A Quote a Day....

A great quote truly has the capacity to inspire and motivate us, to change us, to challenge us, to make us think and to make us smile. They take mere seconds to read, but their affects can last a lifetime and, like a cup of tea on a cold morning, they can soothe the heart and soul.

The power of positive affirmations and inspiring words is extraordinary; words are our most poweful form of expression. The words and thoughts we speak and think become the way we see ourselves and the world. 

The first of Don Ruiz's inspirational 'Four Agreements' is to Be impeccable with your word : 

"Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love."

So, with that in mind, here are my top 20 inspirational, transformational and thought-provoking quotes -

"We are what we believe we are" 
C S Lewis

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” 
Marilyn Monroe

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float.

 To gain all while you give.

To roam the roads of lands remote.

To travel is to live”

Hans Christian Andersen

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time."
Marcel Proust

“We should all start to live before we get old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets”

Marilyn Monroe

                     

“Keep close to Nature’s heart…and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.” 

John Muir

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough”

Mae West

“The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche an accomplished his task; who leaves the world better  than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem,  or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting”

E E Cummings

“you are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while”

Eckart Tolle

“The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

Christopher McCandless

“Do one thing everyday that scares you”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“There are far far better things ahead than any we leave behind”

C S Lewis

“So we shall let the reader answer this for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed”

Hunter S Thompson

“It matters not who you love, why you love, where you love, when you love or how you love. It matters only that you love”

John Lennon