These ten great inspirational sayings about life come from diverse cultures and times.

These sayings of inspiration represent the thread of enlightenment and compassion that has always run through the greatest among us, and are, to me, the best of the best. This above all, to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tsu If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. - Chief Seattle Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. - St Francis of Assisi There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche 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

Inspirational Sayings about Life

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. - Martin Luther King Jr. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future

generations. - George Bernard Shaw We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. - Joseph Campbell The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. - Joseph Campbell Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. - Helen Keller Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Helen Keller Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance. - Anonymous Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. - Confucius Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. - Marie Curie Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. - John Lennon No one knows what he can do until he tries. - Publilius Syrus As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way. - Mary Anne Radmacher There are no facts, only interpretations. - Friedrich Nietzsche I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. - Rabindranath Tagore To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day,

is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. - Theodore H. White Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

Inspirational Sayings about Love

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for that part of me you bring out. - Roy Croft I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the Spirit. - Khalil Gibran Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Where there is great love there are always miracles. - Willa Cather Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. - St. Francis of Assisi

Inspirational Sayings about Happiness

The purpose of our lives is to be happy. - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness. - Zhuangzi The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. - Carl Jung Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the willingness to deal with them joyfully. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Your greatest gift to others is to be happy and to radiate your happiness to the entire world. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie As a happy person, you radiate happiness to the world. Visualize your light radiating throughout the world, passing from person to person until it encircles the globe. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Training yourself to live in the present - without regretting the past or fearing the future - is a recipe for a happy life. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie The successful and happy ones dance lightly with life. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie When you feel worried and depressed, consciously form a smile on your face and act upbeat until the happy feeling becomes genuine. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Angry and happy don't mix. Flush out the angry, and the happy has a place to put down roots. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Inspirational Sayings and Quotes

I am unlimited. I take responsibility for my life. My every action is a conscious choice. I can accomplish anything good that I truly set my mind on. I keep focus, and persevere. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Today, I Dance Lightly With Life. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie You don't have the power to make life "fair," but you do have the power to make life joyful. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Joy increases and suffering decreases as one masters the distinction between events and one's feelings about those events. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie The magic words for a great relationship are, "I love you just the way you are." - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. - Eleanor Roosevelt You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. - C. S. Lewis Fall seven times, stand up eight. - Japanese Proverb My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on. - the movie Forrest Gump Today is the first day of the rest of your life. - Anonymous Every wall is a door. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King, Jr. We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. - Joseph Campbell Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. - Lao Tzu Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Today is your day to Spread Wing and Soar. Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning - Jonathan Lockwood Huie The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action. When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Whatever you want in life, start today. Not tomorrow - today. Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning. Your happiness depends on starting today - every day. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things, of Peace and Hope and Pride. I Dance My Dance with Life Today, I'm Filled with Love Inside. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Today is my day to laugh at life. Laugh loud - laugh often. Laugh at what's funny - laugh at what's sad. Laugh at me - laugh at you - laugh at life. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie I Can Do Anything - Starting Right Now. I have my dream, I have God, and I choose to move in the direction of my goal, even when I am afraid or unsure. Whenever I fall, I stand up, brush myself off, and keep moving toward my goal. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. - Rabindranath Tagore Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. - Martin Luther King Jr. We must become the change we wish to see in the world. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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 The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. - Helen Keller Life is a sum of all your choices. - Albert Camus We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. - Joseph Campbell The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. - Evan Esar Play with life, laugh with life, dance lightly with life, and smile at the riddles of life, knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Life is too important to be taken seriously. - Oscar Wilde Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. - Anonymous The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him. - Stanislaw Jerszy Lec Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. - the movie Forrest Gump

The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you, it is when you don't understand yourself. - Anonymous 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 [attributed] If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tsu He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. - Socrates Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love. - St. Francis of Assisi This above all, to thine own self be true. - William Shakespeare Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius Life is a choice. - Anonymous Attitude is everything. - Charles Swindoll Choose your Habits, Choose your Life. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. - George Bernard Shaw The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. - Joseph Campbell Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. - Marie Curie The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. - Yiddish Proverb Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. - A Course in Miracles

Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Nelson Mandela Where there's a will, there's a way. - Anonymous Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie Rickenbacker If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. - Joseph Addison One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. - Albert Schweitzer Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. - Helen Keller 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. - Marianne Williamson Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. - Eleanor Roosevelt CALM IN CHAOS In the midst of the flurry - clarity. In the midst of the storm - calm. In the midst of divided interests - certainty. In the many roads - a certain choice. - Mary Anne Radmacher Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller Hate is never conquered by hate, Hate is only conquered by love. - The Buddha Love is the absence of judgment. - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy. - Thich Nhat Hanh All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness. The important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. - Zen Proverb The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. - Theodore H. White A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for. - John A. Shedd Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. - Paulo Coelho All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness. - Jewish Hanukah Prayer He who has overcome his fears will truly be free. - Aristotle To err is human, to forgive divine. - Alexander Pope We are most like God when we forgive. - Anonymous Forgiveness is the key to happiness. - A Course In Miracles The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -- not from the mind. - Sheri Rosenthal Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. - Paul Boese

Anger is like a thorn in the heart. - Yiddish Proverb Those we love don't go away, They walk beside us every day, Unseen, unheard, but always near, Still loved, still missed and very dear. - Anonymous 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 1830 - 1890 I cannot know the pain you feel. I cannot share your memories or your loss. My words of sympathy are beneath measure, yet know that my heart reaches out with love to your heart. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. - Khalil Gibran A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - Anonymous It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. - Marlene Dietrich A friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you just the same. - Elbert Hubbard I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. - Chinese proverb As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way. - Mary Anne Radmacher A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. - Martin Luther King, Jr. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. - John Quincy Adams When the best leader's work is done the people say, "We did it ourselves." - Lao Tzu Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action. When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world . - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker Your example is far more influential and inspiring than any words of instruction, or threats, or even words of encouragement. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone and gratitude for everything. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Happiness is a choice. - Anonymous The purpose of our lives is to be happy. - Dalai Lama Happiness walks on busy feet. - Kitte Turmell When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. - Helen Keller Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. - Joseph Addison Where there is great love there are always miracles. - Willa Cather Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. - Rabindranath Tagore I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for that part of me you bring out. - Roy Croft Love me when I least deserve it, because that is when I really need it. - Swedish Proverb Where There is Love, Nothing is Missing. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. - Arthur Rubinstein Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there. - Rumi Each of us dwells in a cathedral of our own BEing that is created vast enough to encompass Unity with all creation. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Feel Unity with Spirit and All Creation All things share the same breath the

beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. - Chief Seattle [actually written by screenwriter Ted Perry in 1972] When the vast cathedral of our being becomes a sanctuary for all creation, we become the face of God. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way. - Mary Anne Radmacher Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. - Ralph Waldo Emerson If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. - Peace Pilgrim We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama I am unlimited. I take responsibility for my life. My every action is a conscious choice. I can accomplish anything good that I truly set my mind on. I keep focus, and persevere. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie You don't have the power to make life "fair," but you do have the power to make life joyful. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie Your greatest gift to others is to be happy and to radiate your happiness to the entire world. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. - Marianne Williamson As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others. - Marianne Williamson

The manifest universe is the body of God ... all people are incarnations of the One Spirit. - Ernest Holmes Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. - A Course In Miracles The words of truth are always paradoxical. - Lao Tzu The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow - Jonathan Lockwood Huie God grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change; Courage to change the things I can; And wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr