Inspiration

What is a blog without a page for inspirations? Though I have written a few in some of my posts, this page will focus on inspiring quotes and poems I have accumulated over the years and those I continually encounter. I will add some of my own, they might not be as good as those of this world’s wonderful thinkers but those that pop up in my head were what made sense to me – at least for that one moment. I’m sure you will find one or two below that will motivate and prompt you into action!

• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Chinese Proverb
• There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. - Beverlu Sills
• The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going. – David Starr Gordon
• With dreams come responsibilities. – Langston Hughes
• The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new places, but in seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust
• The future exists first in Imagination. Then in Will. Then in Reality. – Eve Hubbard
• Live out of your imagination, not your history. – Unknown
• If you are faced with a challenge, don’t give up. It is an opportunity to learn and grow. – Unknown
• What I had that others didn’t was a capacity for sticking to it. – Doris Lessing
• By perseverance, the snail reached the ark. – Charles Spurgeon
• Work inspires inspiration. Keep working. If you succeed, keep working. If you fail, keep working, If you are interested, keep working. If you are bored, keep working. – Michael Crichton
• Today, work harder and move closer to what you want, then see if you feel better about yourself at the end of the day. – Unknown
• One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. – Lucille Ball
• Although the world is full of suffering, it’s full also of the overcoming it. - Helen Keller
• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt
• If all your limitations were suddenly removed, what would you do? If you were able to make absolutely anything happen, what would it be? If there were no challenges standing in your way, where would you go? With absolutely nothing holding you back, what would your life become? Imagine a world with no limitations, and discover who you are in such a world….One by one, the challenges will fade in the distance as you express the limitless vision that is yours to live. – Ralph Marston
• Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.- Napoleon Hill
• Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don’t give up and don’t give in. – Wanda Carter
• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss
• I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work. – Thomas Edison
• Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M. Scott Peck
• We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. – Pogo
• A year from now you may wish you started today. – Karen Lamb
• There are no lost opportunities, only opportunites lost to competition. – Unknown
• Find your place on the planet, dig in and take responsibility from there. – Gary Snyder
• An unused life is an early death. – Anonymous
• And so long as you haven’t experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth. – Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• Life is like riding a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking. – John C. Maxwell
• Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? – Mary Olver in “The Summer Day”
• We have it in our power to begin the world again. – Thomas Paine
• Time is usually wasted in the same way everday. – Paul Meyer
• Intelligent people can always come up with intelligent reasons to do nothing. – Scott Simon
• Procrastination results in wasted time, missed opportunities, poor performance and increased stress. – Author Unknown
• The major causes of procrastination: avoidance, fear and anxiety. – Author Unknown
• The secret of having good ideas is to have a lot of bad ideas, then throw away the bad ones. – Linus Pauling
• Failure is really a matter of conceit. People don’t work hard because, in their conceit, they imagine they’ll succeed without ever making an effort. – Thomas Edison
• Most people believe that they’ll wake up some day and find themselves rich. Actually, they’ve got it half-right, because eventually they do wake up. – Thomas Edison
• It’s right to be content with what you have, but not with what you are. – Author Unknown
• The highest reward for your work is not what you get for it, but what you become by it. – John C. Maxwell
• We’re all bozos on the bus, so we might as well sit back and enjoythe ride. – Wavy Gravy
• When you do something from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy…. – Rumi
• The secret in life is enjoying the passage of time. – Richie Havens
• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.- Unknown
• It isn’t work when you enjoy what you are doing. – (Penned by Anna Ricamora, inspired from similar thoughts from other authors)
• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. – Napoleon HIll
• Behind me is infinite power. Before me is endless possibility. Around me is boundless opportunity. Why should I fear? – Stella Stuart
• If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. – John C. Maxwell
• Insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result. – Unknown
• No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. – Albert Einstein
• In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us. – Rainer Maria Rilke
• Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open. – Rumi
• The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances. – Victor Frankl
• What is not brought to consciousness comes to us as fate. – Carl Jung
• The great epochs of life come when we gain the courage to re-christen our evil as what is best in us. – Friedrich Nietzsche
• Time for a cool change. – The Litlle River Band
• Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes, Turn and face the strain, Ch-changes , Oh look out you rock ‘n rollers…Pretty soon you’re gonna get a little older. – David Bowie
• Change occurs when deeply felt private experiences are given public legitimacy. – Gandhi
• The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of bigger ideas, never returns to its original size. – Oliver Wendell Holmes
• You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. – O.A. Battista
• Success is 99 percent perspiration, and 1 percent inspiration. – John C. Maxwell
• Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Abraham Lincoln
• Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. – Unknown
• Excellence in any art or profession Is attained ONLY by hard and persistent work. – Unknown
• Never believe that you are perfect When a man imagines, even after years of striving That he attained perfection, his decline begins. – Unknown
• He who has never failed – is he who has never tried. – Unknown
• You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. – John C. Maxwell
• I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Stephen Leacock
• Without rest, a man cannot work. Without work, the rest does not give you any benefit. – Abkhasian Proverb
• Success is 99% failure. – Soichiro Honda
• Every day, do something – one or two things – to get closer to your dreams and aspirations. Remember, the key to accomplishing your goals lies in what you do everyday. Every day is one day closer and every action is one step closer to your dreams. – Anna from This Writer’s Delight
• To envision your success, to feel it – always remember to look at the bigger picture. – Anna from This Writer’s Delight
• Success is the absence of fear and inhibition, when everything else is said and done. – Anna from This Writer’s Delight

WHO AM I NOT TO BE?

Our deepest fear is not that we are 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 other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.