Inspiring thoughts and quotes:
The following is a random list of quotations and thoughts that I find inspiring, comforting, and thought provoking. I have done my very best to be accurate in crediting the appropriate source of the quote, because I want to give proper credit where it is due. In some instances, I only have the name of the person who shared the citation with me.
“Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you”…..Jesus Christ
“You can’t change the past, you can only create the future”…..Matt Rodney
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened”….Dr. Suess
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting”………
J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
Quote inscribed on a Nazi camp wall…”I believe in the sun when it’s not shining, love when I’m alone, God when He’s silent”
“The point is not whether you get to heaven, it’s who you take with you”….Kim Wixson
“God never promised it would be an easy life, but it’s a beautiful life”…..Father Daniel Corkery
“Life is a journey, not a destination”…..Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You are the great great grandparent of your great great grandchildren”…..Eddy Rodney
“Everyone needs reminders that the fact of their being on this earth is important and that each life changes everything”……Marge Kennedy
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today”…..James Dean
“It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear….it’s like being between trapezes. It’s like Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There’s nothing to hold on to”…..Marilyn Monroe
“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become love. That is the mystery”….Katherine Mansfield
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it!”….Mother Teresa
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart”….Helen Keller
“People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway. If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.”….Mother Teresa
“When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us.”……Helen Keller
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.”….Helen Keller
“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.”….Rick Warren
“Humans are amphibians-half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.”….C.S. Lewis
“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”……C.S. Lewis
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of-throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”…..C.S. Lewis
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”……C.S. Lewis
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”…..C.S. Lewis
“You can make anything by writing.”….C.S. Lewis
“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”…C.S. Lewis
“When you don’t have anything, then you have everything.”….Mother Teresa
“Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.”….Mother Teresa
“Work without love is slavery.”…..Mother Teresa
“Jesus said to love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.”….
Mother Teresa
“He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.”….Bion
“When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name- He marks- not that you won or lost-but how you played the game.”….Grantland Rice”