Inspirational Quotes

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

~ Robert Frost

You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking.

~ Lucille Clifton

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

~ Maya Angelou

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

~ Sarah Vowell

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

~ George Carlin

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

~ Victor Hugo

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

~ Lauren Oliver

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:Wear sunscreen.If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

~ Mary Schmich

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

~ L.m. Montgomery

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

~ Bob Ross

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

~ Erin Morgenstern

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

~ Albert Einstein

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

~ Confucius

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

~ E.m. Forster

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

~ Cecelia Ahern

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

~ J.m. Barrie

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

~ C.s. Lewis

Life sucks, and then you die...

~ Stephenie Meyer

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

~ Victor Hugo

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

~ Helen Keller

He that can have patience can have what he will.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

~ Alan Moore

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

~ Anonymous

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

~ Anaïs Nin

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

~ Wayne W. Dyer

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

~ Anaïs Nin

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.

~ Mirza Tahir Ahmad

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

~ Aristotle

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Aim higher in case you fall short.

~ Suzanne Collins

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

~ J.k. Rowling

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson