Inspirational Quotes

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

~ Melina Marchetta

Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

~ Yehuda Bauer

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.

~ Robert M. Drake

Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.

~ Robert M. Drake

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

~ Richard Bach

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

~ Sophocles

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

~ Paulo Coelho

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

~ Zoë Marriott

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you, the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.

~ Dan Millman

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

~ Ben Carson

The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.

~ Sarah Dessen

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

~ Richard Dawkins

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

~ Haruki Murakami

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

~ C.s. Lewis

In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, It's better to burn out than to fade away. He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, he said. I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.

~ David Sheff

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.

~ Sanaya Roman

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

~ Wendelin Van Draanen

Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.

~ Cassandra Clare

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

~ Jack Kerouac

Tearing down the rest of the world won't make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only things that can.

~ A.g. Howard

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

~ William Arthur Ward

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

~ John C. Maxwell

LAW 38Think As You Like But Behave Like OthersIf you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.

~ Robert Greene

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

~ Philip Pullman

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

~ Carl Sagan

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)

~ Lisa Kleypas

Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.

~ Mitch Albom

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

There is no such thing as a child who hates to read, there are only children who have not found the right book.

~ Frank Serafini

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

~ John Stuart Mill

Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…

~ Walt Whitman

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

~ Amit Ray

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

~ Harry Truman

I wrote the song 'Down to Earth' a few years ago, and i was really excited to record it for My World album. It's a huge fan favourite. So many people feel where i'm coming from. It doesn't need any spectacular stage effects in the touring show; the best thing i can do is just sing it straight from my heart. I'm not afraid to show my emotions; if you love someone, you should tell them. If you think a girl is beautiful, you should say that. Usher says some songs work best when there's a sob in the singer's voice. You gotta let that deep feeling come through. And that's how i felt about this song. Sometimes the emotion of it is enough to bring tears to my eyes.

~ Justin Bieber