Some Quotes that Inspire Me

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.                                                              - ee cummings

“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”  - ee cummings

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
                                                                                 -- Carl Jung

How thoughtlessly we dissipate our energies... -- Billy Joel

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.                                                      -- Carl Jung

There is a voice in the Universe urging us to remember our purpose for being on this great Earth. This is the voice of inspiration, which is within each and every one of us.                                           -- Wayne Dyer

Treat yourself as if you already are what you'd like to become.  - W. Dyer


Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.                                                                              - Martin Luther King

He whom love touches does not know darkness.   -- Plato

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.   -- ee cummings

To change one's life: Start Immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.                                                                    -- William James

Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.     

                                                        --

O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

                                                                     -- St. Francis of Assissi

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.                                   -- W. Dyer