Inspirational Quotes

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.

~ C. Joybell C.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

~ Anonymous

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

~ Gloria Steinem

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

~ Confucius

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.

~ George Orwell

I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

~ J. Richard Lessor

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

~ Walter Scott

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

~ Jon Krakauer

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

~ Richard Bach

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

~ Gautama Buddha

Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of no real importance. She doesn't try to live up to anyone else's standards - only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently.

~ Sherry Argov

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.

~ Neil Gaiman

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

~ Louis C.k.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget, the naive forgive and forget, the wise forgive but do not forget.

~ Thomas Szasz

We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. He clears his throat. I continually struggle with kindness.

~ Veronica Roth

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

~ Tupac Shakur

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

~ Robert Frost

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

~ Lily Tomlin

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

~ Joseph Campbell

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

~ Bob Marley

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

~ Bruce Lee

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

~ Ayn Rand

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!

~ C. Joybell C.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

~ Mitch Albom

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail...

~ Sophie Kinsella

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

~ Jodi Picoult

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

~ Bill Watterson

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

~ Robert M. Pirsig

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

~ Paulo Coelho

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

~ Samuel Beckett

When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.

~ C. Joybell C.

Bermimpilah, karena Tuhan akan memeluk mimpi-mimpi itu.

~ Andrea Hirata

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You become what you think about all day long.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

~ G.k. Chesterton