With Gratitude for Words of Inspiration

For many years I collected inspirational phrases and kept a cork board of them in my office. When people needed a boost, they stopped by to search for words to inspire them. It was amazing how inspiring words changed their outlook. I am so grateful to all those who have inspired me with their words all my life. Here are some of my favorites:

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.

Kindness in giving creates love. Lao Tzu

I am determined to speak truthfully with words that inspire self-confidence, joy and hope.

Thich Nhat Hanh

He who finds his life will lose it and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. Jesus

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. May Sarton

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Native American Wisdom

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched –

they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Socrates

More often than not, the things we detest and judge in others are a reflection of the things we cannot accept about ourselves. Iyanla Vanzant

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give. Eleanor Roosevelt

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the

images imprisoned within you. Rainer Maria Rilke

If you get, give. If you learn, teach. Maya Angelou

If you are really paying attention and really ready to heal, the day will come when you recognize that forgiveness is the only way back to the center of your innocence.

Iyanla Vanzant

The soul is here for its own joy. Rumi

I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world – present and in awe. Anne Lamott

Wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure. Paulo Coelho

Sometimes I need to stand only where I am to be blessed. Mary Oliver

Nature is a haunted house but Art is a house that tries to be haunted. Emily Dickinson

What you tolerate, you cannot change. Joel Osteen

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long

to play with your hair. Kahlil Gibran

Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Albert Einstein

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Wayne Dyer

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath. Eckhart Tolle

When we observe things calmly, we notice that all things have their fulfillment. Basho

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot do a kindness too soon; you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi

And what does the Lord require from you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8)

The best use of imagination is creativity; the worst use of imagination is anxiety.

Deepak Chopra