Our Newest QuotesIf you feel delight when you read a new quote for the first time that truly inspires you – get ready to be delighted! This page is about to become your personal ‘quote treasure trove’. When quotes are selected for our collection, you’ll be able to review them here before they are entered into their subject and author categories on this site.Listen to me. We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here? Steve Jobs If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. John Harvey The best teachers are the best storytellers. We learn in the form of stories. Frank Smith The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another. Marva Collins Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. Lauren Bacall The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. Oscar Wilde We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened? Marianne Williamson There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest Hemingway Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed. Robert H. Schuller Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity. Bo Bennett An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence. Jeanette Winterson When the music changes, so does the dance. African Proverb And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. Gilbert K. Chesterton Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy. Mother Teresa Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. Helen Keller Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, "Did you bring joy?" The second was, "Did you find joy?" Leo Buscaglia Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and joy you have not yet begun to live. Thomas Merton The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create. Frank Herbert Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine. Melodie Beattie There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million. Walt Streightiff I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding. John O'Donohue The highest endeavor of the ind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. Baruch Spinoza Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. Plotinus Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. Florence Scovel Shinn You can't depend on your ideas when your imagination is out of focus. Mark Twain The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. Carl Rogers Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. Alfred A. Montapert In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes. John Ruskin Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. Robert Brault Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross There are two things people want more than sex and money…recognition and praise. Mary Kay Ash The ability to live in the question long enough for genius to emerge is a touchstone of creative success. Jonathan Fields Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. Steve Jobs The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it. Simone Weil We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. Albert Einstein Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh People kept telling me art can't change the world; so I stopped calling what I did art. Carl Scrase The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy. Rabindanath Tagore Great opportunity is usually disguised as unsolvable problems. Gretchen G. Clement The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary step. Julia Cameron When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Steve Jobs A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life. Steve Jobs You don't create your mission in life - you detect it. Viktor Frankl You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world. Georges Bernanos Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. Robert G. Ingersoll The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. Phil Jackson No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. Althea Gibson Politeness is the poison of collaboration. Edwin Land If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. George Bernard Shaw It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak, and another to hear. Henry David Thoreau If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up. Oliver Wendal Holmes Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health. Stephen Mitchell Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth. Abraham Maslow Try and fail, but don't fail to try. Stephen Kaggwa Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. Paul Tillich Every generation needs a new revolution. Thomas Jefferson As a life-long collector of quotes, nothing is more fun for me as discovering a new ‘quote gem’. Keep in mind I often sift through hundreds of quotes a day. Sometimes I come up empty handed. On the good days, quotes seem to pop out and say, “Pick me!” Every time that happens, that special, hand-selected bit of inspiration will land on this page for your enjoyment. After a week, these new quotes will be sorted and included in their subject and author categories, and another set of new quotes will take their place on this page. Sound exciting? If so, I am naming you an official member of our Quote Collector’s Club. I never stop hunting for quotes, and I confess to being very picky, too. Some quotes work for me, but many, many others do not. That’s the great thing about being the ‘quote master’ of this site. My hope is that you share my enthusiasm for these quotes and find some joy in sharing them, too! I know many of you are ‘quote angels’ passing along ‘random acts of inspiration’ in the form of quotes you read here that could help someone you know. Thank you for sharing and caring. Telling people about this site will help us all grow. Please know your support is greatly appreciated. Have a quote you think belongs in the Joy of Quotes collection? Please share it with us using this form. I cannot promise every quote will be used, but you have my assurance I will read every quote you submit with love. Thanks, in advance, for your help!  Return from Inspirational Quotes to Live By: Our Newest Quotes to the Joy of Quotes home page
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