Inspiration Quotes

There are no tyrants if there are no slaves.

~ José P. Rizal

There's this mental illness, right? It's called 'anhedonia.' It means 'without pleasure.' You can look it up, though all you really need to do is look around. She motioned to the door the other women had disappeared through, and to the world at large. A good deal of people, mostly women, spend their entire lives in this state. It's a sort of half-death. But if you recognize this, you can fix it...You focus on bliss. Small pleasures. Fill your day with as many as you can fit into twenty-four hours. You devote every possible moment not to fulfilling another person-a man-but yourself.-SuzanneSounds hedonistic- JoannaBut once you can do this, you start attracting everyone to you. You dont need compare yourself to some other girl, no matter how young or firm or perky she is.....Trust me. A woman like this, one at her best? We're the color of the world. We're the light and the beauty. So focus on your pleasure, and the man you want can't help but realize...that he may be a prince...but your a goddess.-Suzanne

~ Vicki Pettersson

Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species.

~ Doug Dillon

Optimists move through life with a happy exterior. What happens on the inside shows up on the outside.

~ Marilyn Suttle

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.

~ Anonymous

Marijuana enhances our mind in a way that enables us to take a different perspective from 'high up', to see and evaluate our own lives and the lives of others in a privileged way. Maybe this euphoric and elevating feeling of the ability to step outsidethe box and to look at life’s patterns from this high perspective is the inspiration behind the slang term “high” itself.

~ Sebastian Marincolo

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

~ David Richo

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

~ Plato

An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

When you give appreciation IN ORDER TO get something– it's manipulation and people can sense it. Appreciate genuinely.

~ Marilyn Suttle

Perfection is not a destination it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!

~ Jim Bouchard

At dawn of man, many words of inspiration.At the end, there will be words of revelation.

~ Toba Beta

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

~ Liza M. Wiemer

Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

~ Allan Lokos

Every mother has to take care of her family.

~ Kelly Long

Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called earth mothers.—when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination.

~ Vera Nazarian

No matter how much you know, your destiny depends on the Wisdom, Knowledge and Understanding you display.

~ James C. Uwandu

It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

~ Barack Obama

The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.

~ Paul Éluard

Falling in love with humans is like walking into a pantry and realizing you're trapped in it without Whip Cream, and Cherries.

~ Aainaa-Ridtz

The greatest risk to man is not that he aims too high and misses, but that he aims too low and hits.

~ Michaelangelo

Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.

~ Shannon L. Alder

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

~ William Blake

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted.

~ Doug Dillon

Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Patience is a virtue not a vice.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

Life's not the breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

~ George Strait

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

~ Edward Burns

For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery—that most unstable existential moment—the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real.

~ Richard Rhodes

The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.

~ Rob Liano

Pain doesn't last. And when it's gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.

~ Kamal Ravikant

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.

~ Scott Hayden

Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

I didn't know I had it in me. There's more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We're capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.

~ Queen Latifah

The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.

~ David Richo

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience,--never doubts or complains,--but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully, that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him. He helped and comforted me, and showed me that I must try to practise all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example. It was easier for your sakes than for my own; a startled or surprised look from one of you, when I spoke sharply, rebuked me more than any words could have done; and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.

~ Susan Jane Gilman

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue.

~ Franz Kafka

If I never got to make a living doing what I loved, I'd still do it--for fun and for free.

~ Susan E. Isaacs