#inspirational

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."

"A pen, a piece of white paper, and an idea can create a new you."

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."

"Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about."

"I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog."This is not a very convincing alibi. He may as well have said, "I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one."

".."I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her.."~E.L.~"

"People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?"

"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."

"Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good."

"If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination"

"People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop."

"Don’t feel shy—kiss. Kiss just to feel the joy of life and to get lost in the beauty of love."

"Be Generous with your Kindness, Compassion & Forgiveness."

"When a bumptious person can’t satiate oneself with an empty praise from others, s/he may go a step further to organize a get-together to bring all people of own nature under a single roof to meet, deliberate, celebrate, collaborate, greet, treat , appreciate or even felicitate one another."

"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?"

"Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying."

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."