22 March 2012

Inspiring Quotes - turn around

Had my moan yesterday, now to shift into a different thinking space - here is a small collection of quotes I find inspiring:
  • The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.   – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.    – Anna Quindlen
  • Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.   – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • If you’re going through hell, keep going.   – Winston Churchill
  • What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly.   – Richard Bach
  • Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.- Elizabeth Barret Browning
  • Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions, all life is an experience.   – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt
  • I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I’ve ended up where I needed to be.   – Douglas Adams
  • Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.   – Dorothy Parker
  • You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.   – Mary Tyler Moore
  • Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.   – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.  – Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. - Albert Einstein 
  • Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.  - CS Lewis
  • Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. - CS Lewis
  • Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. - CS Lewis
  • We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. - CS Lewis 



     

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