Inspirational Phrases, Quotes, & Stories

Come to this thread to share your inspirational words that motivate and lift your spirits. When we are feeling down, we all need inspiration to push us forward.

I’ll start:

One reason people are resistant to change is because they focus on what they have to give up, instead of what they have to gain.

 

If you think you can or can’t, you’re right.

 

Often, the way Forward also requires a Back or Sideways step, but it is in the movement of dance where we can rediscover our flow - amongst Positive waves

 

Where ever you go... There you are.

 

The Minute

I have only just a minute,

Only sixty seconds in it.

Forced upon me, can’t refuse it.

Didn’t seek it, didn’t choose it.

But it’s up to me to use it.

I must suffer if I lose it.

Give account if I abuse it.

Just a tiny little minute,

but eternity is in it.

-Dr. Benjamin E. Mays

 

Always forward. Forward always.

 

And though she may be little, she is fierce. - Shakespeare

 

“Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt”

William Shakespeare

 

"The only way you're gonna pull through this is to accept the fact you're already dead."

I use the same theory for iracing at Daytona or Talladega.

"the only way you're gonna pull through this is to accept the fact that you've already been wrecked".

 

Its easy to feel like there is something wrong with you because you don't seem to be fitting in. You don't seem to make friends or have a hard time maintaining relationships. When in fact things couldn't be more right and you're exactly where you need to be.

A lot of people say you should love yourself, or you should be confident in yourself. With good intentions people are giving toxic advice. Too much emphasis is placed on traits like intelligence, confidence, and kindness when such superficial traits says nothing about the quality or depth of a person.

 

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

 

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ...

 

One of my favs

 

With no expectations anything can become