To look toward what is good and what leads us to seeing what we admire and want to go toward.
To remind us of who we can be.
To remind us of how great life can be (and is), no matter what.
All of them, in a sense, inspire, as they give us more breath of life, so I had to artificially draw a line, where the inspirers are the ones who have (or can have) an incredible effect on our lives and our perceptions.
Many have overcome things that put our problems into perspective, as little ones, not very consequential and very small compared to the joys of life.
Many have focused so greatly on developing wisdom that they can lead us to much greater happiness.
When you need recentering, regrounding, or reinspiring or just a boost, ponder these people and what they've done and what they stand for. Read about them, read their quotes of wisdom...
Think of who you admire, are inspired by, who you would like to be like - and then find out what it is that they have learned - and you'll be who and what you want to be, inexplainably drawn by simply deep exposure to these greater views and the higher wisdom. Post their pictures and you'll be drawn to being who they are simply by viewing their pictures.
How To Get In Touch With Who and What They Are:
Read books on or by them.
THE INSPIRERS
Nick Vijicic - Born with no arms and no legs, yet he lives with "no limits". Book Life Without Limits.
W. Mitchell - Burnt all over his body and face, later crippled in a plane crash, not an inspirational speaker...
Helen Keller - Blind and deaf, great author and lecturer. She altered our perception of the disabled and remapped the boundaries of sight and sense...
Michael Oher (Blind Side movie) - Book: "I Beat The Odds". Be the best player, best person I could be... Success: Food, roof overhead, decent clothes on my back.
Stephen Hawking - Totally paraplegic, totally awesome. Zero-Gravity Video. "My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.
THE ADMIRED - Of course, we do not profile all of these people here, as you can pop into the internet, seeing excellent summaries of the lives of the famous people on Wikipedia.com. Read the best books, including biographies and autobiographies about them.
By Category
Mom
Dad
Grandparents
Son, daughter
Teacher, coach
Happiest person you know
By Name (Political Leaders, Spiritual Or Religious Leaders, Thinkers/Scientists, Personally
Inspiring, Sports, Business/Money, Personal Growth, Creative/Arts, Philosophy (or
Psychology)
Political Leaders
Abraham Lincoln
Colin Powell
John F. Kennedy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Dwight Eisenhower
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
Margaret Thatcher
Nelson Mandela
Tony Blair
Barack Obama
Condolezza Rice
Jimmy Carter
Vaclav Havel
Hilary Clinton
Thomas Jefferson
Spiritual Or Religious Leaders
Mahatma Gandhi
Dalai Lama
Mother Teresa
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Pope John Paul II
Jesus Christ
Mohammed
Buddha (Siddhartha)
Billy Graham
Desmond Tutu
Thinkers, Scientists
Dr. Mehmet Oz
Albert Einstein
Buckminster Fuller (From the brink of the lake...)
Albert Schweitzer
Personally Inspiring
Helen Keller
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Oprah Winfrey
Princess Diana
Benjamin Franklin
Florence Nightingale
Business, Money
Henry Ford
Richard Branson
Bill Gates
Jon Huntsman (character)
Warren Buffett
Steve Jobs
Sports
Joe Montana
Michael Jordan
Tiger Woods
Lance Armstrong (also fight with cancer)
Personal Growth, Leadership
Anthony Robbins
Brian Tracy
Jim Rohn
John Maxwell
Oprah
Jack Canfield
Dale Carnegie
Norman Vincent Peale
Marianne Williamson
Barry Neil Kaufman
Werner Erhard
Creative, Arts
Will Smith
Tom Hanks
Stephen Spielberg
Philosophy (or Psychology)
William James
James Allen
George Bernard Shaw
Richard Carlson
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