Life Inspirational Page

Walking is man's best medicine. - Hippocrates

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength. - Ralph Sockman

Every man has his secret sorrows, which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. - Chinese Proverb

Optimism is true moral courage. - Sir Ernest Shackleton

Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau

I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. - Benjamin Franklin

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful. - Thomas Arnold

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood. - Benjamin Spock

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Character is what you really are; reputation is what you are perceived to be. - John Wooden

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. - Henrik Ibsen

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. - Oscar Wilde

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears. - Marcus Aurelius

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. - Jean de la Bruy

We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. -Madame De Stael

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come; and when death has come, we are not. - Epicurus

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. -Dalai Lama

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep. - Socrates

"There are many kinds of success in life worth having," Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his autobiography. "It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer, or doctor, or a writer, or a president, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison. It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone; but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching."

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. - Kahlil Gibran

"Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day to day living that wears you out." - Anton Chekhov

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter. - Satchel Paige.

The only thing that is constant Is change - Heraclitus

William Shakespeare

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