Inspirations

Does anyone have any motivational or inspirational quotes or thoughts to share—

Here's mine...

The fundamental way to make a slave is through deprivation; you take away what he is and is his and replace it with another idea of who you want him to be.

- Molefi Kete Asante

One more

Who are you really?
Who are you when nobody is looking That is the Real you.

- T.D. Jakes

er..just do it? lol.LuZ

"Who are you when nobody is looking That is the Real you"

Who are you when no one is lookin? like me a private person and sometime perv!LOL

I have no idea why this inspires me, but anyway......

'I was only in a childish way connected to the established order;
I was terrified of oysters and glanced distrustfully at guardsmen;
And not a grain of my soul owes anything to that world of power, however much I was tortured trying to be someone else.'
Mandelstam

or - I saw the world of power through a child's eyes - oysters frightened me. I looked bashfully at the sentries.

I like the first translation better - anything by mandelstam i find inspiring.

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all." ~Helen Keller

Who said "Life is a stage and we are merely the players"... ?? (VERY TRUE)

Shakespeare.......He also said, "There is nothing good or bad, but THINKING makes it so."

The more I THINK about it the more true this is.... VERY true.. It's also sometimes the things you fear the most, will happen to you not so? What do you call that?

FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real.

Think about this....our thoughts create our actions, our actions then create our lives, therefore...what we think is what we are and what we become.

We are very powerful creatures who do not know the unlimited powers that our mind contains. Hmmm.....just some thoughts to ponder.

hhmmmm......sounds like you haven't really experienced fear - where your body acts independently to you mind and no amount of positive thinking can stop it.

I can understand applying your post to anxiety, however i think sometimes people are inclined to underestimate the all-consuming qualities of fear.

Sweet as the rose that died last year
is the rose that is born today.

-Cosmo Monkhouse,A Dead March

on the theme of roses:

the moment of the rose and the moment of the yew tree are of equal duration - ts elliot

You mean forever!!!

I like that last one about the rose.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the begining of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
-Benedict De Spinoza

Love and fear cannot exist at the same time.

... if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

24, I hope you don't mind, I was finishing out your quote.

oh no...I don't mind at all although I would rather be loved than feared.....to each their own, huh?

"An idea is something that won't work unless you do." ~Thomas Edison

24,
I agree also, I'd rather be loved than feared, but hey, I was just finishing out the quote.

We do not dare things that are hard,
Things are hard because who do not dare.

nice quote 66!

i think i'd rather be feared than loved - actually i don't know - either one works in its own context - but then fear is such an integral part of love anyway - the whole transgressing of boundaries etc.

On the theme of daring (my favourite captain sisco quote):

fortune favours the bold.

sisko!

"Be BOLD and mighty forces will come to your aid"

I do not remember the original author of this quote but I do remember Anthony Hopkins quoting it.....

Take a Chance... Leap and the net will appear or you shall learn to fly.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

-Unknown

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt, Citizen in a Republic (April 23, 1910)

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard:
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights;
Whatever stirs this mortal frame...
All are but ministers of Love, and feed His sacred flame."

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

(sorry...I have lots of favorites...lol)