For many years I have kept journals with quotes and passages that were inspirational to me. I return to these journals when I need comfort or guidance. For birthdays and special occasions, I look through my journals to find the right quote for a loved one. Now I get to share them with you. Enjoy and I hope it will motivate you to start your own inspiration journal.
“This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of it’s furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.”
“Hostility keeps us tied to the abuses of the past.”
“The longest journey is the journey inward.”
“People who are wrapped up in themselves make very small packages.”
“I take comfort that aging happens to everybody. It connects me with the human race. Like weather bringing people together, aging brings people together.”
“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”
“Just because someone is a little banged up doesn’t mean you throw a whole life away.”
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
“There’s beauty in the breakdown. ”
“We’re either full of love or full of fear. ”
“To remain connected with the truth that sets us free we must go through an internal hell by remaining present and conscious even through terrible circumstances that we didn’t invite and don’t deserve.”
“Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.”
“Mediocrity is not living in the spark of your soul. Use the darkness to see your own luminosity. The spark of divinity in you. Let your spark light up a dark time or world. It will help you and the world to heal. Through the dark night you are healed. You become the wounded healer.”
“You can’t find peace by avoiding life.”
“Find out what a person fears most and that is where they will develop next.”
“We go on. Because it is the hard thing to do and we owe ourselves the difficulty.”
“In the darkest times the eyes can see.”
“The unfolding of my life is an issue of faith.”
“Gratitude is an action that dissolves fear.”
“Evolve or die.”
“You are your actions not your thoughts.”
“We must be willing to give up the live we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. ”
“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.”
“If our eye is always attuned to where we feel broken we will be unable to see where we are already whole.”
“The source of suffering is constant craving and wanting.”
“Measure your life in love. ”
“Just because you’re a wanderer doesn’t mean you’re aimless.”
“Well-behaved women never make history. ”
“The light is too painful for those who choose to stay in the dark. ”
“Be with those who help your being.”
“Letting go is not painful, it’s the resistance to letting go that is.”
“I want to be like the waves on the sea…like the clouds in the wind…but I am me. One day I’ll jump out of my skin, I’ll shake the sky like a hundred violins.”
“Give away the fire not the oil. ”
“Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.”
“You can uncover wisdom in the murky depths of pain.”
“Bear with everything as the earth bares with all that lives on it.”
“Falling apart or falling into place? Breakdown or breakthrough?”
“We are only capable of receiving what we are able to give.”
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
“Faith is not simply a patience, which passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather it is a spirit, which bears things ... with blazing serene hope.”
“The best way out is always through. ”
“The only things to take away from the past are wisdom & love.”
“Out of our vulnerabilities will come our strength.”
“My life is my message. ”
“What we resist persists.”
“Follow your bliss.”