Inspiring words and uplifting ideas can help us get through even the toughest days.

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Every week, we will feature an inspiring idea, quotation or phrase on the Spirited Movement site.  Please let us know what you think of these.n addition, please share your favorite inspirations!

"Faith is something greater than ourselves which enables us to do what we have said we will do, to press forward when we are tired, hurt or afraid, to keep going when the challenge seems overwhelming and the course is entirely uncertain."

-- Unknown

"What lies behind us and what lies before us

are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I get up,

I walk,

I fall down,

meanwhile,

I keep dancing."

-- Rabbi Hiller

"We know what we are

but not what we may be."

-- William Shakespeare

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.                                                                 Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."                                                      -- Ella Fitzgerald

"Turn obstacles into fuel, just as fire does."

-- Marcus Aurelius

“Bravery is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.”
-- Michel de Montaigne


"Keep your thoughts positive because your
thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive, because
your words become your behavior.
Keep your behavior positive, because your
behavior becomes your habits.
Keep your habits positive, because your habits
become your values.
Keep your values positive, because your values
become your destiny."

-- Mahatma Gandhi


"Without the assistance of the Divine Being . . . . I cannot succeed.
With that assistance, I cannot fail."

-- Abraham Lincoln


"No matter what looms ahead,
if you can eat today,
enjoy the sunlight today,
mix good cheer with friends today,
enjoy it and bless God for it."

-- Henry Ward Beecher


"What actions are most excellent?

To gladden the heart
of a human being.
To feed the hungry.
To help the afflicted.
To lighten the sorrow
of the sorrowful.
To remove the wrongs
of the injured.
That person is the
most beloved of God
who does most good
to God's creatures."

-- The Prophet Muhammed


"To be nobody but yourself -- in a world
which is doing its best, night and day
to make you everybody else --
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting."

-- e.e. cummings


"I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for."

-- John Mayer
from the album "Heavier Things"


"We would accomplish many more things if we did
not think of them as impossible."

-- C. Malesherbez


"Drama is very important in life:  You have to come on with a bang.
You never want to go out with a whimper."

-- Julia Child


"What you are looking for is what is looking for you." 
-- St. Francis of Assisi


"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes."
-- Marcel Proust


"I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's
hard enough to find your way around Chinatown."
-- Woody Allen


-- "I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell."
Walt Whitman


"What stops death is awareness."
-- Don Juan


"What you WANT is irrelevant, what you've CHOSEN is at hand."
-- Mr. Spock


"Do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you."
-- Yogananda


"There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way."
-- Buddha


"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle.
 The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-- Albert Einstein


"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
-- Mother Teresa