Top 10 Best Inspirational Quotes

SourcesofInsight.com; Acharya Buddharakkhita (Dhp); Ashley Wells (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Buddha said it best in the Kalama Sutra inviting us to freely inquire and investigate.

"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality." - artist, icon Frida Kahlo

  

"Mind is the forerunner" - the Buddha

1. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are mind-made. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts, unhappiness follows like the wheel that follows the foot of the draft ox
 

2. Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are mind-made. If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows like one's never-departing shadow. - The Dhammapada

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Inspiration means "to breathe life into." Inspirational words breathe life into things we do. JD has created a collection of some of the most inspirational quotes of all time. Everyone’s here, the Buddha, Lao-Tzu, Emerson, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Twain, Franklin, Churchill, and more. That’s a powerful bunch to have in our corner.  Use their words of wisdom for a lift as we “stand on the shoulders of giants.”

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   You'll look back and see change. Eat Pray Love

   “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” — Mary Anne Radmacher
2. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “I want to be all used up when I die.” — George Bernard Shaw
4. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” — Napoleon Hill
5. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.” — George Eliot
6. “Let him who would move the world, first move himself.” — Socrates
7. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou
8. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
9. “Smile, breathe and go slowly.” — Buddhist monk and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Thich Nhat Hanh
10. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson More