Motivational Quotes: Uninspired? Inspire Another to Get You Going
Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2008
by Jeff Brown
Inner Projection
Are you uninspired? Down and out? Stop looking at yourself and look to the other. Avoid self-indulgent healing philosophies and heal through the looking-to-others philosophy. Praise them, the other, those in need. Lift them off the shelf, get them and you outside yourselves. Encourage gentle spirits. Take the unhappy, unwanted, unhopeful, uncaring, uncared for off the shelf. Dust them off and get you and them outside yourselves. Reach out.
Degrading, debilitating, negating thoughts running rampant in your head? Keep it up and you'll soon be of the walking dead. Live. Give. Learn of the energy that comes from speaking words of encouragement, truth, honesty, straightforwardness. And let people speak of your oddness. Give it to them in droves.
Don't keep the negatives in your head. That is sin. Speak only of the positive, the encouraging to yourself and others over and over and again. Over and again. Sing songs of love to the most important person in your life. YOU! Of course, the love begins here and branches out. Don't seek reverse-love, mere acceptance of others. It will only kill. Be strong in your understanding of the right, take it in and send it back out . . . in droves!
Feel the energy of hope, compassion, light, passion, shine and bleed into your day, the day of others . . . and touch the sun that shines at the heals and hands of He who bled for all. The sacrifice of giving will not only light your way but that of all your strangers and friends. Build transformer toys for your kids to see, stranger into friend to set yourself free. Find your strangers, they are there, and let them in. Give.
Uninspired? Quit your job. Quit your address. Quit your bad habits. Quit your comfort. Come out of your zone. Stop zoning. Has your voice lost its backbone, its bite, its bark? Kick your ass and get going. Find that which inspires, makes you perspire, gets you hot. What are you waiting for? Death? Excessive regret? Are you a collector of regret debt? Don't do it. Find what you need to do. Do it. Do it today. Ignore what "they" say.
Slavery and oppression of women were popular once. Are these good ideas? Tell all people, individuals, and groups who lie to you, who blacken the inside of you, to go away. Tell them. Yell to them to "Go AWAY! I HAVE MY VOICE AND I'M SAYING WHAT I HAVE TO SAY. AND I'M BEGINNING TODAY!"
Don't let them kill you slowly, from the inside out. We've seen youth become old before its time. It's unnecessary, even at ninety, one-hudred-one. We love you too much to see you end up this way. Go out with beanie, propeller hat in tact.
Desire to reach higher. Become a man by becoming a father. There is no manhood in merely getting sex, drinking, or being a train wreck. True manhood comes in being responsible for the life, the welfare, the betterment, the improvement, the giving to little ones, the little lives needing so much your guidance. Get a wife. Help her to help others. Sacrifice of the self for little ones, the others, the needy, the bleeding-on-the-insiders of life. Get out of your self, sacrifice and find life by the giving of it to others, little piece at a time. Release the sublime. Don't be selfish. Give it away. Give it in spades, and feel the power of the giving. Feel life!
Get rid of your therapist and get to giving to others. Feel the healing begin. Fix yourself from the outside in.
Keep your tongue in check. Your promises in tow. Never release words that should have never been let go. This is the country of freedom of speech, not freedom of inserting foot in mouth. Hearts are made of flesh not metal. Treat them as such.
But most of all, stop conforming. I'm not talking about wearing leather, tattoos, and spiked hair, for this conformist wears his suit of conformity just like the IBM business man in his suit going to work. Rather, wear your suit and tie to a speed metal concert and your leather and chains to your Wall Street job. Better yet, dress normally, think deeply beyond the words, read, carry the weapon of an open mind and giving heart and reach out to aid not merely to be different. But most of all, rock on, rock on into that good night, and rock on, rock hard dudette.
Quotes: Get Inspired
"That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false."-- Paul Valery
"Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it."-- Eknath Easwaran
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."-- The Dalai Lama
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."-- Leo Buscaglia
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find--you're never sorry you were kind."-- Herb Prochnow
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction."-- E. F. Schumacher
"The fool's mind wanders, the wise mind wonders."-- Patrick J. Mills
"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it."-- Arab proverb
"Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."-- Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi
"It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."-- Nol Coward
"Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment."-- Bill Walsh
"Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, and the beautiful in art."-- George Sand
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."-- Leonardo da Vinci
"Ability is important, dependability is critical!"-- Alexander Lockheart
"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity..."-- Edward de Bono
"The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination."-- John Schaar
"People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little."-- Jean Jacques Rousseau
"A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage-- only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet."-- Hendrick Hertzberg
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."-- Ben Franklin
"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."-- Peter Devries
"No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. You must live for others if you wish to live for yourself."-- Seneca
"The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man."-- Frank Pittman
"Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together." -- Russell Banks
"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better."-- Barbara Hetcher
"An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing."-- Zig Ziglar
"How wrong it is for those who love not to express their love."-- Salmon P. Chase
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."-- William Arthur Ward
"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."-- Jean Baptiste Massieu
"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."-- Albert Schweitzer
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."-- Oscar Wilde
"When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves."-- William Arthur Ward
"There's no such thing as a 'natural.' A natural dancer has to practice hard. A natural painter has to paint all the time."-- Joe Louis
"You can never be too curious. Pursue at least one new idea or learn one thing every day. An alert, flexible mind bounces back from trouble more easily."-- Unknown
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"It is not where you begin, it is where you end that counts."-- Faith Littlefield
"We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy, and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all."-- Dorothy Day
"What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows."-- Alexandra Stoddard
"Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win."-- Bobby Knight
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation."-- Robert Schuller
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)Open mind & giving heart. Then all predjudice would be erased and love would conquer all. Let's get busy !Yes, Jeanne, let's!
hi jeff, your article was well written and interesting and your quotes were definitely worth reading. thanks for sharing, best regards, sue thomThanks Susan. I use a channeling technique I teach my students. What I do is read some of the quotes in the area I'm addressing--success,education,passion, etc.--and then just begin writing my prose / poem intro. producing my own insights based on personal experience that jibe with the chosen quotes. It usually produces some nice results. Glad you like 'em. And yes, I choose quotes that are intriguing and of merit. I attempt to weed out the trivial and trite. "
Hi Jeff, nicely done. "the attitude of gratitude" Now there's a reality that would solve 99.999% of our problems. Blessings to you!Yes, I was told by a wise spiritual leader that most of what I accomplished in this world would be simply based on gratitude. Imagine that? But how many people live a thankless life. Just check out the average daily experience on the street and you'll know what I mean. Too little thanks in this world. Thanks for stopping by.
Thanks Jeff, this is a fantastic collection of inspiration, including your comments. I bet you you received encouragement having shared such powerful information. "Speak only of the positive", "Sing songs of love". I love it.Jim, thanks so much for stopping by and commenting. Yes, I have received encouragement, from people but mostly from a more devine source. And I, like those who read these words, are encouraged. I seldom live up to what I write, but I find that by writing encouraging words on a regular basis (writen prayers?) I try harder and am more successful at living the words I write, even the words I use with others and in prayer. God bless.
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