Inspirational Quotes

They always act this way: push those who are falling.

~ Igor Eliseev

Hope, tell me how could it be possible that grief and happiness are scattered all over the world so unevenly? Why do some people get all the troubles and misfortunes while the others are intoxicated with the abundance of material belongings, fat bellies and money? Why is there such injustice? Or, maybe, we are mistaken it’s unfair!?

~ Igor Eliseev

Is it so hard to offer your help and sympathy to somebody in grief? It takes a little to make one step, but, in an inexplicable manner, it stretches into thousands of kilometers. All of us are full of empathy and consolation but always prefer to express it from a distance.

~ Igor Eliseev

People! Please. Listen. Our life, our bodies are the most authentic clinical record ever! Why do you have to ask for any other one, alien, fake, distorted by illegible handwriting belonging to someone who has never been us and has never tried to understand us? Do you think that is right?

~ Igor Eliseev

Maybe the consequences of someone’s unreason can be remedied only with a new unreason?

~ Igor Eliseev

It always turns out this way: at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too.

~ Igor Eliseev

I think everything’s beautiful that is done through human’s heart and soul, that makes one’s inner world visible, that gives a chance to look at oneself from outside – everything is beautiful, even us.

~ Igor Eliseev

We always humble ourselves before bastards - it has already become a tradition.

~ Igor Eliseev

Sometimes it feels like you and I are at the movie theater, sitting next to each other and watching the same movie. People say something, argue incessantly, even fight, but this is all somewhere far away, on the other side of the screen, and we are just passive onlookers unable to affect the course of events.

~ Igor Eliseev

My books don’t narrate about delusions that people with unusual or forbidding looks should be treated as if they are not human beings, that life finds its sense only in the midst of great sufferings and tribulations, that is difficult to smile to people who hate or despise you, that people’s desires are primitive and life is complicated, that writing a book is equal to lounging, that being a human is rather easy but seems to be quite superfluous to an average person. Perhaps my books are about worthwhile things that don’t seem to exist but is encountered every day.

~ Igor Eliseev

And now, it turns out that our mother’s name means benevolence and generosity to people as objects of love! This is both a unique and beautiful name, Charity. “It was one of life’s cruel ironies,” I thought, “that a midwife, or whoever filled in the documents, must have known our mom’s name. I suppose she had a lot of fun naming us Hope and Faith! Or, on the contrary, she sympathized.

~ Igor Eliseev

It is worthy of note that killing oneself and killing someone is not the same. For the former, one should lose one’s faith, for the latter, one should never have any.

~ Igor Eliseev

Oh, this tormenting concern that your neighbor’s life might be better than yours! And how great it feels when you realize that the truth is exactly the opposite; and we’re not so different after all. Nоthing brings true neighbors together like a little friendly competition.

~ Igor Eliseev

All our life we had been dreaming to get through every little hole into this beautiful and unfamiliar world where parents and children love each other not for something but in spite of everything, to plunge into this fairy world entirely, settle down and live there. So why didn’t I feel happy when it happened for real?

~ Igor Eliseev

I should be grateful to the knife that’s curing me for being so sharp.

~ Igor Eliseev

People have no limits either in love or in hatred. But is it their fault? They despise us because they are afraid, for we remind them that getting crippled or sick might happen to anyone; or, perhaps, the true reason of their hatred lies much deeper inside, stemming from the hidden ugliness of their own souls?

~ Igor Eliseev

Probably, sooner or later every person founds oneself to be needless.

~ Igor Eliseev

How perfectly evil spirit and beauty can combine in one person, harmonically supplementing each other.

~ Igor Eliseev

Would he as well neglect the perishing person, wouldn’t he help to get up, would he turn away? I think I know the answer is obvious. He was flying so high above each of us that after falling down he got below everybody else. To be precise, he was simply knocked down. And we, none of us, just did nothing. Thus, with everybody’s silent acquiescence, the best of us were eliminated in order to let others decay.

~ Igor Eliseev

What if initially they had named you Faith and me Hope, but afterwards they forgot who of us had which name and swapped them around by mistake? You always believe that everything is going to be all right, and your faith helps me.”“And you hope that it will be that way. We have this close bond between us,” and, after thinking a while, you added, “All people need hope, no one can live without it; and our hope is way stronger when it is warmed up by faith. So it isn’t really important who is Faith and who is Hope; the main thing is that we are connected together.

~ Igor Eliseev

What is the point of living if we are going to die anyway? What difference does it make if it’s going to happen now or later? All we have to do is to take a step and jump off; that will resolve all problems, answer all questions at a time. And what if we are already flying down? We have jumped off, – perhaps, right after the birth, – not even knowing about it! The ground is already near; we just have the last moment to live and finally realize we are already dead for a long time.

~ Igor Eliseev

You have always understood and accepted my most genuine, most intimate impulses and responded to them with surprising accuracy. I wish all people turned into such mirrors for each other.

~ Igor Eliseev

Hope, what if initially they had named you Faith and me Hope, but afterwards they forgot who of us had which name and swapped them around by mistake? You always believe that everything is going to be all right, and your faith helps me.”“And you hope that it will be that way. We have this close bond between us,” and, after thinking a while, you added, “All people need hope, no one can live without it; and our hope is way stronger when it is warmed up by faith. So it isn’t really important who is Faith and who is Hope; the main thing is that we are connected together.

~ Igor Eliseev

I clearly saw us from outside, like in a picture: we are not people, we are a road sign warning: “Stop and thank luck because such fate didn’t befall you as befell us, and only then keep going your way”.

~ Igor Eliseev

We all have faced fearful times. But it is better to live with faith than fear.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Is there anything to lose in life? No. The only lost in life is death.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As I walk I mediate on the word of God. It comforts me.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You never know what people have endured to get where they are.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dreams are born in our heads, but they’re forged and perfected in the fire of experience.

~ Carol Tice

The Genesis of life is experience.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Experience is the best school,Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there,Offering only one lesson called Life,That you could only finish once you're dead!

~ Nelson M. Lubao

What Walter thinks is that people are like rivers. We never stay in the same place but jest keep flowing along, learning new stuff and picking up new experiences and changing all the time. So today’s you isn’t the same as yesterday’s you and won’t be the same as tomorrow’s you. But Walter also thinks that there’s a real perfect you that you’re always trying to get to, and the better you are at living your life, the closer you come to it.

~ Rebecca Rupp

Stories, whether they're good or bad, are expressions of interactions within society. Some may be seen as 'boring', but in their own right, they are still stories to be explored. People throughout life have more exciting endeavours than others, and that can be the same for stories. It's just a matter of segregating comparisons between the senseless and the thoughtful. The norm and the unbiased. We are what we are. As are stories.

~ Corey Dale-Gardener

I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

~ Veronica Roth

Wisdom is the byproduct of lifelong experience and education.

~ Debasish Mridha

Happiness is not an experience, but the essence of experience.

~ Debasish Mridha

The triumph of hope over experience.

~ Jojo Moyes

Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the greatest version of yourself.

~ Steve Maraboli

Strive to follow your big dreams. If you fail, cherish the valuable experience gained during the process. There’s always a second time.

~ Yatin Patel

...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom

~ Radhanath Swami