Category: Inspirational Quotes

“You can always turn lemons into lemonade. Remember that doors may slam in your face, yet others will always open to more brilliant prospects. See any adverse situation you may currently have as the necessary impetus for creating a fabulous future.” – Wally Amos, The Path To Success Is Paved With Positive Thinking

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller

“God pays for what He orders. He would not call you into His service without providing all you need to pursue your passion and purpose.” – Nick Vujicic, Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith In Action

“What drives you? What makes you excited about each day? What would you do for free just to be doing it? What would you never want to retire from doing? Is there something that you would give up everything else for all your material possessions and comforts – just to do because you feel so good doing it? If you haven’t found the work God intends for you, ask yourself these questions.” – Nick Vujicic, Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith In Action

“Throw a seed in the seemingly empty earth and watch life spring forth from the emptiness. Think of the creative artist. She knows that for all her searching, concentrating, and disciplined effort, the really exciting breakthroughs will come as inspirations from the emptiness.” – Laurence Boldt, Zen and the Art of Making a Living

“Life is like a dance and we’re partners. Setbacks, delays, and detours? Heck, they’re just like some of the steps in the mambo, tango, and cha-cha. If you dissected the movements and saw them without regard to the rest of the dance, everyone would look like total dorks. But when you see the big picture…..poetry in motion.

In life, setbacks, delays, and detours are often just my way of keeping you for something way better. Don’t let them discourage you, don’t lose faith, and whatever you do, don’t stop dancing.”  – Mike Dooley, Notes From The Universe

“Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.” 

― Gay Hendricks, Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True

“When you follow your bliss…doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn’t be a door for anyone else.” – Joseph Campbell, twentieth-century scholar and professor

“Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.” These two, talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake-up calls to your true vocation in life. To ignore either is, in some sense, to lose your soul. – Laurence Boldt, Zen and the Art of Making a Living

“Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine — a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time, a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing, a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come, believe in them. They reflect your true nature.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, spiritual teacher and humanitarian, Happy For No Reason