Inspirational Quotes

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

~ Lilith Saintcrow

‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.

~ Chico Xavier

What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

~ J.k. Rowling

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

~ J.k. Rowling

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

~ John A. Shedd

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

~ Stephen Hawking

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

~ Sarah Dessen

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

~ Bette Midler

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

~ J.k. Rowling

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

~ Charles M. Schulz

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

~ Paulo Coelho

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

~ P.c. Cast

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

~ Margaret Walker

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

~ George Carlin

Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

~ Paulo Coelho

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

~ Dr. Seuss

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.

~ Neil Gaiman

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.

~ C. Joybell C.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

~ Rick Riordan

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

~ Sarah Dessen

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

~ Mark Twain

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

~ Zig Ziglar

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

~ Barack Obama

In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?

~ Jack Kornfield

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

~ Mark Twain

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

~ Peter S. Beagle

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

~ Randy Pausch

Tears are words that need to be written.

~ Paulo Coelho

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

~ Molière

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón