Inspirational Quotes

No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.

~ Jessica Spotswood

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

~ Anne Frank

As you walk through forestsor the meadows of your mind,Stop and talk to those you fearGood friendships you may find

~ Stephen Cosgrove

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…

~ Paul Arden

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

~ Charles M. Schulz

I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

~ Margaret Mitchell

The truth was this: Love is a decision.

~ Karen Kingsbury

Revenge is not sweet, it is gloomy and a waste of time.

~ Anna Bayes

In order to know who you are you need to know God is.

~ Annette Hoggs-Jackson

I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements can make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes the only response to pain.Perhaps most important, I learned that everyone has a story – of dreams and nightmares, hope and heartache, love and loss, courage and fear, sacrifice and selfishness. All my life I’ve been interested in other people’s stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them. When I grew up into politics, I always felt the main point of my work was to people a chance to have better stories. - Page 15, Paragraph 5, ‘My Life’ by Bill Clinton. –Hard cover version-

~ Bill Clinton

There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.

~ Mark Twain

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

You are doing God's work. You are doing it wonderfully well. He is blessing you, and He will bless you, --even--no, -especially--when your days and your nights may be most challenging. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and weep over their responsibility as mothers, `Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.' And it will make your children whole as well.

~ Jeffrey R. Holland

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be?

~ Mitch Albom

You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.

~ Winston S. Churchill

just remember: i love you, and love yourselves. 'cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby.

~ Lady Gaga

You are stronger than you know.

~ Lori Osterman

Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

There are few sources of energy so powerful as a procrastinating college student.

~ Paul Graham

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

~ Thucydides

Forget about self-image and self-judgment. It's about self-love, and no one teaches you that at school. No one teaches you that if you accept and love yourself, nothing and no one can touch you. This is the only face and body you're ever going to get, so be comfortable and happy in it. Own it. Own every aspect of who you are and present it to the world with the utmost pride.

~ Connor Franta

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

~ Jane Austen

The warrior is Here, Now.

~ Dan Millman

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

~ Staness Jonekos

As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

~ Stephen Fry

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

~ Joseph Smith Jr.

‎What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen? No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave.

~ C. Joybell C.

We often think of peace as the absence of war, that if powerful countries would reduce their weapon arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we see our own minds- our own prejudices, fears and ignorance. Even if we transport all the bombs to the moon, the roots of war and the roots of bombs are still there, in our hearts and minds, and sooner or later we will make new bombs. To work for peace is to uproot war from ourselves and from the hearts of men and women. To prepare for war, to give millions of men and women the opportunity to practice killing day and night in their hearts, is to plant millions of seeds of violence, anger, frustration, and fear that will be passed on for generations to come.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

~ John F. Kennedy

Dear Human:You've got it all wrong.You didn't come here to master unconditional love. This is where you came from and where you'll return.You came here to learn personal love.Universal love.Messy love.Sweaty Love.Crazy love.Broken love.Whole love.Infused with divinity.Lived through the grace of stumbling.Demonstrated through the beauty of... messing up.Often.You didn't come here to be perfect, you already are.You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous.And rising again into remembering.But unconditional love? Stop telling that story.Love in truth doesn't need any adjectives.It doesn't require modifiers.It doesn't require the condition of perfection.It only asks you to show up.And do your best.That you stay present and feel fully.That you shine and fly and laugh and cry and hurt and heal and fall and get back up and play and work and live and die as YOU.Its enough.It's Plenty.

~ Courtney A. Walsh

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

~ Pearl S. Buck

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

~ Joseph Campbell

When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.

~ Walter Payton

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big

~ Lisa Genova

Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.

~ Lesley M.m. Blume

He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.

~ Jean-Luc Godard

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.

~ Thomas Paine