"INSPIRATION"
"Be real, genuine, and authentic. That way there can be no threat; you are beyond judgment. It's safe to be defenseless."
Copyright © 2004 Simon Heighwaya
"The Real never dies, the unReal never lived" - Nisgardatta Maharaj
"Nothing Real can be threatened, Nothing unReal exists" - A Course In Miracles
"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. "
Kahlil Gibran
"Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
To all mankind:
"May we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth..."
From an episode of Star Trek --- Submitted by Lenny Schmidt --- Iowa
"There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides."
John Stuart Mill
"Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble."
Frank Tyger
"It is during your most troubled and saddest times in your life that you begin to see the real 'you' and discover the real person within you. That's when you begin to feel desperate, not knowing where to look for answers and whom to turn to. That's when you'll find God."
Copyright © 2004 Somching Leivang
I wrote this when I was weighed down by loneliness, when I had to leave another school where I had a reallyhard time making friends and adjusting. I got weaker in my studies and I developed a complex. Then I foundGod and realized that He could be the best friend I ever knew.
"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
Isak Dinesen
"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
Richard Bach
"Smelling a newborn's soft skin, hearing an infant's babble, a toddler's small voice, adolescent tales, positive songs, or elderly praise, restores youth."
Copyright © 2004 Kelly Cannon
If feeling old or wasted, just read this quote to feel better. It works for me.
"The first duty of love is to listen."
Paul Tillich
"There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk."
Henrick Ibsen
"Live every sunrise like it's your first.
See every sunset like it's your last."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by L. Newcombe --- United Kingdom
"If you can't fly, then run.
If you can't run, then walk.
If you can't walk, then crawl.
But whatever you do, keep moving."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier."
Mother Teresa
"Sometimes we search for things we desire all over, search for true love in people far away from us. But it happens that things or love is present, so close to us, that we could even have taken it by hand. We never notice it. Why? Because maybe Allah wants us to experience things before giving us those things we need."
Written in 2004 by A. Saleem --- Pakistan
"Hope is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes strongly, has within him the gift of miracles."
Samuel Smiles
"God, grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right, even though I think it is hopeless."
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz
"The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by K.H. --- Kansas
No matter what is going on in your life, happiness can always be found.
"Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it."
Robert H. Schuller
"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of hell and a hell of heaven."
John Milton
"As I walked towards the Light, I realized that my true place in this world was within the Darkness; and soon my purpose became clear. I was to help others escape from the Darkness, so that they too could find their way home."
Copyright © 2004 Chris Langford
This quote was written because a close friend of mine was going through the same thing that I had gone through 3 years earlier. I figured that if I could make her understand why I was here, she would eventually reach to me for help.
"Fire is the test of gold: adversity, of strong men."
Seneca
"One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error."
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"Never place a period where God has placed a comma."
Author Unknown --- Submitted by Elisabeth M. --- Michigan
"The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs... and begin to act accordingly."
Shakti Gawain
"Toleration is the best religion."
Victor Hugo
"I now realize that God and the universe are always here for us
it is us who turn away from them."
Copyright © 2004 M.L. Lopez
"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."
Henry Beecher
"Looking back, we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings."
Dan Millman --- Submitted by Bernadette Ballezza --- New York