SOUL AFLAME!

[knightofalbion]

This thread is for inspirational quotations, poems and short stories. If there is something that has touched your soul, led you to a higher path or given you strength in a time of adversity, then please add it here.
If it has inspired you, the chances are it will inspire others too and to help each other along is the duty of every soul.
Into the light!

All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.

The heart that gives, gathers

• Marianne Moore

Let us see what love can do

• William Penn

Come to the edge
'We might fall'
Come to the edge
'It's too high'
Come to the edge!
And they came
And he pushed
And they flew

• Christopher Logue

Our patience will achieve more than our force

• Edmund Burke

We are not creatures of circumstance, we are creators of circumstance

• Benjamin Disraeli

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams

• Eleanor Roosevelt

My parish priest said to me apropos of nothing in particular,
'The best way to pray is the way you pray best.'

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise

• Sigmund Freud

All that is gold does not glitter
Not all those who wander are lost
The old that is strong does not wither
Deep roots are not reached by the frost

• J.R.R. Tolkein

'Looking back I am grateful for every experience, especially the pain and the sorrow, for from them I learnt compassion, empathy and understanding'

The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong at the broken places

• Ernest Hemingway

The things that make me different are the things that make me

• A.A. Milne

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul

• St Augustine

If you planted hope today in a heart that felt alone,
If you caused a laugh that chased some tears away,
If someone's burden was made lighter because of your kindness,
Then your day was well spent

• Anonymous

Life is God's gift to us. What we do with it is our gift to God.

• A.R. Bernard

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm

• Abraham Lincoln

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do

• Steve Jobs

Compassion brings us to a stop and for a moment we rise above ourselves

• Mason Cooley

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself: the true unhappiness is in doing it

• Democritus

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back

• Arthur Rubenstein

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud

• Maya Angelou

[ Never underestimate the power and impact a well-timed kind word, hug, bunch of flowers, or just being there for them, can make in someone's life ...]

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are

• Joseph Campbell

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think

• Billy Graham

(Stay positive)

Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude

• Thomas Jefferson

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you; love, prayer and forgiveness

• H. Jackson Browne Jr