Quotes, Mantras, and Words to Inspire!

Promise yourself
To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

Christian D. Larson

Lord Byron was born on January 22, 1788.
He wrote aphorisms, thoughts, poems, letters and very beautiful works. I have collected few of his aphorisms.

"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."

“There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
The earth is but the music of the spheres.”

“Are not the mountains, waves, and skies as much a part of me, as I of them?

"There are four questions of value in life.
What is sacred?
Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for and what is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same. Only love."

"Here’s a sigh to those who love me,
And a smile to those who hate;
And whatever sky’s above me,
Here’s a heart for every fate.”

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops
Of the snow-shining mountains.—Beautiful!
I linger yet with Nature, for the night
Hath been to me a more familiar face
Than that of man; and in her starry shade
Of dim and solitary loveliness,
I learn'd the language of another world.”

"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little we know that which we are!"

"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray"

"There are two Souls, whose equal flow 
In gentle stream so calmly run, 
That when they part—they part?—ah no! 
They cannot part—those Souls are One"

“The power of thought is the magic of the mind.” 

“Between two worlds life hovers like a star,
'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
How little do we know that which we are!
How less what we may be! The eternal surge
Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar
Our bubbles; as the old burst, new emerge,
Lash'd from the foam of ages; while the graves
Of Empires heave but like some passing waves.”

When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home,
Let him combat for that of his neighbours;
Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome,
And get knocked on the head for his labours.

To do good to Mankind is the chivalrous plan,
And is always as nobly requited;
Then battle fro Freedom wherever you can,
And, if not shot or hanged, you'll get knighted"

Read, study, and always work with ethics and passion; reason with your head and learn to say no; be rebellious for just cause, defend nature and the weakest; do not be conformists and do not queue to the winner's cart; be strong and be free, otherwise when you are old and weak you will regret the mountains that you have not climbed and the battles that you have not fought.
MARIO RIGONI STERN

“L’infinito” di Giacomo Leopardi ( original )

Sempre caro mi fu quest’ermo colle,
e questa siepe, che da tanta parte
dell’ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude.
Ma sedendo e mirando, interminati
spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani
silenzi, e profondissima quiete
io nel pensier mi fingo; ove per poco
il cor non si spaura. E come il vento
odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello
infinito silenzio a questa voce
vo comparando: e mi sovvien l’eterno,
e le morte stagioni, e la presente
e viva, e il suon di lei. Così tra questa
immensità s’annega il pensier mio:
e il naufragar m’è dolce in questo mare.

“L’infinito” of Giacomo Leopardi translated in english

Always dear to me was this solitary hill
and this hedge, which, from so many parts
of the last horizon, the sight excludes.
But sitting and aming endless
spaces beyond it, and superhuman
silences, and the deepest quiet,
I fake myself in my thoughts; where almost
my heart scares. As the wind
I hear rustling through these trees, I, that
infinite silence, to this voice
keep comparing: and I feel the eternal,
the dead seasons, the present,
and living one, and the sound of her. So in this
immensity drown my own thoughts:
and sinking in this sea is sweet to me.

Each day I live
I want to be
A day to give
The best of me
I'm only one
But not alone
My finest day
Is yet unknown

I broke my heart
Fought every gain
To taste the sweet
I face the pain
I rise and fall
Yet through it all
This much remains

I want one moment in time
When I'm more than I thought I could be
When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away
And the answers are all up to me
Give me one moment in time
When I'm racing with destiny
Then in that one moment of time
I will feel
I will feel eternity
Lyrics :"One moment in time- Whitney Houston"

-"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
Marcus Aurelius

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

J.M. Barrie / Peter Pan

"At the end of the day I am at peace because my intentions are good and my heart is pure."

The best years of our life(I migliori anni della nostra vita)

I think that everyday is like a miraculous fishing
and how lovely to fish suspended over a soft cloudy rose
me like a gentleman
and you like a wife
while outside the window
only dust flies
there is storm air.

Will be that
we are from another distant planet
but world from here is like only a secret fall
everybody wants everything for then know
that is nothing,
we'll not do like other people
they are and will be forever

The best years of our life
The best years of our life,

Tightly hold me that none night is infinte,
The best years of our life
Tightly hold me that none night is infinte,
The best years of our life

I think is amazing stay hug and mute in dark
like boxers after a match
like the last survivors,
maybe a day we'll find
that we didn't lost ourselves
and all unhappiness
was never be reality.

Renato Zero( I Migliori anni della nostra vita. Translation)

We are hungry for tenderness,
in a world where everything abounds
we are poor of this feeling
which is like a caress
for our heart
we need these small gestures
that make us feel good
Tenderness
is a disinterested and generous love,
that does not ask anything else
to be understood and appreciated.

Alda Merini

DESIDERATA

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
And remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly & clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull & ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud & aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain & bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing future of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment
it is perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue & loneliness.
Beyond wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees & the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labours & aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery & broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.       

Max Ehrmann

Perseo( "Per aspera ad astra")

“If you do a job in a principled way, with diligence, energy and patience, if you keep yourself free of distractions, and keep the spirit inside you undamaged, as if you might have to give it back at any moment— If you can embrace this without fear or expectation—can find fulfilment in what you’re doing now, as Nature intended, and in superhuman truthfulness (every word, every utterance)—then your life will be happy. No one can prevent that.” Marco Aurelio

Don’t ever forget these things: The nature of the world. My nature. How I relate to the world. What proportion of it I make up. That you are part of nature, and no one can prevent you from speaking and acting in harmony with it, always.”
Marco Aurelio

Perseo

-"And wherever I go, I will always find the Sun, the Moon and the Stars; I will find dreams and omens, and I will converse with the gods! "- Epictetus

-"Things are connected by invisible bonds: you can't pluck a flower without disturbing a star.”- Galileo Galilei 

-"When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one’s energy, that one’s modesty, another’s generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we’re practically showered with them. It’s good to keep this in mind.”- Marcus Aurelius

Perseo

"I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too."

Queen Elizabeth I


"As long as I live I will have control over my being."

Artemisia Gentileschi

There's a moon rising slowly through the trees
There's a moon shining bright upon my feet
And tonight the dogs are coming to capture me
Now I'm standing in the wake of forty years
And from this prison I have broken free and clear
And I'm praying that the morning won't catch me here
I want to live like a kid with holes in his boots
I want to climb like a child in a tree
I want to love like the man with nothing to lose
I want to die with my heart on my sleeve
I'll forget about the things that I have done
I'll forget about the years out on the run
And dream of every woman I've ever loved
Cause I know I was not the only guilty man
Just the one who worked the blood on his hands
And tonight I'm gonna find me a second chance
I wanna live like a kid with holes in his boots
I wanna climb like a child in a tree
I wanna love like the man with nothing to lose
And die with my heart on my sleeve
Now the moon has risen straight across the sky
Better move along cause they ain't far behind
Come morning I'll be crossing the next state line
And I will walk upon the land that I will own
And I will build a place that I can call my home
And I'll still be singing when I get old
I wanna live like a kid with holes in his boots
I wanna climb like a child in a tree
I wanna love like the man with nothing to lose
And die with my heart on my sleeve
I wanna live like a kid with holes in his boots
I wanna climb like a child in a tree
I wanna love like the man with nothing to lose
And die with my heart on my sleeve
And die with my heart on my sleeve.

Peter Bradley Adams

Leave behind your sorrows
Let this day be the last
Tomorrow there'll be sunshine
And all this darkness past
Big wheels roll through fields
Where sunlight streams
Meet me in a land of hope and dreams

Bruce Springsteen ( Land of hope and dreams)

Siamo onde dello stesso mare, foglie dello stesso albero, fiori dello stesso giardino.
(We are waves of the same sea, leaves of the same tree, flowers of the same garden)

Lucio Anneo Seneca

Perseo( Send Love, Spread Peace)

"All men have the stars ,but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent.
You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them....In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night . . . You--only you--will have stars that can laugh!
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you . . .It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh . . ."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Mother Teresa

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Little darling, it's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling, it feels like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces
Little darling, it seems like years since it's been here

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
And I say it's all right

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes
Sun, sun, sun, here it comes…

The Beatles

Non ti arrendere, ancora sei in tempo
per arrivare e cominciar di nuovo,
accettare le tue ombre
seppellire le tue paure
liberare il buonsenso,
riprendere il volo.

Non ti arrendere perche’ la vita e cosi’
Continuare il viaggio
Perseguire i sogni
Sciogliere il tempo
togliere le macerie
e scoperchiare il cielo.

Non ti arrendere, per favore non cedere
malgrado il freddo bruci
malgrado la paura morda
malgrado il sole si nasconda
E taccia il vento
Ancora c’e’ fuoco nella tua anima
Ancora c’e’ vita nei tuoi sogni.

Perche’ la vita e’ tua
e tuo anche il desiderio
Perche lo hai voluto e perche’ ti amo
Perche’ esiste il vino e l’amore,
e’ vero.
Perche’ non vi sono ferite che non curi il tempo

Aprire le porte
Togliere i catenacci
Abbandonare le muraglie
Che ti protessero
Vivere la vita e accettare la sfida
Recuperare il sorriso
Provare un canto
Abbassare la guardia e stendere le mani
aprire le ali
e tentare di nuovo
Celebrare la vita e riprendere i cieli.

Non ti arrendere, per favore non cedere
malgrado il freddo bruci
malgrado la paura morda
malgrado il sole tramonti e taccia il vento,
ancora c’e fuoco nella tua anima,
ancora c’e vita nei tuoi sogni,
perche’ ogni giorno e’ un nuovo inizio
perche’ questa e’ l’ora e il miglior momento
perche’ non sei sola, perché io ti amo.

Mario Benedetti

TRANSLATION

Don't give up, you're still on time
to get there and start again,
accept your shadows
bury your fears
free common sense,
resume flight.
Don't give up because life is like this
Continue the journey
Pursuing dreams
Melt the time
remove the rubble and uncover the sky.
Don't give up, please don't give up
Despite the cold burns
despite the fear it bites
despite the sun hiding
And shut up the wind
There is still fire in your soul
There is still life in your dreams.
Because life is yours
and your desire too
Why did you want it and why do I love you
Because wine and love exist, it's true.
Because there are no wounds that do not cure time Open the doors
Remove the bolts
Leaving the walls
That protected you
Live life and accept the challenge
Recover the smile
Try a song
Lower your guard and stretch out your hands spread wings and try again
Celebrate life and take back the skies.
Don't give up, please don't give up
Despite the cold burns despite the fear it bites despite the sun setting and keeping the wind silent, there is still fire in your soul, there is still life in your dreams, because every day is a new beginning because this is the time and the best moment because you are not alone, because I love you.

Mario Benedetti

Perseo (Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.) . Send LOVE, Spread PEACE.

Have you ever felt like nobody was there?
Have you ever felt forgotten in the middle of nowhere?
Have you ever felt like you could disappear?
Like you could fall, and no one would hear?

Well, let that lonely feeling wash away
Maybe there's a reason to believe you'll be okay
'Cause when you don't feel strong enough to stand
You can reach, reach out your hand

And oh, someone will coming running
And I know, they'll take you home

Even when the dark comes crashing through
When you need a friend to carry you
And when you're broken on the ground
You will be found

So let the sun come streaming in
'Cause you'll reach up and you'll rise again
Lift your head and look around
You will be found
You will be found
You will be found
You will be found
You will be found

Young friend, if you love this is the miracle of life. Enter the dream with open eyes and live it with firm love. The unlived dream is a star to be left in heaven. Love your woman without asking anything other than the eternal question that makes the old hearts live with nostalgia. But remember that the more she will love you, the less she will be able to tell you. Look her in the eyes so that the fingers are bound with the desperate desire to join again; and your hands and eyes say the sure promises of your tomorrow. But still remember, that if bodies are reflected in the eyes, souls are seen in misfortunes. Don't feel humiliated in recognizing one of her qualities that you don't have. Do not believe yourself superior since only life will tell your different misfortune. Do not impose your will on words, but only by example. This bride, your companion on that unknown path which is life, love her and defend her, because tomorrow she can be your refuge. And be sincere young friend, if love is strong, every destiny will make you smile. Love her like the sun you invoke in the morning. Respect her like a flower waiting for the light of love. Be this for her, and since this must be her for you, thank God together, who granted you the brightest grace of life! (St. Augustine)

"Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."

John Muir