My Top 20 Quotes To Inspire.

It's one of those days where I just like to reflect on old books I have read and lessons I encountered in movies, magazines and other places that informed some of the decisions I have taken in my life. So, I thought to share some of those quotes and lessons to inspire;

1. "Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning."

-Paulo Coelho, "Eleven Minutes"

2. "There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you are meant to be"

- John Lennon

3. “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.

-Maya Angelou.

4. "It always seems impossible until it's done."

- Nelson Mandela

5.“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

-Dalai Lama

6. “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”

-Terry Pratchett

7. "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. "

-Mark Twain.

8. "Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value."

-Albert Einstein

9. "The successful warrior is the average man, with laserlike focus."

-Bruce Lee

10. "The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors."

-Napoleon Hill

11. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

Margaret Thatcher

12. "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

-Maya Angelou

13. "You never regret being kind."

Nicole Shepherd

14. "View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?"

-Victor Frankl

15. "Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, And he who rolls a stone will have it roll back on him."

-Proverbs 26:27, The Bible.

16. "Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."

-John F. Kennedy

17. "A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

-J.P. Morgan

18. “Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”

Morrie in "Tuesdays with Morrie" By Mitch Albom.

19. "Athena's great problem was that she was a woman of the twenty-second century living in the twenty-first, and making no secret of the fact, either. Did she pay a price? She certainly did. But she would have paid a still higher price if she had repressed her natural exuberance. She would have been bitter, frustrated, always concerned about "what other people might think," always saying, "I'll just sort these things out, then I'll devote myself to my dream," always complaining "that the conditions are never quite right."“

— Paulo Coelho's " The Witch of Portobello"

20. “If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you. If that person doesn't walk away, you will surely endure many years of suffering with him or her. Walking away may hurt for a while, but your heart will eventually heal. Then you can choose what you really want. You will find that you don't need to trust others as much as you need to trust yourself to make the right choices.”

― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom