Be Inspired

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

 

Understanding is a two-way street.

 

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

 

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

 

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. ... All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

 

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." ... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

 

One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short.

 

I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

 

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

 

Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until you put them in hot water.

 

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.