Inspirational Quotes

Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.” His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

~ Spencer W. Kimball

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game wouldn't bring them any closer, that they wouldn't scare the birds away. Somehow she knew that you didn't get many moments like this in your life: moments when you knew, without any doubt, that you were alive, when you felt the air in your lungs and the wet grass beneath your feet and the cotton on your skin; moments when you were completely in the present, when neither the past nor the future mattered. She tried to slow her breathing, hoping somehow to make this moment last forever.

~ Neil Gaiman

Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.

~ L.j. Smith

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

~ Leo Buscaglia

I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one.

~ Marjane Satrapi

Have to? Of course you have to! But only because of you, Harry, won't rest until Voldemort is finished! Think now, for once, if you have never heard of the prophecy! What would you do?

~ J.k. Rowling

Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

~ Lao Tzu

Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo. Macondo era entonces una aldea de 20 casas de barro y cañabrava construidas a la orilla de un río de aguas diáfanas que se precipitaban por un lecho de piedras pulidas, blancas y enormes como huevos prehistóricos. El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarlas había que señalarlas con el dedo.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

If you are her man, she will talk to you until there justaren’t any more words left to say, encourage you when you’reat rock bottom and think there just isn’t any way out, hold youin her arms when you’re sick, and laugh with you when you’reup. And if you’re her man and that woman loves you—I meanreally loves you?—she will shine you up when you’re dusty,encourage you when you’re down, defend you even when she’snot so sure you were right, and hang on your every word, evenwhen you’re not saying anything worth listening to.

~ Steve Harvey

The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.

~ Alex Sanchez

just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

~ Marilyn Monroe

I change the world, the world changes me.

~ Libba Bray

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

~ Tyler Kent White

She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.

~ Robert M. Drake

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

~ Julie Garwood

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

~ Tennessee Williams

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

~ John F. Kennedy

My sun sets to rise again.

~ Robert Browning

Love has no limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have tried, love is indefinable.

~ Steve Maraboli

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

If you feel far from God, guess who moved?

~ Robin Jones Gunn

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

~ Sylvia Plath

The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.

~ Casi Mclean

You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.

~ Osho

Don't count your owls before they are delivered.

~ J.k. Rowling

Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.Which is?Not even trying. Now he did look at me, straight on. Life's short, you know?

~ Sarah Dessen

If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Inspiration comes of working every day.

~ Charles Baudelaire

In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even a tiny spark to fan into a new flame that will warm the chilled heart and bring back to life everything that can send the blood rushing wildly through the body, fill the eyes with tears--everything that can delude you so well!

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A great tree develops over time and can tell stories not only those of happiness, but also those that contain pain from what it has seen over the years, and as a result is the wise ancient tree that it is today. As the seasons change, the tree naturally goes through changes as well: where the leaves turn yellow and orange in the fall, falling by the Winter, returning in the Spring, and with full set of new leafs by the Summer. Love is no different in that there will be times when we are fully naked in the Winter, and left to wonder about Spring when it seemed so easy to love, yet the wise tree knows that no winter will last forever no matter how cold it may be.

~ Forrest Curran

Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.

~ Bertrand Russell

Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy

~ Amit Ray

The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Beannacht / BlessingOn the day whenthe weight deadenson your shouldersand you stumble,may the clay danceto balance you.And when your eyesfreeze behindthe grey windowand the ghost of lossgets in to you,may a flock of colours,indigo, red, green,and azure bluecome to awaken in youa meadow of delight.When the canvas fraysin the currach of thoughtand a stain of oceanblackens beneath you,may there come across the watersa path of yellow moonlightto bring you safely home.May the nourishment of the earth be yours,may the clarity of light be yours,may the fluency of the ocean be yours,may the protection of the ancestors be yours.And so may a slowwind work these wordsof love around you,an invisible cloakto mind your life.

~ John O'donohue

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

~ Garth Stein

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn't change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

~ Melissa Marr

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.

~ George S. Patton Jr.

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

~ Virginia Woolf