Ray Charles Quotes

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.

I used to be a free spirit.

I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.

I like to be a free soul.

Open up your plans and damn you're free!

A more happy mind leads to quietness and clarity. And that clarity helps you have a greater capacity to do more and to become more successful and more giving.

Every man has within him only one life and one nature ... It behooves a man to look within himself and turn to the best dedication possible those endowments he has from his Maker. You do no wrong in questioning what once you held to be right for you, if now it has come to seem wrong. Put away all thought of being bound. We do not want you bound. No one who is not free can give freely.

You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.

Don't save up love like you're trying to retire on it; give it away like you're made of it.

Whatever I have given, I have gained.

I'm on a mission to help people grow and give. The more they grow the more they can give, the more life they build, the greater the quality of their life.

The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.

Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.

The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best

Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

I now know that me giving my all and giving my best will result in my needs being taken care of and provided for.

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

I've found that giving gifts is transformative. It makes me better. It clarifies my thinking and allows me to do better work.

I love to not defend ever and to open my mind and take in what can always add to me, not take away from me.

The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.

Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.