TRANSFORMATIVE & MOTIVATING QUOTES
afterward." -Chinese Proverb “Imagination is the beginning of “Experience is that marvelous thing creation. You imagine what you desire, that enables you to recognize a you will what you imagine and at last mistake when you make it again." you create what you will." -F. P. Jones -George Bernard Shaw “Only those who do nothing at all make “All truly wise thoughts have been no mistakes... but that would be thought already thousands of times; a mistake." but to make them truly ours, we must "Life is a leap into the unknown. If think them over again honestly, you want a guarantee, buy a toaster." till they take root in our personal -Bill Harris experience." “Ideals are like stars; you will not -Johann von Goethe succeed in touching them with your “Life is an opportunity, benefit from hands, but like the seafaring man on it. the desert of waters, you choose Life is beauty, admire it. them as your guides, and following Life is bliss, taste it. them, you reach your destiny." Life is a dream, realize it. -Carl Schurz Life is a challenge, meet it. “When inquiry is suppressed by Life is a duty, complete it. previous knowledge, or by the Life is a game, play it. authority Life is a promise, fulfill it. and experience of another, then Life is sorrow, overcome it. learning becomes mere imitation, and Life is a song, sing it. imitation causes a human being to Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is repeat what is learned without a tragedy, confront it. experiencing it." Life is an adventure, dare it. -J. Krishnamurti Life is luck, make it. “Children need models rather than Life is too precious, do not destroy critics." it. --Joseph Joubert Life is life, fight for it." “Time is too slow for those who wait, -Mother Teresa too swift for those who fear, too “Love is much more fundamental than long for those who grieve, too short any kind of thinking or believing. for those who rejoice, but for those It is the root and basis of who you who love, time is eternity." are, at the most fundamental level. -Henry Van Dyke This means that anything other than “The highest form of spiritual work is love as an expression of your being the realization of the essence of is artificial and unnatural and is a man.... You never learn the answer; result of not knowing who you are." you can only become the answer." -Bill Harris -Richard Rose “Too Slow for those who Wait, “The fact that someone says something Too Swift for those who Fear, doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't Too Long for those who Grieve, mean they're lying, but it doesn't Too Short for those who Rejoice, mean it's true." But for those who Love -Carl Sagan Time is not.” “You are up and you are happy. -Henry Van Dyke You are down and you are sad. “The man who is aware of himself is All ups and downs help you to find a henceforward independent; and he balance in your being. is never bored, and life is only too This is what life is all about. short, and he is steeped through and Once balanced, no more ups and downs, through with a profound yet temperate but bliss and joy and silence and happiness. He alone lives, while gratitude." other people, slaves of ceremony, let -Tishan life slip past them in a kind of dream." -Virginia Woolf “Experience is a hard teacher because http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhRCp9zZc7w she gives the test first, the lesson
