“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.”
Phillips Brooks
StrengthFaith
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · INSPIRATIONAL
Inspirational Quotes
Read 200 of the best inspirational quotes on hope, kindness, love, faith and life from Helen Keller, Kahlil Gibran, Tagore, Emerson and more.
“Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.”
Kahlil Gibran
LoveGiving
“But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”
Kahlil Gibran
LoveRelationships
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
Kahlil Gibran
NatureJoy
“Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'”
Kahlil Gibran
TruthHumility
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.”
Kahlil Gibran
JoySorrow
“Love is life in its fulness like the cup with its wine.”
Rabindranath Tagore
LoveLife
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
Rabindranath Tagore
PerspectiveWisdom
“The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.”
Rabindranath Tagore
LifeNature
“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”
Swami Vivekananda
ServiceKindness
“Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.”
Swami Vivekananda
GodCompassion
“Earth laughs in flowers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
NatureJoy
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
BeginningsGrowth
“To fill the hour - that is happiness.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
HappinessPresent
“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
FriendshipTrust
“We need the tonic of wildness.”
Henry David Thoreau
NatureFreedom
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
Henry David Thoreau
DreamsLife
“Every child begins the world again.”
Henry David Thoreau
ChildrenHope
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
Walt Whitman
Self-AcceptanceIndividuality
“Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
Walt Whitman
NatureGrowth
“Forever - is composed of Nows.”
Emily Dickinson
PresentTime
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
Emily Dickinson
LifeGratitude
“I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination.”
John Keats
HeartImagination
“Come forth into the light of things, let Nature be your teacher.”
William Wordsworth
NatureLearning
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wild Flower, hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour.”
William Blake
WonderNature