Daily Inspiration

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
—Thomas Jefferson

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
—John Lubbock

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.
—Fulton J. Sheen

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
—Abraham Lincoln

You can’t let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.
—John Wooden

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
—Frank A. Clark

Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you’ll be criticized anyway.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
—Ayn Rand

Be an independent thinker at all times, and ignore anyone who attempts to define you in a limiting way.
—Sherry Argov

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what’s right.
—Brigham Young