Inspirational Quotes

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.

~ Amit Ray

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.

~ Thomas Henry Huxley

Nobody steals books but your friends.

~ Roger Zelazny

The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.

~ Ram Dass

Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!

~ Steve Maraboli

You can only be afraid of what you think you know.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

~ Henry David Thoreau

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

~ Wendelin Van Draanen

Make today worth remembering.

~ Zig Ziglar

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.

~ Ann Brashares

I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

~ John C. Maxwell

The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

I am so, so alive.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

~ Brigham Young

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

~ Michael J. Fox

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

~ Haruki Murakami

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own

~ Kerry E. Wagner

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

~ Toni Morrison

A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones

~ Nelson Mandela

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

~ J.k. Rowling

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

~ Steve Maraboli

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

~ William Faulkner

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry, when I was least expecting her.-Roger Sullivan

~ Morgan Matson

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

~ Maimonides

Skies are crying,I am watching,Catching teardrops in my hands.Only silence, as it's ending,Like we never had a chance.Do you have to make me feelLike there's nothing left of me?

~ Demi Lovato

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

To write is human, to edit is divine.

~ Stephen King

Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.

~ Wendy Mass

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

~ John Quincy Adams

I'm the living embodiment of 'it could be worse'.

~ Dan Howell

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

~ T.h. White

Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

~ Paulo Coelho

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

~ Ralph Ellison

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

~ Lady Gaga

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.

~ Richard Feynman