Because a little inspiration never hurt anyone

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abe

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”      -Frederick DOUGLAS

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith- and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” –Ephesians 2: 8-10

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set her free.”- MICHELANGELO

“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe, that is when you will succeed.”- Eric Thomas

“What is it that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”- Walt Whitman

“If you change the way you look at things, then the things you look at change.”- Wayne Dyer

“Don’t gain the world to lose your soul.”- Rebelution

“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.”- John Wooden

“Freedom lies in being bold.”- Robert Frost

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”- Ernest Hemmingway

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

“Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.”- Eskimo Legend

“We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ” -Mother Teresa

“Never worry about numbers.  Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you. ” -Mother Teresa

“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley. ” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.” -Ovid

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ” –Confucius

“Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows.” –Nisargadatta Maharaj

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle, or you can live as if everything is a miracle. ” –Albert Einstein

“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’s 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’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
-Marianne Williamson.

“There is no world. There’s only 6 billion understandings of it, and if you change one person’s understanding of it, one person’s understanding of what they’re capable of, one person’s understanding of how much people care about them, one person’s understanding of how powerful an agent of change they can be in this world, you’ve changed the whole thing.”- Susanne Bentley

“Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.”- Charles Swindoll

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”- Charles Dickens

“Greatness is a function first and foremost of conscious choice and discipline. We are not imprisoned by our circumstances. We are freed by our choices and disciples.” – Jim Collins

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”- Stephen Covey

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character- that is the goal of true education.”- MLK, Jr.

“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me.”-Psalms 23

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”- Nelson Mandela

“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”- Booker T. Washington

For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16

Staying alive means staying in touch with your purpose. It means using your skills, your emotions, your labels and positions, rather than being used by them. It means not being trapped in other people’s games. It means turning yourself on and off, rather than being dependent on the situation. It means choosing with a view to the consequences as well as the impulse. It means going with the flow even while swimming against it. It means living in several worlds without being swallowed up in any. It means seeing dilemmas as opportunities for creativity. It means greeting absurdity with laughter while trying to unscramble it. It means capturing the moment in the light of the future. It means seeing the environment through the eyes of your purpose. – Herbert Shepard (Rules of Thumb for Change Agents)