Inspirational Quotes

A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.

~ Criss Jami

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

~ Gayle Forman

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

~ Ramana Maharshi

Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.

~ Virgil

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.

~ Jim Elliot

My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery.

~ Pittacus Lore

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.

~ Steve Maraboli

We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.

~ Terry Goodkind

Congratulations!Today is your day.You're off to Great Places!You're off and away!

~ Dr. Seuss

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

~ Robert Bloch

What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

~ Dom Hubert Van Zeller

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

~ William James

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

~ Anne Lamott

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.

~ Helen Keller

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

~ Christopher Moore

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

~ Robin S. Sharma

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

~ Albert Einstein

90% of the game is half mental.

~ Yogi Berra

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

~ Neil Gaiman

God helps those who strut their stuff.

~ Dan Sofer

These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.

~ Yann Martel

I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.

~ Mitch Albom

The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.

~ Leo Rosten

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

~ Albert Einstein

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

~ Patañjali

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.

~ Kevin Durant

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

~ Stephen Fry

Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

~ Lemony Snicket

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

~ Harper Lee

Death comes to us all, we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

~ Robert Jordan

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

~ Jane Austen

In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

~ Maya Angelou

The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.

~ Robert M. Drake

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro