Inspiration Café

There are times when we need a lift or gentle nudge in the form of inspiration to help get us moving.

Now and then we stumble upon an phrase or words of wisdom that are exactly what we need to give us that boost.

I have assembled a collection of inspirational quotes on life, the human condition, and "the self" that I have found uplifting and pertain to the Essential Life Skills.
Near the bottom are links to some inspiring verses and insights.
Enjoy!

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself – your strengths and your limitations - in contrast to depending on confirmation from others.
Judith M. Bardwick

Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues.
Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
Sydney J. Harris

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison

When we all think alike, no one has to think at all.
Walter Lippman

Learn to live with self and you will learn to live with others.
Edgar Cayce

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.
Max De Pree

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
Benjamin Franklin

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis

By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First by reflection which is noblest;
Second by imitation which is easiest;
And third by experience, which is bitterest. Confucius

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimentions. Oliver Wendell Homes

To me every hour of the light and the dark is a miracle, every cubic inch of space is a miracle.
Walt Whitman

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams.
Who looks inside, awakens. Carl Jung

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make our world.
Suddhartha Guatama Buddha

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Abraham Maslow

Your only obligation in this or any other lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Richard Bach

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can. John Wooden

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. George Savile Halifax

Inspiration Café - Part 2 More Inspirational Quotes