Inspirational Quotes

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

~ T.s. Eliot

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

~ Agatha Christie

If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

~ Anne Frank

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

~ Philip Pullman

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Vote for the man who promises least, he'll be the least disappointing.

~ Bernard M. Baruch

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

~ Alan Turing

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.

~ Cheryl Lacey Donovan

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.

~ Veronica Roth

She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.

~ Robert M. Drake

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way. Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

~ Camille Paglia

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.

~ C.s. Lewis

So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.

~ Sabaa Tahir

The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.

~ Ally Carter

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

~ Will Smith

There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.

~ Lao Tzu

Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.

~ Meister Eckhart

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

~ Isabelle Eberhardt

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

~ Neil Gaiman

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.

~ Warren Ellis

The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.

~ Steven Moffat

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

~ Sarah Dessen

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

~ Emily Dickinson

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

~ Laini Taylor

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

~ Robert E. Lee

In the end, everything is a gag.

~ Charlie Chaplin

So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?

~ Yana Toboso

I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.

~ Amy Harmon

We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.

~ Alex Harris

Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

~ Kelly Cutrone

To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.

~ Garth Stein

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

~ Byron Katie

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

~ Taylor Swift

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

~ Yoko Ono

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

~ Stephen King

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

~ Lloyd Alexander