Inspirational quotes for when you need a lift

Each one has touched me at different times in my life and I would now like to share them with you. 

Only after the last tree has been cut down.

Only after the last river has been poisoned.

Only after the last fish has been caught.

Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

 

Don’t bite off more than you can chew!

NO bite off more than you can chew,

And then chew it!

 

Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud?

 

Blame is useless.

Blaming only gives away your power.

 

None of us can possibly know it all, ever.

Avoid those who think they do.

 

Be strong, that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

 

Our love can become a miracle in someone’s life.

 

Learn from others mistakes,

you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

 

The secret of happiness is not having what you like,

but liking what you have.

 

May I never rejoice in the ill-fortune of one who has wronged me.

 

Saints are sinners who did not give up.

 

Learn to listen,

opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

 

Your answers lie inside you.

All you need to do is look, listen & trust.

 

May I win no victory that harms either me,

or my opponent.

 

May I never fail a friend in danger.

 

He who loses money, loses much,

He who loses a friend loses more,

He who loses faith, loses all.

 

There are no mistakes, only lessons.

 

It takes a very wise man to know where real need lies,

and to give the right portion,

to the right person, at the right moment.

For there are those that give and those that take.

 

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars,

you have a right to be here.

 

If you always do what you’ve always done,

then you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

 

May I wish for all men’s happiness and envy none.

 

Others are merely mirrors of you.

 

If someone betrays you once it’s their fault,

if they betray you twice it’s yours.

 

Many people will walk in and out of your life,

but true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

 

Anger is only one letter short of danger.

 

In the vault of the mind lie all the chains of bondage, as well as the keys to freedom.

 

Do not be blind to what virtue there is,

many persons strive for high ideas,

and everywhere life is full of heroism.

 

Look not back in anger,

nor forward in fear,

but around in awareness.

 

I promise myself to give so much love, acceptance, appreciation

to me, that I have no time to criticize others.

 

You may want to believe

You may even think you believe,

but if you really believe,

the result will be instantaneous.

 

It lies with each one of us to cut with the sword of wisdom,

the cords of our bondage, or to remain bound.

 

‘There’ is no better than ‘Here’.

 

To handle yourself, use your head,

To handle others use your heart.

 

Never deprive someone of hope,

it might be all they have.

 

The greatest influence in your life,

stronger even than your will power,

 is your environment. Change that if necessary.

 

You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

 

The best way to dissociate yourself from your difficulty

is to be mentally detached,

As if you were merely a spectator,

While at the same time seeking a remedy.

 

Do not be cynical about love,

For in the face of all disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

 

Don’t use time or words carelessly.

Neither can be retrieved.

 

In the absence of inward joy,

men turn to evil.

 

If you compare yourself with others

you may become vain and bitter,

For there will always be

greater and lesser persons than yourself.

 

Look at your actions in life.

They will tell you all you need to know about yourself.

 

God gives every bird it’s food,

but he does not throw it into its nest.

 

A lesson is repeated until learned.

 

The tongue weighs practically nothing,

but so few people can hold it.

 

Growth is a process of trial and error of experimentation.

 

Trouble and disease have a lesson for us.

Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us,

But to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home.

 

Go placidly amid the noise and haste and

remember what peace there may be in silence.

 

With all its sham,

drudgery and broken dreams,

it is still a beautiful world.

 

Take kindly the counsel of years,

gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

 

To fly away from problems may seem the easiest solution.

But you can gain strength only

when you wrestle with a strong opponent.

One who does not have difficulties

is one who doesn’t grow.

 

Do not distress yourself with imaginings,

many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

When you withdraw your mind inward,

you will begin to perceive

that there are many more wonderful things

within than outside.

 

Avoid loud and aggressive persons

they are vexations to the spirit.

 

You are a spark of an Eternal Flame.

You can hide the spark,

but you can never destroy it.

 

Meet everybody and every circumstance

on the battlefield of life with

the courage of a hero

and the smile of a conqueror.

 

Whilst visiting those in grief may I be able

by gentle and healing words to soften their pain.

 

Talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet.

 

Pain & pleasure are transitory.

 

Endure all dualities with calmness,

Trying at the same time to

remove yourself beyond their power.

 

When pride comes, then comes disgrace

but with humility comes wisdom.

-Proverbs 11:2

 

Be the change you wish to see in the world

 

Laughter is the best medicine