
Nature’s purity continually cleanses no matter what suit I wear
On healing: Don’t heel to your ego by healing for your ego
Nature seeks you to heighten your perception
Force yourself to forgive.
Unbounded awareness creates a new life instantly because it already is all space unclouded by time.
Use words that vibrate the highest or loudest (if need be) to create the vibration you want to be.
Have a great day – really? Great is lame when there is an even greater ball of energy in extraordinary
We acquire by giving
Our awareness is the grand palace we live in
Improving your time is not about multi-tasking but being an active participant of the wildness thus preserving humanity
Awareness is all that is, it needs not to be tracked once we become aware of it – the awareness that already permeates us is what teaches us
Watch your thoughts because they are watching and mimicking the energy you are thinking
Connect with Breath
Love stirred emotions
Listen to heart
I listen, He talks, we write and speak to the world sweetly, touching all
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Henry Thoreau:
There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work
Dare to live as though you have all the time in the world, if you want to find what is timeless
Only that day dawns to which we are awake
If men would observe realities only and not allow themselves to be deluded, life would be like a fairy tale
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Bob Proctor:
Replace every doubt with a faith greater than doubt.
Cease permitting your physical world to control your thinking
Any idea can be planted in the mind with repetition of thought empowered by faith and expectancy
Don’t be conformed to the world but be transformed with the renewing of your mind
Those who know the truth learn to love it. Those who love the truth learn to live it.
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Crimson Circle:
Walk like a master to become a master (fake it till you make it)
You cannot imagine the potential of tomorrow in your consciousness today
True rejuvenation is allowing because your light body always knows how to balance itself therefore your physical body will always balance itself
Enlightenment is absolute simplicity
Drama is a distorted reality – get over it
Accept all things as they are
Trust yourself, just, trust yourself
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Movies/books:
If you’re going to do something go all the way or don’t even try
When I meet a wind I cannot fight, I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will – Susanna Kearsley – The Rose Garden
Quietly know you exist and ride life straight to perfect laughter
The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence – Midnight in Paris
Those who wander may not be lost – Lord of the Rings
Go big or go the hell home
The soul sees what truly matters – Susanna Kearsley – Mariana
Some folks lie around doing nothing no matter what it costs them – Into the Wilderness, Sara Donati
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Deepak Chopra on the Law of Detachment from his Seven Universal Laws book:
The more uncertain things seem to be, the more secure I will feel because uncertainty is my path to freedom
Through the wisdom of uncertainty I will find my security
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Seth:
When you don’t know what to do relax and tell yourself that other portions of yourself do know; they will take over. Give yourself some rest
You sit within the miracle of yourselves and ask for signs – it is your inner eyes I would open
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Rumi:
Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart and that depends upon how much he has polished it
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Mas Sajady:
Notice what you notice
Walk the earth from your spirit space
Worry only on one thing – How can I get more connected to pure source?
Change your frequency, change your life
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Miscellaneous authors:
Believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast – queen in Alice in wonderland
Stand behind the wall and accept all things as they are – Crimson circle
Do it at 75% our normal speed – Anthony Robbins this helps you to ‘notice what you notice’ – Mas
He who grasps loses – Lao Tzu
Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter? – Brendon Burchard
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world and that is an idea whose time has come – Victor Hugo
How much longer will you go on letting your energy sleep?
How much longer are you going to stay oblivious of the immensity of yourself? – A Cup of Tea – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
You can change the picture of your life at any time if you only realize that it is simply a portrait of yourself that you have created from an unlimited number of probable ones – Burt Goldman
If we did all things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves – Napolean Hill
Wine is sunlight held together by water – Galileo
I am the wisest man alive because I know one thing and that is that I know nothing – Socrates
We must become the change we want to see – Ghandi
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition – JV Chesterton
Confucious said there are 39 steps to escape and the best one is flight – so I flew
In a dark time the eye begins to see – Theodore Roethke
The stone speaks and I am silent – William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear as it is – infinite. William Blake
When you talk you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something – Jared Sparks
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors – Shakespeare (Macbeth)
When Love came first to Earth, the Spring spread rose beds to receive him – Scottish poet 19th c.
Confine yourself to the present – Aurelius
For a poet, it is always morning in the world – Frost
Leave the sad yesterday’s behind, the past is dead – a romance novel
Come to the edge He said.
They said we are afraid.
Come to the edge He said.
They came, He pushed them and they flew – Guillaome Apollinaire
Before you love, learn to run through snow leaving no footprint – Powys Mathers, Turkish proverb
Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do – Confucious
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being – Goethe
As she thinks so she is; as she continues to think so she remains – Robert Allen
May God give you a song in the night as you find him to be the Lily of the Valley – John Hagee
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Anonymous:
Let go and Let GOD
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause
The lie has speed and the truth has endurance.
Consider and hear me, oh Lord, lighten my eyes; lest I sleep the sleep of death
Thoughts are the noise blanketing the truth
Nothing drags heavier than a big old sack of regret
Listen to your heart to find meaning; notice what brings you emotional contentment
It’s not the things you get but the hearts you touch
Infinity is in the palm of your hand
Don’t believe in miracles, expect them
In our palm, an ordinary stone will sing the siren song of deep and lasting peace.
Count the number of wants a person has in this life and you measure the number of kingdoms between himself and heaven
Let life bring you itself. Welcome it. At each instant it is new, full – untouched and undiminished by any moment before it.
The whole world might be against me but ‘me and God’ always make a majority
Keep your mind on a higher image rather than a lower concern.
In nothing be anxious
Life is ……..Unfinished
Where am I going? How shall I get there? And how will I know I’ve arrived?
Beware the lollipop of mediocrity, lick it once and suck forever.
It’s such a conspiracy that you don’t understand because the world has literally gotten to the point where everybody embraces the same values.
Time has no mercy
Earth laughs in flowers.
Live now, do not wait till tomorrow; gather the roses of life today.
Seize the day – put no trust in the morrow.
The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world, despite its history.
Intend the future, accept the present.
Face the darkness, stare it down and own it.
If you are right your world will be right
He who is hurried cannot walk gracefully
Remember to seek beauty in the past and present
You shall have joy and you shall have power but you will not have both
For every minute that you’re angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness
You must recognize your sovereignty, before you may mount your throne and rule your kingdom
And in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs
You will always gravitate toward that which you, secretly, most love
Can you find the gift behind the suffering?
Hold in your mind what you do want
We must be dreaming while others are driving because if our eyes were open, we would never tolerate where we were being taken.
Worrying is praying for what you don’t want
The will of God will never take you to where the grace of God will not protect you
There are no limits, there are no walls, there is no loss
Remain childlike
Remain in awe – like a child.
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause
Living things pursue life – if we kill earth, we must understand that earth (like any living organism) will issue intuitive calls on behalf of her own wellness.
Imagination is the force that Life uses to know what to create next
If you do not know where you are going, you will end up exactly there.
Sit still my soul; thou at least must not lose thy composure nor thy awareness of the eternal presence of God
You are bigger than the problem
Remember yourself
For the very point of physical existence is that you realize that your thoughts become matter while you are here
What you believe, IS, and becomes real in your experience – there are no other answers – this applies to all areas of your life
You believe what?
Fix your mind upon the highest and the highest you shall be
Nothing happens until something moves
Energy follows thought
Do not abandon your journey
Dominion is your birthright
Remember peace and peace will remember you.
