Inspirational Quotes

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

~ Neil Gaiman

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free!

~ Dan Millman

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

~ Joseph Campbell

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.

~ Hermann Hesse

Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.

~ Susan Ee

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

~ Chris Colfer

And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

~ Stephen Chbosky

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.

~ J.k. Rowling

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

~ John Milton

I am who I am; no more, no less.

~ Terry Goodkind

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

~ Eudora Welty

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

~ James Dean

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

~ James R. Sherman

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

~ John Connolly

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

~ Emily Dickinson

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

~ John Boyle O'reilly

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.

~ Steve Maraboli

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place

~ Iain Thomas

No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

~ Pittacus Lore

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

~ Judith Mcnaught

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

~ Albert Einstein

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

~ Richard Bach

Written words can also sing.

~ Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

~ Chuck Palahniuk

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

~ Joyce Meyer

You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?

~ David Nicholls

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

We don't receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

~ Marcel Proust

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

~ Ben Carson