Inspirational Quotes

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.

~ Jodi Picoult

You kick ass Sam. And don't forget it

~ Pittacus Lore

There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.

~ L.j. Smith

Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.

~ Amit Ray

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.

~ Amit Ray

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

~ Mae West

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

~ Dorothy Day

Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop

~ Gabrielle Zevin

What I stand for is what I stand on.

~ Wendell Berry

If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.

~ Walter Isaacson

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

~ Marcus Aurelius

It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.

~ Stormie Omartian

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens, it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

~ Victor Hugo

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Faith don't come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He's so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.

~ Lynn Austin

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

~ Charles Dickens

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

~ Michelle Obama

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records

~ Shiv Khera

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

~ Neil Gaiman

I would court you, with all the grace and courtesy that you deserve

~ C.s. Pacat

Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

~ Amit Ray

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright

But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.

~ Jim Butcher

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

~ C.s. Lewis

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

~ Anthony Robbins

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

~ Margaret Mead

And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

~ Jodi Picoult

Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity.

~ Thomas Merton

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Either you run the day or the day runs you..

~ Jim Rohn

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

~ Neil Armstrong

Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

~ Paulo Coelho

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

~ Benito Mussolini

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

~ Anne Lamott

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

~ Mother Teresa

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

~ W.h. Auden

I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!

~ Anne Frank