Inspirational Quotes

Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams

~ R.j. Palacio

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

~ Frederick Buechner

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

~ China Miéville

The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

~ Sarah Dessen

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.

~ Miguel Ruiz

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

~ Ian Wallace

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

~ Eckhart Tolle

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

~ John C. Maxwell

The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them. I meet far too many people who are going to be writers 'someday.' When they are out of high school, when they've finished college, after the wedding, when the kids are older, after I retire . . . That is such a trap You will never have any more free time than you do right now. So, whether you are 12 or 70, you should sit down today and start being a writer if that is what you want to do. You might have to write on a notebook while your kids are playing on the swings or write in your car on your coffee break. That's okay. I think we've all 'been there, done that.' It all starts with the writing.

~ Robin Hobb

I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Collective madness is called sanity ..

~ Paulo Coelho

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

~ Taylor Swift

I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.

~ Wally Lamb

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

~ Cesare Pavese

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.

~ Tennessee Williams

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

~ Jeanne D'arc

To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.

~ Thomas Merton

Do not dare not to dare.

~ C.s. Lewis

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

~ Bruce Lee

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

~ Joseph Conrad

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

~ Alan Moore

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.

~ Stephen Hawking

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

~ Maya Angelou

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up.As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean.He came closer still and called out Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?The young man paused, looked up, and replied Throwing starfish into the ocean.I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean? asked the somewhat startled wise man.To this, the young man replied, The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die.Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, It made a difference for that one.

~ Loren Eiseley

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

~ Isabel Allende

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

~ Philip Pullman

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return

~ Anonymous

Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

~ Stephen King

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

~ Lucille Ball

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

~ Fred Rogers

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

~ G.k. Chesterton

She made broken look beautifuland strong look invincible.She walked with the Universeon her shoulders and made itlook like a pair of wings.

~ Ariana Dancu

For Equilibrium, a Blessing:Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.As the wind loves to call things to dance,May your gravity by lightened by grace.Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.As water takes whatever shape it is in,So free may you be about who you become.As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,May your sense of irony bring perspective.As time remains free of all that it frames,May your mind stay clear of all it names.May your prayer of listening deepen enoughto hear in the depths the laughter of god.

~ John O'donohue

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

~ Andy Warhol

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

~ Sam Harris