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Inspirational Love Quotes

Love is not a matter of counting the years – it’s making the years. – Anonymous

True love has no limits. – Mother Theresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – St. Augustine

Love is the beauty of the soul. – Dr. Karl Menninger

Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. – John Lennon

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. – Octavio Paz

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion. – Unknown Author

In love, one and one are one.one – Emmet Fox

If only you could love enough you would be the happiest and most powerful being in the world . . . – William S. Burroughs

Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will. – William S. Burroughs

Inspirational Love Quotes

Inspiring Quotes

I’ve selected for you 10 Inspiring Quotes for a better day. Enjoy!

“Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.” – Polly Berends

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

“Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – John Mitchell

“The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.” – Julia Alvarez

Inspiring Quotes“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” – Brian Tracy

“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” – Clare Booth Luce

“If you see a difference between where you are and where you want to be – consciously change your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.” – Neal Donald Walsch

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

What’s your favorite?

Inspiring Quotes on Life

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself” – George Bernard Shaw

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take” – Wayne Gretzky

“If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want” – Unknown

“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you area vegetarian” – Dennis Wholey

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be” – Marcel Pagnol

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was” – Richard L. Evans

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not”- Unknown

Inspiring Quotes on Enemies and Forgiveness

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you” –African Proverb

“One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget” –Franklin P. Jones

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves and Those who are afraid that you will succeed”- Ray Goforth

Forgive your enemies but never forget their names” – JFK

“Take care that no one hates you justly”- Pubilius Syrus

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it” – Confucius

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned”- Buddha

Inspiring Quotes on Experience

“In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these” – Paul Harvey

“No one can go back and make a brand new start, my friend, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end” –Dan Zadra

“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter”- Unknown

“Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind” – Marcel Proust

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him”- Aldous Huxley

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable”- Sydney J. Harris

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better” — Samuel Beckett

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere”- Agnes Repplier

“There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self” – Hindu proverb

Inspiring Quotes on Love

“To offer a man friendship when love is in his heart is like giving a loaf of bread to one who is dying of thirst. –Frank Frankfort Moore

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves”- Victor Hugo

“Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life–love shouldn’t be one of them”- Movie: Dream for an Insomniac

“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable”- The Wizard of Oz

“Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together”- Author Unknown

Inspirational Quotes

This above all, to thine own self be true. – William Shakespeare

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

Life is a choice. – Anonymous

Attitude is everything. – Charles Swindoll

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. – George Bernard Shaw

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. – Marie Curie

The truly rich are those who enjoy what they have. – Yiddish Proverb

Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love.
The real miracle is the love that inspires them.
In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. – A Course in Miracles

Inspirational Quotes

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” – Tom Krause

“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.” – Tom Krause

“Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.” – Bo Bennett

“Music is what feelings sound like.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“You are the embodiment of the information you choose to accept and act upon. To change your circumstances you need to change your thinking and subsequent actions.” – Adlin Sinclair

“There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them.” – Tom Krause

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs

“Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.” – Lao Tzu

“Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.” – Stephen Kaggwa

“A true friend sees the good in everything, and brings out the best in the worst of things.” – Sasha Azevedo

Quotes to Inspire

Let me show you a huge collection of Quotes to Inspire. Please take time and read all of them, select your favorite, and share with all your friends. Be happy! :)

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. . . . Explore. Dream.” – Mark Twain

“One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would.” – Nelson Mandela

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” – Isaac Asimov

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” – Muhammad Ali

“The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.” – Erving Goffman

“Thinking too well of people often allows them to be better than they otherwise would be.” – Nelson Mandela

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead

“One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have.” – Doris Mortman

“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

“Make it your business to know yourself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.” – Miguel De Cervantes

“To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.” – Joseph Chilton Pearce

”Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” –
Carl Bard

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” – Albert Einstein

Quotes to Inspire”Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.” – Albert Schweitzer

”The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

”Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.” – Henry David Thoreau

”The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.” – Sir James M. Barrie

“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer

“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.” – Chinese Proverb

“If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” – Betty Reese

”The journey of discovery begins not with new vistas but with having new eyes with which to behold them.” – Marcel Proust

”The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” – Linus Pauling

“Tell me I’ll forget, show me, I may remember, but involve me and I’ll understand. – Chinese Proverb

”Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis of Assisi

”The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” – Nelson Mandela

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” – Agnes Repplier

“If you put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” – Anonymous

“The definition of a bore: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” – Ambrose Bierce

”To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.” – Johann von Goethe

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.” – Soren Kierkegaard

”Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it “ – Henry David Thoreau

“When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.” – Kahlil Gibran

”Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.” – Carl Jung

”Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

”Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

”I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” – Thomas Jefferson

”First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi

”Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

”The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” – Albert Einstein