Beauty is not in the face
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. – Kahlil Gibran
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Vagabonding and Travel Quotes
Dont take life too seriously…no one comes out alive – Elbert Hubbard
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving – Lao Tzu
He who knows that he has enough, will always have enough – Lao Tzu
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth. – Buddha
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu
We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope – Edward Abbey
My greatest skill has been to want little – Henry David Thoreau
Always do what you are afraid to do – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
The fearful are caught as often as the bold. – Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller
We will not cease from our exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T.S. Elliot
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits. – Pico Iyer
Not all those who wander are lost – JRR Tolkien
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will lead you there – Unknown
A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles. – Tim Cahill
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty & well preserved body; but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’ – Hunter S. Thompson
Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. – Miriam Beard
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not. – Rudyard Kipling
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – Paul Theroux
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – Aldous Huxley
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – Rudyard Kipling
And forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. – Kahlil Gibran
Inspiring Life Quotes to Live By
1. “It’s better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.” –William Markiewicz
2. “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” – Viktor Frankl
3. “Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” –Kahlil Gibran
4. “One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie
5. “Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.” –Iyanla Vanzant
6. Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. –Nicolas de Chamfort
7. “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies.” –Ann Landers
8. “Circumstances and situations do color life but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.” –John Homer Miller
9. “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.” –Jiddu Krishnamurti
10. “Whatever you want in life, start today. Not tomorrow – today. Let it be a small beginning – a tiny beginning. Your happiness depends on starting today – every day.” –Jonathan Lockwood Huie
11. “The only difference between an extraordinary life and an ordinary one is the extraordinary pleasures you find in ordinary things.” –Veronique Vienne
12. “For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and working and finishing your work and sitting down to a meal with family or friends, then the chances are you’re not going to be very happy. If someone bases his or her happiness on major events like a great job, huge amounts of money, a flawlessly happy marriage or a trip to Paris, that person isn’t going to be happy much of the time. If, on the other hand, happiness depends on a good breakfast, flowers in the yard, a drink or a nap, then we are more likely to live with quite a bit of happiness.” –Andy Rooney
13. “The three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.” –Addison
14. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
15. “Life is not a journey to the grave with intentions of arriving safely in a pretty well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming … WOW! What a ride!” –Unknown
16. “To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.” –Peter Abrahams
17. “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.” –Joseph Campbell
18. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover” –Mark Twain
19. “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” –Charles Richards
20. “Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process.” –Anthony Robbins
21. “It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived –forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.” –Soren Kierkegaard
22. “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.” –Fr. Alfred D’Souza
23. “I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” –Jack London
24. “Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” –Mary Anne Radmacher
25. “When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.” –Greg Anderson
Life Quotes by Famous People
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” – George Washington Carver
“May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness, let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.” – Richard L. Evans
“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.” – John F. Kennedy
“An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.” – Winston Churchill
“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 others’ opinions drown out your inner voice. And most importantly, 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
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Theresa
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.” – Dag Hammarskjold
“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
” Fate, is an excuse for why we end up where we do! Our ‘Actions’ predetermine our Destiny, our ‘Reactions’ seal that fate!” – Carl Stoynoff
“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.” – Robert Frost
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “Compared to what?” – Sydney J. Harris
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.” –Kahlil Gibran
“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.” – Vincent van Gogh
“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
“It’s better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.” –William Markiewicz
“Life has got to be lived — that’s all there is to it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
“The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.” – Raymond Charles Barker
“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.” – May Sarton
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.” – Robert Byrne
Beauty Quotes
“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.” – Sara Teasdale
“When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” – Miss Piggy
“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” – Adlai E. Stevenson
“When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they’re actually beautiful.” – Kahlil Gibran
“Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.” – Don Williams, Jr
“I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.” – Sarah McLachlan
“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder” – Kinky Friedman
“She’s beautiful, and therefore to be woo’d She is a woman, therefore to be won” – William Shakespeare
“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone” – Dorothy Parker
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love” – Rabindranath Tagore
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
”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
Motivational Career Change Quotes
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. – Marian Wright Edelman
The best work never was and never will be done for money. – John Ruskin
My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life. – Jim Fox
For many people a job is more than an income – it’s an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life. – Paul Clitheroe
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work. – Kahlil Gibran
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. – Orison Swett Marden
A sobering thought: What if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? – Jane Wagner
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. – James Matthew Barrie
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. – Napoleon Hill
It’s so hard when I have to, and so easy when I want to. – Annie Gottlier
Choose your love, love your choice. – Thomas S. Monson
What is it that you like doing? If you don’t like it, get out of it, because you’ll be lousy at it. – Lee Iacocca
In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all – Mahatma Ghandi
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. – George Burns
I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. – Robert H. Schuller
10 Beauty Quotes
Let me share with you 10 Beauty Quotes to make your day better. Please comment and tell me you’re favorite beauty quote from this list (or from your own list). Thanks!
1. “The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.” – Ashley Smith
2. “Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.” – Mark Overby
3. “No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.” – Oscar Wilde
4. “It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.” – Oscar Wilde
5. “It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.” – Ivan Panin
6. “Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
7. “Pretty is something you’re born with. But beautiful, that’s an equal opportunity adjective.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
8. “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it” – Confucius
9. “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart” – Helen Keller
10. “It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before” – Jane Austen
Bonus: “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart” – Kahlil Gibran
Love Quotes
“The path of love is not the path of comfort. It means going forward into the unknown, with no guarantees of safety, even though you’re afraid. Trusting is dangerous, but without trust there is no hope for love, and love is all we ever have to hold against the dark…Love is worth nothing until tested against its own defeat.” – Creina Alcock
“Love is the beauty of the soul.” – St. Augustine
“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Baldwin
“Love is the burning point of life, and because life is suffering so is love.” – Joseph Campbell
“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” – Jonathan Carroll
“Love never hurts you. Its not loving yourself that hurts you.” – Barbara De Angelis
“For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love – this is an old rule.” – Dhammapada
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.” – George Eliot
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.'” – Erich Fromm
“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 “The Prophet”
“Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup… Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone thought they quiver with the same music.” – Kahlil Gibran “The Prophet”
“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” – Zora Neale Hurston
“So I will share this room with you
And you can have this heart to break.” – Billy Joel “So It Goes”
“You may be right
I may be crazy.
But I just may be a lunatic you’re looking for.” – Billy Joel
When you press me to your heart
I’m in a world apart
A world where roses bloom – La Vie En Rose
“Let us hesitate no longer to announce that the sensual passions and mysteries are equally sacred with the spiritual mysteries and passions.” – D.H. Lawrence
So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you’ll wait for me
Hold me like you’ll never let me go – Leaving on a Jet Plane
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Trouble is part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.” – Dinah Shore
“To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.” – Anne-Sophie Swetchine
“Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it, and no limit is set.” – Mother Teresa
“You are as prone to love as the sun is to shine; it being the most delightful and natural employment of the soul of man.” – Thomas Traherne
“We tend to wear suits of armor, one over the other… We hope we will not have to completely undress.” – Chogyam Trungpa
10 Famous Inspirational Quotes
“Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours” – Swedish Proverb
“No man is free who is not master of himself.” – Epictetus
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
“A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” – Bob Dylan
“The appearances of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.” – Kahlil Gibran
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus
“Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.” – Muhammad Ali
“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.” – Antoine de Sainte Exupery
“We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” – Winston Churchill
“The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt