Inspirational Life Quotes

Good stuff doesn't just happen. You have to fight for it.

~ D.j. Machale

When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and the joy of living, If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies with yourself.

~ Tecumseh

Some people believe in Fate, others don't. I do, and I don't.It may seem at times as if invisible fingers move us above like puppets on strings. But for sure, we are notborn to be dragged along. We can grab the strings ourselves and adjust our course at every crossroad, or take off at any little trail into the unknown.

~ Thor Heyerdahl

If you want to catch your dreams, you have to drop your fears.

~ Anton Rubaclini

There are no truths, only stories.

~ Elissa Sussman

I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And, most surprisingly of all, that I could carry it. That I could bear the unbearable. These realizations about my physical, material life couldn't help but spill over into the emotional and spiritual realm. That my complicated life could be made so simple was astounding. It had begun to occur to me that perhaps it was okay that I hadn't spent my days on the trail pondering the sorrows of my life, that perhaps by being forced to focus on my physical sufferings some of my emotional suffering would fade away. (93)

~ Cheryl Strayed

It was William who would climb out of his carriage unafraid and help a farmer drive a herd of cattle or sheep across a road when necessary.

~ Lisa M. Prysock

Her legacy was not--would not be--this disease. Phyllis Marie Unold Avery told us stories...It is my promise to her that for as long as I am able, I will recognize, restory, and remember.

~ Nancy A. Dafoe

It’s like saying you’re fixed in the past, and you’re running out of time. Every moment is only the beginning of something new

~ Priscille Sibley

If you like or dislike something about them, Say it to their face.

~ Yasinthan

Things don’t happen for a reason, things give you reasons to make things happen.

~ Jon R.

Play a bigger part in doing more good in the world, it is good for you and for business.

~ Wesam Fawzi

How can you ever know up, if you have never experienced down in your life.-Denis J

~ Denis John George

We are inspired by divine power to write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The thing about hiking the Pacific Coast Trial, the thing that was so profound to me that summer -- and yet also, like many things, so very simple -- was how few choices I had and how often I had to do the thing I least wanted to do. How there was no escape or denial. (69)

~ Cheryl Strayed

Individuals who are focused on becoming better are individuals not easily offended. You can only offend those who are not on a path of constant growth and enlightenment.

~ C. Joybell C.

She hadn’t been Rachel that night. She was evidence, a body of things to be picked and probed at, pictured and asked about, recorded and quoted. I want my life back. The voice was faint inside her own mind. She could hear the plaintive, almost despairing note to that voice. Like the wail of a scared child, this wasn’t just about facing her fears. This was about everything. Her injuries, the loss of the life and world she’d once taken for granted, her long recovery.

~ Anais Torres

If you want things to change, then you have to change them.

~ Tracie Puckett

Don't let reading make you arrogant. It can happen-believe me. Maybe you've even met a person or two like this, someone who thinks that being an English literature major or particularly well read puts them above the crowd. Take my advice:even if it's true, don't go there....I urge you to read, knowing the words you absorb will come out in your life in ways that inspire, uplift and encourage someone else. Life is meant to be passed on. Read with a servant's heart.

~ Pat Williams

When we learn to accept, appreciate and love others for being different is when we will find peace, joy and happiness.

~ Daryl L.cobabe.

May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.

~ Leta B.

No one has the ability to define who you are unless you give permission.

~ Leta B.

Contrary to popular belief, there are peaks higher than Mount Everest. These are the hurdles that lie within each of us. Thank you Stephen Hawking for showing us that they are not insurmountable

~ Karan Godara

If I were a pattern, I would be the pattern of paint that a bird would make if you dipped a bird’s wings in watercolour and then set the bird loose inside a paper lantern. I’m pretty sure that’s it!

~ C. Joybell C.

There are endearing people who come into our lives and leave a soul print.

~ Leta B.

She’s beautiful to look at, she’s new, she’s clean, and perfectly cut. But then you get up and look closely and see that she’s not real. She’s a fake. She doesn't glimmer like a natural diamond or hold the beauty and unbreakable strength of a real diamond. She’s just a manufactured piece of glass. Not the real deal. And sooner or later, that pig headed owner is gonna realize that fake diamonds can never pass for the real ones, no matter how much you wish they would.

~ Bink Cummings

When you walk in distinction, even the photocopying machine can’t replicate your unique quality.

~ Onyi Anyado

Life is not about chances, thinkings or probabilities, life is about atitudes

~ Rodrigo Mortara Almeida

Many people hide inside of their “not-knowing” and, afraid of taking the risk, settle for mediocrity in their life. They imitate the same safe, easy life that other people walk. They mistake that for happiness and, inside of it, look for security. However, the moment that the defensive shields we’ve built up come down, all truths reveal themselves and speak to us. When we hear our inner voice and follow it, we can walk our own path.

~ Ilchi Lee

i have learnt to live to please myself first instead of other people, when I lived to please others, I lay late in bed with my eyes open in the dark wondering who I was, now I know myself

~ Stan The Man Sa

If you're too busy looking back at the past, you won't be able to see and enjoy the future!

~ Dawn M. Plass

If the sun refuses to rise we will make it rise

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Everyone is taught that angels have wings - the lucky ones of us find that they have 4 paws.

~ Jury Nel

What GOD has joined together, let no man put asunder. Your consummation is an eternal binding. It is a glorious mystery not realized by many, and abused by most. ~SCRIBER~

~ Lucian Bane

He had accessorized his life with everything but paternal instinct.

~ Noorilhuda

Nothing is quite as beautiful as seeing someone do exactly what they were designed to do, to watch someone who has found that thing, that passion, that singular calling and expresses it with conviction.

~ Lori Stanley Roeleveld

The moment we notice our thoughts is one of the most transformative experiences we can have.

~ Teresa Decicco

You create the action, the chances, the opportunities, the wealth, the happiness, the success, the rhythm, the speed, you control all the outcomes in your life!

~ Stan The Man Sa

Get your GAME ON some how.

~ G-Mam

Everyone has adventures in their lives. Some good ones, some bad ones.

~ Sarah Todd Hammer