“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
-Oprah Winfrey
Tag Inspirational Quotes
“We are all a little broken. But last time I checked, broken crayons still color the same.”
“Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is yours alone to sing
falls into your open cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself
to this world so worthy of rescue.”
-“Clearing,” by Martha Postlethwaite
“Your sadness doesn’t make you less of a human being. In fact, it makes you more. More expansive. More connected. Painfully beautiful. Raw. Open. Completely alive.”
–Panache Desai, Discovering Your Soul Signature: A 33-Day Path to Purpose, Passion & Joy
“I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see stars.”
–Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“Is the grass really greener on the other side of the fence? No. The grass is greener where you water it.”
“Being humble means recognizing that we are not on Earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.”
“Cease your complaining and fretting. The cause is in yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy…Alter your outlook on life, and your outward life will alter.”
–James Allen, James Allen’s Book of Meditations for Every Day of the Year, August Thirtieth
“What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn’t go swimming in those warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen.”
“I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved.”
…I think the…people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels.”
–Princess Diana, “An Interview with HRH The Princess of Wales,” BBC, 20 November 1995
