Inspirer Quotes

“Your heart will challenge you, but also reward you beyond your wildest dreams.”
― Stefan Emunds, Holistic Self-realization

“Holistic self-realization is the realization of your heart’s desire. Why holistic? Because it involves your entire being. ”
― Stefan Emunds, Holistic Self-realization

“I will be a fisher of souls!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Your heart doesn’t like shady strategies.”
― Stefan Emunds, Holistic Self-realization

“Awaken your heart!”
― Stefan Emunds, Holistic Self-realization

“Gravitate towards your heart’s desire!”
― Stefan Emunds, Holistic Self-realization

“Donot wait for an excuse
to live fully.
Right this minute, start and stop
when you want.
Jump or walk, when you want
Smile from ear to ear or cry
when you want.
When it feels right-
On your terms.
Live only on your terms.”
― Sahndra Fon Dufe

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
― Katherine Hepburn, The Private World of Katharine Hepburn

“Modern society tends to operate in ways that isolate us in our littleness. We are encouraged to be consumers and economic units. We are assailed by advertising which carries the constant message that individual indulgence is all that matters. All this serves to weaken our spirit and put our world at risk. As our society becomes more and more spiritually impoverished, it is like a forest drying out in the heat of summer. The danger of a forest fire grows.
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If the story we are living is not important, then our life will peter into apathy and we will be defenceless against tyranny and oppression.
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There will always be bad big stories waiting to sweep us away. Indeed, we are already involved in them. By being consumer citizens we collude with all manner of ill: factory farming, armaments production, environmental damage, wars to protect oil supplies, third world debt, to name but a few. It is important to do better than this, to find a more noble story.
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The Buddha enabled many people to see possibilities for their lives that they had not perceived before they met him. That is the function of a sage. He was able to speak the other person's language and to see their life in terms of the bigger picture how new meaning could be injected into the person's little story so that it began to serve the great story of peace and compassion in the world. He was an inspirer.”
― David Brazier, The Feeling Buddha: A Buddhist Psychology of Character, Adversity and Passion