by Katherine Hurst: Need a little inspiration to help see you through the end of the summer? Then you’re in luck!
Here are 8 powerful lessons from some of our world’s most inspirational thinkers:
1. Your Thoughts Create Your World
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” – Buddha
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right” – Henry Ford
“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” – Willie Nelson
2. Do What You Love – and The Rest Will Follow
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” – Rumi
“…the only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald
3. Worry is a Waste of Your Time
“If there is no solution to the problem then don’t waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don’t waste time worrying about it.” – Dalai Lama XIV
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy” – Leo Buscaglia
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened” – Mark Twain
4. Giving is Receiving
“No one has ever become poor by giving” – Ann Frank
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
“To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. We are All Limitless Beings
“The sky is not my limit…I am” – T.F.Hodge
“Limits, like fear, is often an illusion” – Michael Jordan
“The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind” – Rumi
6. When You Judge Another, You Only Judge Yourself
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” – Wayne Dyer
“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I’m not perfect
-and I don’t live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers…
make sure your hands are clean!” – Bob Marley
7. Let Go To Live
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
“Letting go has never been easy, but holding on can be as difficult. Yet strength is measured not by holding on, but by letting go.” – Len Santos
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber
8. Life is a Journey – There is No Destination
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
“May you live all the days of your life.” – Jonathan Swift