Quotes for Inspiration
Posted on 06. Oct, 2009 by Margaret in Quotes
“Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson
“Breath is central to Yoga because it is central to Life… and Yoga is about Life.”
T. Krishnamacharya
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Gandhi
“There are 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
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.”
Goethe
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
Mother Teresa
“It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult”
Seneca Indian
“Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand.”
Sue Patton Thoele
“Who are we, not to shine.”
Nelson Mandela
“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.”
The Dalai Lama
“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox, what is soft is strong.”
Lao Tzu
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
Hans Hoffman
“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.”
Buddha
“When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.”
Cheri Huber
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
“When your body, mind, and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to those around you and health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy living organ of the body of humanity.”
B.K.S. Iyengar
