Daily Inspiration

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
~ Dalai Lama

What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation…we must follow what brings us alive.
~ Jack Kornfield

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
~ Cecil B. DeMille

Self-dedication is a spiritual experience.
~ Cesar Chavez

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
—Beverly Sills

A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication are required to make that vision a reality.
~ Strive Masiyiwa

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.
—C. JoyBell C.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.
—John Lennon