“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” Charles Cooley

Quotes on Art and the way of the Artist:

“Art is not a thing; it is a way.” Elbert Hubbard

“Of all lies, art is the least untrue.” Gustave Flaubert quote on art

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.” Anatole France

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.” Gwendolyn Brooks

“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.” David Hockney

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” Salvador Dali quote

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton quotes on Art

“All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.” Eckhart Tolle quotes

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Van Gogh

“This world is but a canvas to our imagination.” Henry David Thoreau quote

“An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.” George Santayana quote

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” James Whistler

“The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it.” Banksy

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” Scott Adams

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” Federico Fellini

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.” Oscar Wilde

“There’s no retirement for an artist, it’s your way of living so there’s no end to it.” Henry Moore

“Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.” Emerson quotes

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?” Emerson quotes

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” Emerson

“The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.” Emerson Quotes

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” Quotes by Emerson

“Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.”  Quotes by Emerson

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” Emerson Quotes

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” Emerson quotes

“In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.” Continue with more Emerson quotes

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Emerson quote

“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints”  Emerson quote

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”  Ralph Waldo Emerson

“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” Quotes by — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To laugh often and love much:
To win respect of intelligent people
And the affection of children;
To earn the approbation of honest critics
And endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To give one’s self;
To leave the world a little better,
Whether by a healthy child,
A garden patch,
Or redeemed social condition;
To have played and laughed with enthusiasm
And sung with exultation;
To know even one life has breathed easier
Because you have lived…
This is to have succeeded.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes

“Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct–it’s an art.” Mae West

“Summer love. Midnight kisses. Shooting stars. Secret wishes.” — Unknown

“When the sun gets hot and the moon gets hazy, good girls go bad, and it gets crazy!” — Unknown

“Summer break.  Where u drink triple, see double, and act single.” — Unknown

“A life without love is like a year without summer.”  Swedish Proverb

“Tears are the summer shower to the soul.” John Donne

“In summer, the song sings itself.”  William Carlos Williams

“If music be the food of love, play on.” ~ William Shakespeare

“In every girls life; there’s a boy she’ll never forget and a summer where it all began.” — Unknown

“There is no “we” in summer. Only ‘u’ and ‘me’.” — Unknown

“Palm trees, ocean breeze, salty air, sun kissed hair. That endless summer, take me there.” — Unknown

“So here’s to all those summer nights when my feet hit the sand and the waves break my fall and all my friends around me out number the stars.” — Unknown

“Summer romances begin for all kinds of reasons, but when all is said and done, they have one thing in common. They’re shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, fleeting glimpse of eternity, and in a flash they’re gone.” — The Notebook

“I never promised you a happy ending.

You never said that you wouldn’t make me cry

But summer love will keep us warm,

Long after our autumn goodbye.” — Unknown

“Summer ’11, let’s make it last forever.” — Unknown

“Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find.” Time Magazine

“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” Muhammad Ali

“All good things are wild and free.” Henry David Thoreau

“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.” Rachel Carson quotes

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.” Khalil Gibran quote

Earth Day Quotes | Mother Earth Quotations

“Take what you can use and let the rest go by” Ken Kesey quote

“I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. “ Frank Lloyd Wright

“The best investment on earth is earth.”  Louis J. Glickman quotes

“The earth is what we all have in common.”  Wendell Barry quotes

Modern technology

Owes ecology

An apology.

~Alan M. Eddison

“We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth’s creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.” Lewis Thomas quote

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river  been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”  – Cree Indian Proverb

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.” Thomas Jefferson

“Opie, you haven’t finished your milk.  We can’t put it back in the cow, you know.”  Aunt Bee Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show

“You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.”  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The ground on which we stand is sacred ground. It is the blood of our ancestors.” Chief Plenty Coups, Crow

“I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.” Unknown

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”  Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator

“…everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.”  Mourning Dove Salish

“We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them.  We say we love trees, yet we cut them down.  And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.“ Unknown

“The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.” William Faulkner quotes

There is pleasure in the pathless woods

There is rapture in the lonely shore

There is society where none intrudes

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but nature more

Lord Byron

“Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being.

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy… But anywhere is the center of the world.” Black Elk -Holy Man of Sioux

Earth Day Quotes & Mother Earth Quotations

Happy Earth Day from EYD

Any positive green recyclable thoughts floating in your mind? I would love to hear from you in my comment section below…. Peace                                 Jonathan

“Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.” Unknown

Life changing quotes –  Change your Life today:

“Change in all things is sweet.” Aristotle

“Life itself is the proper binge.”  Julia Child

“A strong oak is just a nut that stood fast.” unknown

“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”  Tuli Kupferberg

“Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.”  Unknown

“Change yourself, change your fortunes.” – Portuguese Proverb

“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”  Karen Kaiser Clark

“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”  John Wooden

“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.”  Author unknown

“Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”  Abraham Lincoln

“First, say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”  Epictetus

“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.” – Buddha

“Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.” Unknown

“Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.”  Tao Te Ching

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb

”Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.”  Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”  Maria Robinson

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.”   Indian saying

“Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!” Miguel de Cervantes

“Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of things you can’t give up.”  Andy Law

“Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn’t do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.” Florida Scott-Maxwell

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.”   Carl Sandburg

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew.”  Saint Francis de Sales

A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked,”Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?” Muste replied, “Oh, I don’t do it to change the country, I do it so the country won’t change me.”

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”  Nelson Mandela

It’s your mother calling. DON’T KEEP HER ON HOLD!!!

“At 8:30 PM on Saturday 26th March 2011, lights will switch off around the globe for Earth Hour and people will commit to actions that go beyond the hour. With Earth Hour almost upon us, our thoughts are with the people of Japan during this incredibly challenging and sad time for their country.” quoted from Earthhour.org
This post is a gentle reminder to my readers to give a little love to Mother Earth on Saturday. She is all we have – so shut off the lights, plant some green, recycle – find some way to do your part. For more information visit: Earthhour.org

Earth Hour Quotes:

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” ~Native American Proverb

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“After a visit to the beach, it’s hard to believe that we live in a material world.” – Pam Shaw – Earth Hour Quote

“Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.“
~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect”  Chief Seattle, 1855

“”There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.“
~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

“There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.”  Brooke Medicine Eagle

“Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life.” Thomas Alva Edison - Earth Hour Quote

“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.”  Henry David Thoreau

“To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.”  William Blake

If you enjoyed this selection of Earth Hour Quotes, spread the word and join the largest single action by people in history. Earth Hour – At 8:30 – 9:30 PM on Saturday 26th March 2011 . Give Mother Earth some love by sharing this post via email or on your favorite social media site.

Peace…

Jonathan

Valentine’s Day Humor for the heart. It’s that time of year again and I decided to poke a little fun at Cupid and inspire a few laughs with funny Valentine’s day quotes and illustrated photos. I gave EYD a new face-lift and would love some feedback on the design. You can sign into Facebook or Twitter in my comment section and share your thoughts with friends. I hope you enjoy my Funny Valentine’s Day quotes and Illustrated photos… Peace.

“Here’s to love – the only fire for which there is no insurance.” Unknown

‘”The heart has its reasons that reason does not know.”
Pascal

“Love is being stupid together.”
Paul Valery

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
Anonymous

Funny Valentine’s Day quotes and Illustrated photos

“Today is Valentine’s Day. Or, as men like to call it, Extortion day.”
Jay Leno

“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?” ~Lily Tomlin

“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.” ~Oscar Wilde

“Sales ad at a store: ‘You are my one and only’ Valentine’s cards, now on sale: 4 for $5.” ~Unknown

“Once you have loved someone, you’d do anything in the world for them… except love them again.” – Anonymous

“Women like me because I make them laugh. And what is an orgasm, except laughter of the loins?” – Mickey Rooney

“My heart’s in the right place. I know, ‘cuz I hid it there.” – Carrie Fisher

‘Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.’
Thomas Robert Dewar

Love – a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
Author Unknown

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.” – Woody Allen, Love and Death

“The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.” – Chamfort

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Happy New Year from Enlighten Your Day…

I hope you enjoy this selection of New Year’s quotes and photos. Peace – Love and Happy New Year! Each NYE photo links directly to the original source on vi.sualize.us

1. Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown
2. New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday. ~Charles Lamb
3. Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
4. Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
5. A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown
6. No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb
7. An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan
8. Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland
9. The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. ~ Hartley Coleridge
10. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey
11. I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~Anaïs Nin
12. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
13. Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. ~Henry Ward Beecher
14. “Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.” – Eric Zorn
15. New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
16. For last year’s words belong to last year’s language – And next year’s words await another voice. – And to make an end is to make a beginning. ~ T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding
17. We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce
18. Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~Mark Twain
19. The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.  G.K. Chesterton
20. A new oath holds pretty well; but… when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retrying of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885
21. “Another fresh new year is here . . .

Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!”
- William Arthur Ward

Years ago the people of a very successful civilization thought they had all the answers to success. The king called the wisest people in the kingdom together and said, “I want you to put down all the reasons why we are successful. Place them in writing so future generations will be able to read it and duplicate our success.” They worked for approximately two years and came back with the answer, and it consisted of nine volumes.

The ruler looked at it and said, “This is great, but it’s too large.” He then challenged them to simplify their findings. They worked another year and finally narrowed it down to one book. The King said, “That is fine, but it is still to lengthy. Refine it.” They worked another year and finally reported back with their findings, now contained on one page.

The king said, “You have done a great job, but it is still too long. Please reduce our formula for success to the lowest common denominator.” They worked another year and had it down to one paragraph. The King said, “That’s great, but it is still far to complicated. Keep working until everyone understands why we are successful.”

Six months later they came back with their findings confined to one sentence. The king looked at it and said it was absolutely great. If all future generations understood this, they would be in a position to conquer anything. The sentence read, “There ain’t no free lunch,” which says it all.

Story by Lou Holtz

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93 Awesome Inspirational Quotes

“Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than Jewels.” Hazrat Inayat Khan

I hope you enjoy my list 93 awesome inspirational quotes. This handpicked list of favorites is a diverse selection that was slowly compiled over my life. This is no cut & paste job with excess crap. It’s my absolute Favorite Inspirational Quotes. Hope you enjoy and share…

My Top Ten Inspirational Quotes

“No man is free who is not master of himself.”  Epictetus

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

“A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” Bob Dylan

“The appearances of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”  Kahlil Gibran

“First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.”  Epictetus

“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.” Muhammad Ali

“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.” Antoine de Sainte Exupery

“We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.”  Winston Churchill

“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”  Theodore Roosevelt

My next 11 favorite Inspirational quotes:

“Everyday, God gives us the sun – and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything…” Paulo Coelho

“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”  Vince Lombardi

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.”  Tom Krause Inspirational quotes

“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”  Don Miguel Ruiz

“When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself.”  Earl Nightingale

“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.”  Albert Schweitzer

“Hope is the dream of a man awake.” French Proverb

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”   Anais Nin

“Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can.”  Danny Kaye

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”  Abraham Lincoln

“When inspiration does not come to me, I go half way to meet it.” Sigmund Freud

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
– Mark Twain

My next 12 favorite Inspirational quotes:

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. “ Henry David Thoreau

“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.” Aldous Huxley

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” Karen Ravn quotes

“You’re on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.”  Anonymous

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” John Barrymore

“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” Emily Dickinson

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” Agatha Christie

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.” Pamela Vaull Starr Inspirational quote

“Don’t follow your dreams; chase them.”  Richard Dumb

“A rich man is not one who has the most, but one who needs the least.”  Unknown

“It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.”  Hugh Prather

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”  George Elliot

My next 13 favorite Inspiration quotes:

“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.” Henry David Thoreau

“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” Anonymous inspirational quotes

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” Judy Garland

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Mahatma Gandhi

“You gotta dance like nobody’s watching, dream like you will live forever, live like you’re going to die tomorrow and love like it’s never going to hurt.” Meme Grifsters

“One life – a little gleam of time between two eternities.”  Thomas Carlyle

“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”  Tom Krause

“The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”  Seneca

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”  Martin Luther King, Jr Inspirational quotes

“I was never afraid of failure, for I would sooner fail than not be among the best.”  John Keats

“Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.” Democritus

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” Dale Carnegie

“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”  Franklin D. Roosevelt

My next 14 favorite Inspirational quotes:

“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.” Aldous Huxley

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.”  Henry Ward Beecher.

“Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.’ Bernard Meltzer

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Gandhi

“Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.” Leon J. Suenes

“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”  Dale Carnegie

“Character is a diamond that scratches every other stone.” Cyrus A. Bartol

“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”  Joe Namath

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  Albert Einstein

“We make our fortunes, and we call them fate.”  Earl of Beaconsfield

“For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The great and glorious masterpiece of
man is to know how to live to purpose.”  Michel de Montaigne

“Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats.”  A. Branson Alcott

My next 15 favorite Inspirational quotes:

“I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes.” Kahlil Gibran

“Quite often we change jobs, friends and spouses instead of ourselves.” Akbarali H. Jetha

“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.”  St. Clement of Alexandra

“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”  Thornton Wilder

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up some place else.”  Yogi Berra

“What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.” Thomas Sprat

“Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.” Epictetus

“Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don’t look at it and wish you had painted something different.” Unknown

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” Henry David Thoreau

“It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.” Aristotle

“There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.”  Epictetus

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” Albert Einstein

“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.”  Matthew Prior

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt

My final 17 favorite Inspirational quotes:

“To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
“Leave no stone unturned.” Edward Bulwer Lytton

“Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.” Shakti Gawain

“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.”  Dale E. Turner

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.” Aristotle

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” Benjamin Disraeli

“There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.”  Oprah Winfrey

“If your actions inspire others to dream more,
learn more, do more and become more,
you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams

“Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” Harold R. McAlindon

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.” Disraeli

“What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” Vince Lombardi

“May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to bring you joy.” Unknown

“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” Herbert Otto

“Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.”  Benjamin Franklin

“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured”.  Earl Nightingale

If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month — get married.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.

If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”  Chinese proverb

“If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.” W.C. Fields

I hope you enjoyed my Inspirational quotes. Feel free to add any inspirational quotes of your own in my comment section below.

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Internet Zen Haiku

Randomly wandering in cyberspace; I found this Funny Internet Zen Haiku. Unexpectedly, I burst out laughing and instantly realized I was pure E.y.D material.  I decided to do something new and illustrate the quote in a picture for social media purposes. Then the search continued and I found three more proverbs that got the lol go ahead. I hope you enjoy this short illustrated post.

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Student says:
“I am very discouraged
what should I do?”

Master says:
“Encourage others”
Zen Proverb

A samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died.

Hakuin answered:

‘How am I supposed to know?’

‘How do you not know? You’re a Zen master!’ exclaimed the samurai.
‘Yes, but not a dead one,’ Hakuin answered.

“Better to struggle with a sick jackass

than carry the wood by yourself.”  Zen Proverb

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Who, being loved, is poor?   Oscar Wilde

There is no earthly bliss not watered by tears.” Pilipino proverb

“When you are in Love you can’t fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams.” Dr Seuss

“If you understand, things are just as they are: if you do not understand, things are just as they are.” Zen proverbs

“To get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

“For it was not into my ear you whispered But into my heart Twas not my lips you kissed But my soul.” – Judy Garland

“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German Philosopher, Poet

“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” Anais Nin

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”  -  Pablo Picasso

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Anais Nin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anais Nin

“I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”    Anais Nin

“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.”   Anais Nin

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” Anais Nin

“The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings. ” Buddha