A Treasury Of Inspirational Thoughts

As Disraeli said, "Life is too short
to be little."  Our lives are governed by 
the thoughts we think, and we have an 
almost magical ability to choose those 
thoughts.  By choosing purposeful and 
powerful thoughts, we quietly become
more purposeful and powerful.  Let us 
then endeavor to live each day as if it
were our last, and to live our lives as if 
they were indeed a most splendid gift.



It is our duty as men and women 
to proceed as though the limits to 
our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin



We are twice armed 
if we fight with faith.
Plato



It is the character of a brave and 
resolute man not to ruffled by 
adversity and not to desert his post.
Cicero



Everything has its wonders,
even darkness and silence.
Helen Keller



Still round the corner there may wait,
a new road or a secret gate.
J.R.R. Tolkien



A wildflower on the mountain top 
would not change places with 
a rose in the garden.
Armenian Proverb



To me, every hour of the day 
and night is an unspeakably 
perfect miracle.
Walt Whitman



How oft the darkest hour of ill 
breaks brightest into dawn.
Euripides



If one advances confidently in the direction 
of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life 
he has imagined, he will meet with a success 
unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau



Sometimes I go about with pity for 
myself and all the while Great Winds 
are carrying me across the sky.
Ojibway Saying
                                     


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



I don't think of all the misery, but
of all the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank



Live your life while you have it.
Life is a splendid gift--there is 
nothing small about it.
Florence Nightingale



The path of sorrow, and 
that path alone, Leads to the 
land where sorrow is unknown.
William Cowper



I beg you take courage; the brave
soul can mend even disaster.
Catherine the Great



There is a destiny that makes us brothers;
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back into our own.
 Edwin Markham 



Let us endeavor so to live that 
when we come to die, even 
the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain



The world is so full of a number of things,
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.
Robert Louis Stevenson



He who would arrive at the appointed 
end must follow a single road and not 
wander through many ways.
Seneca



All I have seen teaches me to trust 
the creator for all I have not seen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



It is only well with me when 
I have a chisel in my hand.
Michelangelo



He is wise who does not grieve 
for the things he has not, but 
rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus



If the only prayer you say in your whole 
life is "thank you" that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart



Come, come, my conservative friend,
wipe the dew off your spectacles,
and see that the world is moving.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton



Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost



Let nothing distress you, 
Let nothing disturb you.
All things pass but God, 
Who alone is sufficient.
St. Teresa of Avila



My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends-
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay



Teach us delight in simple things,
And mirth that has no bitter springs.
Rudyard Kipling



Enlightenment begins on 
the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre



In the depth of winter, I finally 
learned that within me there 
lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus



He who has a why to live for
can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche



We cannot fathom the mystery of a single 
flower, nor is it intended we should.
John Ruskin



Whatever I am offered in devotion 
with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, 
fruit, or water - I accept with joy.
Bhagavad Gita 



If you have love 
you will do all things well.
Thomas Merton



I have been driven many times to my knees 
by the overwhelming conviction that I had 
nowhere else to go.  My own wisdom and that 
of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.
Abraham Lincoln



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



Lord, make me an instrument of your peace
where there is hatred let me sow love.
Prayer of St Francis



To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wildflower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake