Inspirational Quotes

...stories break silence and nourish those who work, feel, and dream.From Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion

~ Carmen Naranjo

Life stories with themes of ruin can trap us. Life stories that are triumphant can transform us.

~ Meg Jay

Not everyone loves to read, but everyone loves stories. Some stories are told with words, some with paint, and some with music. Some are filmed, others are set on a stage. Some are sculpted from clay or woven in thread, and some are even explored in video games. The best ones are from other people, because they are raw and unique. But however they come, stories are powerful because they create something out of nothing: courage out of fear, knowledge out of ignorance, and hope out of despair.

~ Trudy Adams

Pick any time of the day or night and somewhere, everywhere, stories are being told. They overlap and flow across one another, the pull away again just as waves do upon a shore. It is this knack that stories have of rubbing up against one another that makes the world an interesting place, a place of greater possibility than it would be if we told our tales alone.This is impossible, of course. Make no mistake, everyone's stories touches someone else's. And every brush of one life tale upon another, be it ever so gentle, creates something new: a pathway that wasn't there before. The possibility to create a new tale.

~ Cameron Dokey

Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone is a writer, some are written in the books and some are confined to hearts.

~ Savi Sharma

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

~ Zainab Salbi

I think that for humans, the most regrettable of omissions, along with unshed tears and unexamined lives, is untold stories, the things not shared, the lost opportunity to be honest about oneself and tender toward others.

~ Martha M. Moravec

We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.

~ Niall Williams

My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book, it was an automatic death penalty. She had gotten hold of a copy of ‘Gone With the Wind’, and she would take three or four hours out of her sleeping time each night to read. And then, during the hour or so when they were sewing the next day, she would tell them all the story. These girls were risking certain death for a story. And when she told me that story herself, it actually made what I do feel more important. Because giving people stories is not a luxury. It’s actually one of the things that you live and die for.

~ Neil Gaiman

Stories are how we think. They are how we make meaning of life. Call them schemas, scripts, mental maps, ideas, metaphors, or narratives. Stories are how we inspire and motivate human beings. Great stories help us to understand our place in the world, create our identity, discover our purpose, form our character and define and teach human values.

~ Jeroninio Almeida

Live your life in such a way that it is going to be the favorite story of your generation and generations to come.

~ Amit Kalantri

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

~ Donald Miller

A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.

~ Eoin Colfer

You may exist inthis world--but I exist tooand I will not yield

~ Matthew Quick

And suddenly, as if her head had cleared, she was quite sure that wonderful things did indeed exist. Even if they’re only in my own mind, she thought, they’re there and worth fighting for. I mustn’t give in.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

I wish there were strict laws to stop people from corrupting other people's mind with their negativity thus influencing them to form biased opinion of someone, some situation or overall way of living.

~ Arti Honrao

if someone always finds our mistakes then we must be happy to know that there, in the world, is at-least someone who is concentrating his mind and spending his time to make us flawless or perfect.

~ Sandy Raman

People can make it hard for you, they can discourage and take the heart out of you, but in the end the only person who can kill your dream is you. Don't ever give up.

~ Sarah Morgan

There were bad times before, and you are still here... Living, breathing, feeling the wind on your skin. Let everything go and feel it!

~ Adam Scythe

I'm alive now, but I don't know if I will be tomorrow. The state of being alive is not guaranteed, but should I let that stop me from living?

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

~ Roy Bennett

There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.

~ Roy Bennett

The sun will set and the sun will rise, and it will shine upon us tomorrow in our grief and our gratitude, and we will continue to live with purpose, memory, passion, and love.

~ Brent Schlender

The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Be optimistic like a flower. A flower never loses her optimism, and will bloom with all of her beauty despite tremendous adversity.

~ Debasish Mridha

When I am passing through hell, I have to remind myself of the last time I happened to be on that road. How quickly it was over, without any ingenuity on my part. After all, hell is a one-way street. The only direction forward is the way out.

~ R. N. Prasher

You are the author of your lives book. While there may be fixed chapters ahead, you choose how to fill the pages within each one.

~ Ricky Mathieson

The foot feels the foot when it's touched by the ground, like the heart feels the heart when it's no longer bound.

~ Ricky Mathieson

You are the prisoner, the prison and the prison keeper. Only you hold the key to your freedom.

~ Ricky Mathieson

Nothing's ever all bad if you think hard enough about it.

~ Matthew Crow

Why, it would be such fun,' he chuckled, 'to just forget all about the hours when the sun didn't shine, and remember only the nice, pleasant ones.

~ Eleanor H. Porter

Make sure that today is better than yesterday.

~ Tomás Mier

Horas non numero nisi serenas,' 'I count - no - hours but - unclouded ones

~ Eleanor H. Porter

All of the negativity and unsavory characters in this environment only serve to make the exceptions shine all the more brightly.

~ Damien Echols

.theres much more important things..

~ Kovo

Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.

~ Jim Butcher

Hope docks in my heart

~ Angelica Hopes

New Orleans, the storm, Perry, the river: they all reminded me not to take anything for granted. It all washes away, and we are all washed away with it. So when then ground is steady and the sky is clear, we should breathe deep until our lungs inflate against our ribs and hold in that one breath until we are lightheaded with the privilege of being human. The absolute privilege of being human.

~ Jacob Tomsky

Behold, we know not anything;I can but trust that good shall fallAt last -- far off -- at last, to all,And every winter change to spring.

~ Alfred Tennyson

I can help you.” He finalised.“How?” Both Jezka and Faze asked.“I don’t know but it's nice to sound optimistic, wouldn’t you agree.

~ Keisha Keenleyside