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Inspiration

In this collection of quotations, each one speaks to me. They all reflect facets of who I know myself to be, how I try to approach my life and how I approach my work with others. I offer them with the possibility that one or many may also speak to you.

I have spent many days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.
-- Rabindranath Tagore

The mind is like a parachute; it works only when it is open.
-- Unknown

Why not go out on a limb; that's where all the fruit is.
--Will Rogers

Every act is an act of self-definition.
--Gandhi

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
--Albert Camus

Know thyself.
-–The oracle at Delphi

Out beyond right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
-–Rumi

There are two ways to live your life. One as though nothing is a miracle. The other as though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein

You cannot shake hands with a closed fist.
--Indira Ghandi

You can be right or you can be in relationship.
-–Sunny Shulkin

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
--Alfred A. Montapert

You're writing the story of your life one moment at a time.
--Doc Childre and Howard Martin, The HeartMath Solution

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
--Mother Therese

Blessed are the flexible for they shall not be bent out of shape.
--Unknown

And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
--Anais Nin

If we do not change direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
-–Chinese proverb

The world is holding its breath - waiting for you to take your place.
--David Whyte

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.
--Dr. Seuss

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
--James Thurber

All real daring begins within.
–Eudora Welty

My heart is set on living.
--Edna St. Vincent Milay

When you are expansive no matter what the weather you are in an open, windy field with friends.
--Rumi

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
--Augustine

There is more to life than merely increasing its speed.
--Ghandi

How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.
--Annie Dillard

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
--The Dalai Lama

Bring me all of your dreams / You dreamers / Bring me all of your heart melodies / That I may wrap them / In a blue cloud cloth / Away from the too rough fingers / Of the World
--Langston Hughes

Hold fast to dreams / for if dreams die / Life is a broken-winged bird / That cannot fly / Hold fast to dreams, / For when dreams go, / Life is a barren field / All covered with snow.
--Langston Hughes

More Inspiration

The Humpback Whale
(download 1-spg PDF story)

Take on an Impossible Task (70-year-old woman's letter to the editor from NYT)
(download 1-pg PDF)