Inspirational Quotes

What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.

~ Cornelius Elmore Addison

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

~ Jean M. Auel

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Again and again I will suffer, again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

It is when things are at worst you will get the best.

~ Santosh Kalwar

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.

~ Sheri Dew

The truth is I didn’t need therapy, I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.

~ Robert M. Drake

The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.

~ Nicholas Sparks

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

~ Sophie Kinsella

Sad stories make good books

~ Khaled Hosseini

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

For the future, the motto is, No days unalert.

~ Robert Greene

I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.

~ R.j. Anderson

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

~ Paul Theroux

That's chess! snapped Ron. You've got to make some sacrifices!

~ J.k. Rowling

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

~ Coco Chanel

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

~ Oscar Wilde

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action....no matter what.  So you're afraid? Be afraid.  Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.

~ Susan Cain

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease—where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth – it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.

~ Umera Ahmed

Life is All About How you Handle Plan BPlan A is always my first choice.You know, the one whereEverything works out to beHappily ever-after.But more often than not,I find myself dealing withThe upside-down, inside-out version --Where nothing goes as it should.It's at this point that the realTest of my character comes in..Do I sink, or do I swim?Do I wallow in self pity and play the victim,Or simply shift gearsAnd make the best of the situation?The choice is all mine...Life is all about how you handle Plan B.

~ Suzy Toronto

I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you.

~ Robert M. Drake

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

~ Frederick Buechner

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

~ Anaïs Nin

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...

~ Evanescence

I believe that everything that you do bad comes back to you. So everything that I do that's bad, I'm going to suffer from it. But in my mind, I believe what I'm doing is right. So I feel like I'm going to heaven

~ Tupac Shakur

You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart.

~ Mitch Albom

Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy

~ Aidan Chambers

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Dive deep. Drown willingly

~ Ted Dekker

To save all we must risk all.

~ Friedrich Schiller

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.

~ Chris Heimerdinger

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation, I am alone.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,A beautiful day for a neighbor.Would you be mine?Could you be mine?...It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood,A neighborly day for a beauty.Would you be mine?Could you be mine?...I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you.I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.So, let's make the most of this beautiful day.Since we're together we might as well say:Would you be mine?Could you be mine?Won't you be my neighbor?Won't you please,Won't you please?Please won't you be my neighbor?

~ Fred Rogers

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

~ Arthur Golden