Inspirational Quotes

Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.

Heraclitus Quotes

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Perception The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

Change Impermanence Nothing endures but change.

Bigotry Harm Intolerance Prejudice Sacred Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Contradiction Duality Interconnectedness Paradox Unity Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Disposal Rejection Worthlessness Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.

Cultivation Inner Understanding Judgment Mindset Perception Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

New Beginnings Optimism Renewal The sun is new each day.

Boredom Change Control Freedom Repetition To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

Peace Prevention Violence Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Change Flow Impermanence Time You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

Learning Understanding Much learning does not teach understanding.

Adversity Harmony Transformation Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Beauty Divinity Goodness Human Nature Justice To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Nature Nature is wont to hide herself.

Character Fate A man's character is his fate.

Awareness Discovery Expectation If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

Character Divinity Guardian Integrity Self-Development A man's character is his guardian divinity.

Collaboration Inaction Interconnectedness Participation Universal Impact Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Balance Caution Danger Prosperity Risk No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

Desire Morality Sacrifice Self-Control It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Character Destiny Identity Integrity Value Character is destiny.

Change Evolution Growth Identity No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Duality Existence God Wholeness God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Deception Ignorance Self-awareness Truth Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Accountability Justice Truth Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Marriage Partnership Responsibility Support The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - and sometimes three.

Character Development Diligence Patience Perseverance Self-Improvement Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Authenticity Childlikeness Play Self-Discovery Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Balance Duality Interconnectedness Unity The way up and the way down are one and the same.

Change Impermanence Time You cannot step into the same river twice.