Inspirational

*Authors are unknown, unless otherwise noted.

Enjoy the little things... one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, Why not?
~ George Bernard Shaw

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
~ Edgar Allen Poe

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.
~ Bette Davis

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
~ Friedrich von Schiller

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
~ William Dement

We need men who can dream of things that never were.
~ John F. Kennedy

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
~ Anatole France

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

I dream, therefore I become.
~ Cheryl Renee Grossman

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
~ Oprah Winfrey

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow...I still have a dream.
~ Martin Luther King

Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
~ Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
~ Johann Goethe

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

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
~ Lester R. Bittel

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
~ Marcell Proust

Every Human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
~ Orison Swett Marden

Dream, dream, dream.....
~ The Everly Brothers

Nothing happens unless first we dream.
~Carl Sandburg

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
~Victor Hugo

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
~Tom Stoppard

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
~Orison Swett Marden

One moment of time is more valuable than a thousand pieces of gold.
~Korean Proverb

Life isn't about finding yourself; life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw

We shall light a candle of understanding in our hearts which shall not be put out.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be.  Now put foundations under them.
~Thoreau

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.  If you can dream it, you can become it.

See! The good lies so near.  Only learn to seize good fortune for good fortune's always here.
~Goethe

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
~Thomas Henry Huxley

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
What is essential is invisible to the eye.
~Antoine de Saint Exupery

To be happy: Don't do whatever you like; like whatever you do.

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

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
~Goethe

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
~Thomas Jefferson

To know is nothing at all,
To imagine is everything.
~Anatole France Thibault

Nothing is so strong as gentleness; nothing so gentle as real strength.

Bloom where you are planted.

Life ~ put your heart in it.

Neglect not the gift that is in thee.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
~Marcel Proust

If there's anything half so much fun as being alive, I'd like to know what it is.
~Mary Engelbreit

Time is not measured by clocks, but by moments.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum.
~Sir Walter Scott

To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle.
~Walt Whitman

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
~Chamfort

There's absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush.
~Robert Frost

There are no coincidences.  All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

I am interested in this world, in this life, not some other world or future life.
~Jawaharlal Nehru

I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirm the worth of life as an end in itself.
~Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.

Life is 10% of what happens to you, and 90% of
how you respond to it.

Life is very short and very uncertain; let us spend it as well as we can.
~Samuel Johnson

Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
~Carl Schurz

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
~Henry Miller

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~William Jennings Bryan

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else you will have succeeded.
~Maya Angelou

We are what we think.  All that we are arises with our thoughts.  With our thoughts, we make the world.
~Buddha

We are forever joined with all that came before us and all of that which follows.

It is the smallest and the simplest of all things that matter most of all.

Do not go where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

For all things that run and jump, crawl and swim and fly, we thank you Lord.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
~Helen Keller

Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not its presence.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck

The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared.
~ Lloyd John Ogilvie

There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
~ C.S. Lewis

Maybe when the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us.

Maybe it is true that we don't know what we have got until we lose it, but it is also true that we don't know what we have been missing until it arrives.

Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you are the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.

May your feet take you where your heart dreams to go.

The uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future. You are destined for greatness. Enjoy your journey and remember to have fun.

Happiness is not a destination.  It is a method of life.
~Burton Hill

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
~Helen Keller

Logic will get you from A to B; imagination will take you everywhere.
~Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
~Phillips Brooks

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
~Rabindranath Tagore

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
~Buddha

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. 
~Buddha

Lead me, guide me, walk beside me.
~ Naomi Ward Randall

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

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived... is to have succeeded 
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
~Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey

Success isn't always about big achievements. Often, it's the little
things that count - laughter, finding the best in others, leaving the world a bit better.

May there always be work for your hands to do,
may your purse always hold a coin or two.
May the sun always shine on your windowpane,
may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you,
may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
~ Irish Blessing

My Wish for You
Quiet strolls on moonlit nights,
a playground's endless laughter,
Blooming roses in the spring,
The glow the morning after,
Walking barefoot in the grass,
a poem that makes you cry,
The feel of silk upon your skin,
an eagle when it flies.
Love songs on the radio,
old couples holding hands,
Newborn kittens nursing,
enthusiastic fans.
Sitting on a porch swing,
sipping lemonade,
Admiring the beauty
in all that God has made.
Watching for a shooting star,
a breeze that cools things down,
The first snow of the winter,
a night out on the town.
Little acts of kindness,
a loving word or two,
Simple things to treasure,
these things I wish for you!

Go- Not knowing where.
Bring - Not knowing what.
The path is long, the way unknown.
~A Russian Fairy Tale

Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine
~Buddha

Sit
Rest
Work.
Alone with yourself,
Never weary.
On the edge of the forest
Live joyfully,
Without desire.
~Buddha

We shall not cease from exploring,
And the end of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
~T.S. Eliot