#nspirational

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#contentment #happiness #inspirational #life #attitude

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#hate #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#be-yourself #inspirational #beauty

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present. ↗

— John Green

#imagination

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#life #inspirational

I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#being-loved #inspirational #life #love #relationships

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#inspirational #love #inspirational

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#elizabeth-gilbert #inspiration #inspirational

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease. ↗

— Aberjhani

#inspiration #iraq #peace #philosophy #september-

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#death