Inspirational Quotes

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

~ Marilyn Monroe

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

~ Oscar Wilde

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

~ Bil Keane

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

~ Neil Gaiman

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

~ Albert Einstein

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...

~ Dr. Seuss

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

~ George Eliot

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

~ Maya Angelou

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

~ C.s. Lewis

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

~ J.k. Rowling

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

~ Shel Silverstein

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

~ Stephen Chbosky

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

~ John Lennon

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

~ Paulo Coelho

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

~ Marianne Williamson

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

~ Lewis Carroll

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

~ Maya Angelou

A person's a person, no matter how small.

~ Dr. Seuss

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

~ Paulo Coelho

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

~ Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

~ Herbert Bayard Swope

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Peace begins with a smile..

~ Mother Teresa

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

~ John Green

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone....We leave you a tradition with a future.The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.Never throw out anybody.Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.

~ Sam Levenson

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

~ Nicholas Klein

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

~ Thomas Szasz

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

~ C.s. Lewis

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

~ Robert Fulghum

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

~ A.a. Milne

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

~ L.m. Montgomery

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.

~ C. Joybell C.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.

~ Emily Dickinson

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

~ George Orwell

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

~ Alexandre Dumas

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.