Quotes to inspire and reflect

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

One ship sails East, And another West, By the self-same winds that blow, Tis the set of the sails And not the gales, That tells the way we go

Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius. It is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

Just can’t live that negative way . . . make way for the positive day!

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.

A childlike man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle aged habit and convention.

Life is a great adventure, or it is nothing.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

When one treats people with benevolence, justice, and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Believe and your belief will create the fact.

As for me, I know of nothing else but miracles.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

When you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished.

That which is possible is inevitable.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

What we think we become.

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give our thought to the body.

At the center of non-violence stands the principal of love.

Holding onto anger is like holding onto a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

All great achievements require time.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Some men see things as they are and say ‘Why?’ Others dream things that never were and say ‘Why not?’

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves.

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

Man is a universe within himself.

The soul should always stand ajar. Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.

Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct–it’s an art.

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Don’t forget, your history nor your destiny.