Inspirational Quotes

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

~ Sigmund Freud

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

~ Maya Angelou

Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?

~ Bernard M. Baruch

Am I weird?Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

~ Stephen King

If you can dream it, you can do it.

~ Walt Disney Company

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

~ Henrik Ibsen

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

~ Dolly Parton

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

~ Chris Colfer

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

~ Flannery O'connor

Words save our lives, sometimes.

~ Neil Gaiman

Happiness cannot be pursued, it must ensue.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.

~ J.k. Rowling

LAW 25Re-Create YourselfDo not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.

~ Robert Greene

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

~ Otto Rank

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

~ Marcus Aurelius

I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probablybecome as ordinary as they expect you to be.

~ Kelly Cutrone

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

~ William Arthur Ward

Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. We all know individuals who did not fulfill the promise they showed in childhood. Many of them became haunted by the image of what they might have become. Instead of blaming fate, I think we should accept ourselves as we are and try to fulfill whatever dreams are within our capability.Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make a difference, whether it is to probe the secrets of Nature, to clean up the environment and work for peace and social justice, or to nurture the inquisitive, vibrant spirit of the young by being a mentor and a guide.

~ Michio Kaku

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

~ Ansel Adams

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

~ James Gordon

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

~ Joseph Campbell

Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. And when we want to change our life, we dive into spiritual practice and expect quick results, only to lose focus after the honeymoon has worn off. We return to our state of bewilderment. We're left feeling helpless and discouraged. It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our minds?

~ Sakyong Mipham

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.

~ C.s. Lewis

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have togive up all the other important things.

~ Paulo Coelho

It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.

~ Michelle Hodkin

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

~ Napoleon Hill

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

~ L.m. Montgomery

When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.

~ Barney Stinson

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.

~ Maya Angelou

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage

~ Paulo Coelho

It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.

~ Dorothy Parker

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

~ Johann Sebastian Bach

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.

~ Mary Anne Radmacher

In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.

~ Abraham Lincoln

In the end, just three things matter:How well we have livedHow well we have lovedHow well we have learned to let go

~ Jack Kornfield

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

~ Richard Dawkins

Everything stinks till it’s finished.

~ Dr. Seuss

I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.

~ Shannon Hale

You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.

~ Michael Jordan