Inspirational Quotes

You know what I love? The spaces between I love you. The tap of your fork against the plate and how my cup of wine clicks against our table. The scratchy voice coming from the radio in the other room. The quiet sound of your hand reaching across the table and whispering over mine. How your voice sounds like your mouth on the back of my neck. The soft murmur of our easy conversation.Between these quiet Tuesday night routines, following every comma and right after every pause for breath, is I, love, and you. In the middle of every I love you is a sink full of dishes, whisper of socked feet tangled in white sheets, and gentle kisses against curved cheeks. We lyric ourselves into the laundry that needs to be finished, into the ends of every smile that follows me repeating your name. We write ourselves into the grocery bags we need to carry, the cracks running up our rented walls, the sides of the bed we choose to drag up the sails of heavy eyed dreams.Like the spaces between our fingers, in the spaces between I, love, and you, we wait.The in-betweens have always been my favorite.

~ Marlen Komar

I am who I am because the tears of my past have watered the magnificence of my present.

~ Steve Maraboli

...look with-in (Jesus)

~ Robert Baohm

The truth will set you free (The Bible)

~ Robert Baohm

Whatever one does, someone is always happy...then again, someone else is not pleased

~ Arleabelle

Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion, you don't control it. Stop allowing today's possibilities to be robbed by tomorrow's insecurities.

~ Steve Maraboli

Blame is the creed of the disempowered.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life is a journey worth making.

~ Pandora Gray

As Tim followed me up the narrow stairwell, he playfully pinched my butt with every step, a pleasant (and painful--in a black-and-blue sort of way) reminder that all I had yearned for as a student twenty-five years before had come true, even if I hadn't taken the time to notice it until now: I was happy. At twenty years old, had I articulated what I thought I needed in life, I would have probably said a big house, a successful husband, and a great career. Yet all I really needed for true happiness was the homeless, unemployed bus driver right behind me, pinching my butt every step of the way.

~ Doreen Orion

-Do you think artists are supposed to be happy? -Everyone is supposed to be. -I said staunchly,and I knew that I was indeed an idiot and that was my destiny and I didn't mind it

~ Elizabeth Kostova

Develop habits of self-love that allow you to feel happy and cared for. You deserve happiness and your actions every day should be giving you that. Make time for yourself to enjoy life.

~ Avina Celeste

There are no quick fixes in your life. If you want to live a happier life you have to make your actions happier every day. You need to be determined to make your life better if you want it to be so.

~ Avina Celeste

As you act with more control, compassion, and love, the lives of those around you improve. When you let yourself find happiness, your friends, family, and acquaintances will begin to find their happiness too.

~ Avina Celeste

As long as you have food, water, and shelter, all that matters is what goes on inside your mind. A happy mind makes for a happy life. Find the little pleasant moments that happen in your day and summon all the happiness you can from each and every one. There may be bad days but if you can find a tiny speck of happiness then it is not all for nothing. Live in the moment. Let go of the bad in your past and enjoy every happy moment to the fullest extent.

~ Avina Celeste

Why are we miserable, when there is music?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You demand excellence and excellence demands your every move better

~ Myra Yadav

The heart knows what it feels.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Can a man's life be complete without his Maker?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A man desire two things: love and happiness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life should be simple and easy. If you're doing it hard, you're doing it wrong.

~ Conrad Aquino

Doing the next right thing will always bring more genuine happiness than simply doing the next fun thing.

~ John Bruna

No, you pessimistic fool, I am saying that if we can find it in ourselves to be miserable even when things are actually pretty good then there should be no difficulty being happy even when there is gloom and doom all around us.

~ Anuja Chandramouli

A simple act of kindness is happiness gained.

~ Julia Kushemererwa

The difference between your friend and your best friend is that your friend asks, ‘Are you are ok?’ and your best friend asks, ‘Do you want to talk about it?

~ Savania China

Don't pay attention to people Who tell you can't do it at lenght. Trusting your own instincts Can lead to what's quintessential. Make their limitation be your strenght. You might as well contradict them And then reach your full potential.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

It is true - I am creating the life that I want.

~ Catherine Marie Bergman

Hope makes a merry heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I is a dreamblowing giant,” the BFG said. “(...) I is scuddling away to other places to blow dreams into the bedrooms of sleeping children. Nice dreams. Lovely golden dreams. Dreams that is giving the dreamers a happy time.

~ Roald Dahl

Sometimes it's not always straightforward, but it's not always confusing either. You just have to respect a person's decisions without disrespecting them.

~ Temitayo Olami

You don’t even have to love your job, you can merely love what your job does for you - the confidence and self-fulfillment that come with doing and earning.

~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Follow your heart, be happy forever.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is exercising the little freedom that we have by choosing things that create harmony in our lives.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Don’t ever lose your smile. Don’t ever let anything take away the joy from your laugh. You never know when the taste of laughter on the tongue or the scent of happiness in the air might save one’s life.

~ Emory R. Frie

Living life without a goal is like sailing the sea without a compass.

~ Auliq Ice

Grow your courage by remembering each day is a gift.

~ Auliq Ice

She felt wild and unruly, determined and free.

~ Scott Stabile

To have hope is to be happy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We weren’t happy together but we lived in a state of easy, mild contentment. We shared everything except the stupid fucking secret hanging round your neck. I imagined tiny photographs: portraits in sepia of your parents, their faces partially obscured by goitres. Meanwhile, maybe not tomorrow, maybe not next year, maybe not even in a decade from now but one day: the planet would fall apart.

~ Jon Gresham

I had left my anger somewhere long ago. Put it down on a park bench and walked away. And yet. It had been so long, I didn't know any other way of being. One day I woke up and said to myself: It's not too late. The first days were strange. I had to practice smiling in front of the mirror. But it came back to me. It was as if a weight had been lifted. I let go, and something let go of me.

~ Nicole Krauss

There's no greater joy than being able to touch People's hearts.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes