Inspirational Quotes By Famous People
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A Course In Miracles 
Spiritual teachings book

• All thoughts have power.
• God is the Light in which I see. God is the mind with which I think. God is the Love in which I forgive. God is the strength in which I trust. There is nothing to fear.
• I will direct you to wherever you can be truly helpful, and to whoever can follow my guidance through you.
• Let me remember I am one with God. Our shining footprints point the way to truth, for God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while.
• Teach only love, for that is what you are.

Abraham-Hicks 1948
Channeller, speaker & author

• A belief is only a thought I keep thinking.
• It is the way you feel that is your point of attraction.
• The purpose of your life is joy.
• You are here to create the world around you that YOU choose, while you allow the world as others choose it to be to exist also. And while their choices in no way hinder your choices, your attention to what they are choosing does affect your vibration, and therefore your own point of attraction.
• You are Source Energy in a physical body.

Aristotle 384BC-322BC
Ancient Greek philosopher & polymath

• Choice, not chance.. Determines your destiny.
• Educating the mind, without educating the heart, is no education at all.
• Happiness depends upon ourselves.
• The more you know... the more you know you don't know.
• Where your talents and the needs of the world cross… There lies your vocation.

Marcus Aurelius 121-180
Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher

• Each day provides its own gifts.
• Every instant of time is a pinprick of eternity.
• Everything’s destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.
• What stands in the way, becomes the way.
• You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

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Black-Elk 1863-1950
Native American of Oglala Lakota tribe

• Let every step you take upon the Earth be as a prayer.
• May you always walk in beauty.
• Peace will come to the hearts of men when they realize their oneness with the Universe, it is everywhere.
• The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the Souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the Souls of men.
• The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

Robert Brault
American author & philosopher

• Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.
• In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy too.
• Sometimes in tragedy we find our life’s purpose.. The eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
• There is exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.
• What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering, than the family and the gathering.

Buddha 624BC-543BC
Spiritual leader & founder of Buddhism

• Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I said it... Unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
• Everything that has a beginning has an end. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
• If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
• The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye and found by the heart.
• What we are today, comes from our thoughts of yesterday. And our present thoughts, build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.

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Eileen Caddy 1917-2006
British spiritual teacher & author

• Always choose the path of light and ignore the darkness, thereby giving it no strength.
• Be at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance.
• It is love that will overcome the world; it is love which will unite humanity.
• Relax in my love and in turn pour forth that Divine Love out to the world.
• Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

Thomas Carlyle 1795-1881
Scottish historian & essayist

• Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
• Go as far as you can see.. When you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.
• No pressure... No diamonds.
• Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
• To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

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Princess Diana 1961-1997
British royal family

• Family is the most important thing in the world.
• Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
• Hugs can do great amounts of good... especially for children.
• I don't go by the rule book; I lead from the heart, not the head.
• I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts.

Wayne Dyer 1940-2015
American author & motivational speaker

• As you awaken to your divine nature, you’ll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience.
• Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
• Don’t die with your music still in you.
• Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with Love and I send that Love out into the world. How others treat me is their path, how I react is mine.
• Loving people live in a loving world, hostile people live in a hostile world... But it's the same world.

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Albert Einstein 1879-1955
German-American scientist

• Creativity is intelligence having fun.
• Everyone is a genius, but, if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
• Everything in life is vibration.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know now and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand.
• There are only two ways to live your life. One, as though nothing is a miracle. The other is, as though everything is a miracle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882
American essayist & lecturer

• All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all that I have not seen.
• Common sense is genius dressed in it’s working clothes.
• Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
• Earth laughs in flowers.
• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

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Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948
Indian leader, activist & lawyer

• An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
• For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.
• I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
• It’s easy to stand with the crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese-American writer & poet

• Beauty is not in the face. Beauty is a Light in the heart.
• Forget not that the Earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
• God made truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
• Love... It surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
• The essence of everything on Earth, seen and unseen, is Spiritual.

Trina Graves 1961
English spiritual poet & quote anthologist

• Be Love, Seek Joy.
• Each day bring your focus on all the Love, Joy and Beauty around. Live each moment with inner peace and Heaven on Earth you will have found.
• Family history needs to be shared not just for memories sake, but for all the treasures they hold, from our past, our lives we make.
• Infuse yourself with Love and Light, be a beacon burning bright Radiate, illuminate, sparkle, shine, at One with all, Spirit Divine.
• The All-That-Is, Source Energy is my anchor, my life-jacket of Love and Light keep me afloat. Whatever waves may toss and turn in my life, I choose to remain calm in my aligned boat.

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Louise L. Hay 1926-2017
American author, speaker & founder of Hay House publishing

• Every thought we think is creating our future.
• For I am a beloved child of the Universe and the Universe lovingly takes care of me. All is well in my world.
• I am healthy, whole and complete.
• Love is the great miracle cure. Loving yourself works miracles in our lives.
• We create every so called ‘illness’ in our body. The body, like everything else in life, is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs. The body is always talking to us, if we will only take the time to listen. Every cell within your body responds to every single thought you think and every word you speak.

Robert Holden 1964
British psychologist & author

• First you believe, and then you see the Light. Next you go towards the Light. Soon you are IN the Light. Now you ARE the Light.
• Happiness is not in things.. Happiness is in YOU.
• The difference between: Happiness is NO-Where and Happiness is NOW-Here has nothing to do with the event, and everything to do with how you see the event. Your perception is key.
• To have time for what is valuable, you have to stop giving time to what isn't.
• Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.

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Michael Jackson 1958-2009
American singer-songwriter & dancer

• Children show me in their playful smiles the Divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
• For me the sweetest contact with God has no form. I close my eyes, look within, and enter a deep soft silence. The infinity of God’s creation embraces me.
• In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be Light and love. If we allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.
• Let us dream of tomorrow, where we can truly love from the Soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
• When I see children, I see the face of God. That’s why I love them so much. That’s what I see.

Susan Jeffers 1938-2012
American psychologist & author

• Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in the lives of those I love, it is for their highest good. From all things that are put before us all, we shall become stronger and more loving people. I am grateful for all the beauty and opportunity you put into my life. And in all that I do, I shall seek to be a channel for your love.
• The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.
• Too many of us seem to be searching for something ‘out there’ to make our lives complete. What we are all really searching for is the Divine essence that lives within.
• Your inner peace has nothing to do with your dramas of your life.
• Your joy, your happiness, your satisfaction and your ability to dance with life, depends solely on what you pay attention to.

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Shirley MacLaine 1934 American actress, dancer & author

• Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. It’s where all the fruit is.
• Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
• Each one of us has the responsibility to create the world in which we choose to live.
• I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.
• New Age thinking asks that each person take responsibility for everything that happens in life because everything in life is connected.

Robert Muller 1923-2010
Belgian author & assistant secretary-general of United Nations

• Each one of us is a temple of God.
• Every human being has stories to tell. Please tell them. They are part of the bloodstream of our cosmic journey, the transmission of our experience and wisdom to our descendants.
• I am as great as the thoughts I conceive. I am as great as the Universe I perceive. I am as great as the love of my heart. I am as great as the God in my Soul.
• I want my life to be a hymn to the Creator.
• Open your eyes, mind and heart to the astonishing miracles of life, to the beauty surrounding you, to the uniqueness of your being, to the wonders you can achieve.

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Anthony Robbins 1960
American author & life coach

• God’s delays are not God’s denials.
• Live with passion.
• There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you’re alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs.
• We can’t always control the events of our lives, but we can control what we decide to think, believe, feel, and do about those events.
• Words have the power to change how we feel.

Rumi 1207-1273
Afghan Sufi mystic & poet

• Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
• Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
• Respond to every call that excites your Spirit.
• What strikes the oyster does not damage the pearl.
• You are not a drop in the ocean… You are the entire ocean in a drop.

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Betty Shine 1929-2002
English spiritualist, author & healer

• Each one of us has been given mind energy to use. We should allow it to strengthen and expand, not keep it imprisoned within the confinement of limited beliefs.
• Human Beings are first and foremost energy Beings.
• Love in its purest form is the ultimate energy.
• There is a universal law that dictates that whatever we give out will be returned in full, often many times over.
• We all have different paths and we should follow the one that brings the most peace and satisfaction to ourselves.

Rudolf Steiner 1861-1925
Austrian scientist, philosopher & social reformer

• Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are sources of knowledge.
• Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility - these three forces are the very nerve of education.
• Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love and send them forth in freedom.
• To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.
• We find the instrument for the knowledge of God in ourselves, but we find God everywhere.

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Mother Teresa 1910-1997
Albanian-Indian Catholic nun

• Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
• I alone can't change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
• In the silence of the heart, God speaks.
• We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
• We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862
American naturalist, essayist & poet

• As a single footstep will not make a path on the Earth, so a single thought will not make a single pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
• Every child begins the world again.
• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.
• I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour.
• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.

Mark Twain 1835-1910
American writer, humorist & essayist

• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
• Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that crushed it.
• Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
• Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
• They did not know it was impossible, so they did it.

Lao Tzu 600BC
Ancient Chinese philosopher

• If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place.
• If you want to Awaken all of humanity, then Awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.
• Let it be still.. And it will gradually become clear.
• The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
• Use the light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.

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Neale Donald Walsch 1943
American author & channeller

• All of life is a conversation with God.
• All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.
• Mine is always your highest thought, your clearest word, your grandest feeling. Anything else is fromanother source. The highest though is always that thought which contains joy. The clearest words are those words that contain truth. The grandest feeling is that feeling you call love.
• The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as who you really are. There is no other reason to do anything.
• You are what you think you are.

Anthony Douglas Williams 1953
Canadian spiritualist, writer & author

• God’s DNA is the Universe.
• I see God every day... For God is in everything I see.
• Re-energize your Soul... Walk with Mother nature.
• Spirituality is not a religion.. It is a way of life.
• The miracle of life is enough for me to believe in miracles.

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