#nspirational

If you want to find happiness, find gratitude. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #life-lessons #love

If I saw you hitchhiking, I’d smile and return your thumb’s up, just for you doing such a great job of being a positive roadside influence. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#hitchhiking #influence #inspirational #positive-influence #smile

...you're on this earth with a divine purpose: to rise to the level of your highest creative possibility, expressing all that you are intellectually, emotionally, psychologically, and physically in order to make the universe a more beautiful place. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#beauty

Today is a gift to change what wasn't changed yesterday so that you can avoid tomorrow's regrets. ↗

— Tilia Davis

#change

Look. Isn't he beautiful?" Drew's expression softened. "Ah, Nellie. He's bald, pink, and has no teeth. What's so beautiful about that?" Nellie's laugh tinkled out like musical chimes while she covered the babe back up. ↗

— Deeanne Gist

#bride #brides #christian #christian-romance #connie

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#experience

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever...I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#beauty-in-literature #freedom #freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-speech #freedom-of-thought

If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience. How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races, the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses? Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#courage #dragons #inspirational #life #beauty

When your heart burns with passion, and your faith is at it's peak, it is then when you have your life by the horns, and now when the preconceived desires in your dreams materialize. Believe beyond your minds eye and see the light, the energy that will fill your half full cup to the brim, and overflow with joyous life experiences. Think it, see it, and live it. Expand.... ↗

— Will Barnes

#inspirational #personal-development #spiritual #dreams

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion. ↗

— John Wooden

#inspirational #family