Daily Inspirational Thoughts – Insights For Each Day

by allinspiration.com

“The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others. ”
– Ghandi

“I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred—that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different. ”
– Harriet Lerner

“Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God. ”
– Hasidic Proverb

“While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.”
– Hasidic Proverb

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain. ”
– Helen Keller

“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. ”
– Helen Keller

“I’d rather be right than President.”
– Henry Clay

“What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on? ”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot.”
– Indian Proverb

“What worth has beauty if it is not seen?”
– Italian Proverb

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
– James Oppenheim

“Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.”
– James Shirley (1596-1666)

“To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions. ”
– Jane Porter

“I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!”
– Jerry Van Amerongen

“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.”
– Jim Rohn

“Either you run the day or the day runs you.”
– Jim Rohn

“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
– Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from “Faust”

“There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness.”
– John Buchan

“May you live all the days of your life. ”
– Jonathan Swift

“There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“The force of a wave takes everything with it. Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance. ”
– Lakota Proverb

“Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others have their own way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs. ”
– Larry Scherwitz

“Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.”
– Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.”
– Leo Rosten

“The true way to soften one’s troubles is to solace those of others. ”
– Madame De Maintenon

“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
– Margaret B. Runbeck

“Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.”
– Margaret Chase Smith

“Always do right – this will gratify some and astonish the rest. ”
– Mark Twain

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ”
– Martin Luther King

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