Inspirational Quotes

Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up.

~ Lacey Sturm

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.

~ Kaiden Blake

What would you think if I told you that, yes, your bad choices and decisions have had a part in your ending up under this pier, but beyond that, under this pier is exactly where you should be in order for a future to occur that you can’t even imagine at this point?

~ Andy Andrews

If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

~ Joanne Harris

Your words and deeds are seeds, scattered in the wind... the seeds are light or darkness... they'll break apart or mend... Sow light instead of gloom. Sow faith instead of doubt. Sow truth and love, and hope, and peace. Sow light and darkness rout.

~ Colleen Luntzel

Throughout their lifetime, most women learn to be uncomfortable with their physical appearance. They create amask of makeup that is intended to “fix” their “imperfections.” They identify so much with this mask they reject their true beauty.Feminine Transitions encourages women to remove their masks and love their true selves, completely.

~ Alyscia Cunningham

There can be moments, when the rope we hold to, becomes a strand of thread, where we feel that we are barely hanging on but when the thread feels as though it's about to break; just know that God will never let us fall but rather, He will be there to catch us and when He does, He will carry us away, on wings of love, to a higher plateau, where evil cannot touch us.

~ Diane K. Chamberlain

Anticipating God's blessings is a great way to begin a new week! When we look for the things that could go wrong, we just may find what we had been looking for.

~ Diane K. Chamberlain

You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.

~ Lacey Sturm

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.

~ Neil Gaiman

It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.

~ Wiley Cash

It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings…Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late…to believe in them after the fact.

~ Natsuki Takaya

Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.

~ Deborah L. Parker

Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

If it doesn't challenge you, it will not change you.

~ Tamika L. Sims

But remember, there's no greater gift than the present.

~ Dan Santat

We cannot force the development of mindfulness.

~ Allan Lokos

There is a rhythm throughout the universe. The pulsation throbs within every heart, during each moment of ecstasy, in every birth contraction. The rhythm exists in the pull of the ocean tide, around the weight of each raindrop, woven into every cocoon.The sequence, the progression, is what we call time. Our time of influence affects the expansion of the universe. Heaven is eager to learn how we will add to the growth of eternal existence. God is ready to respond as you take part in creation. The rhythm never ends, it only strengthens and expands.This life force is you. You are the mystery.You are the journey. You are exquisite.You are here.Now, it’s your time.

~ Julie A. Barnes

Mindfulness is a quiet mind, an aware mind. Mindfulness itself is not about ‘arriving,’ but about being.

~ Jean Moreau

A full-throttled deployment of the practices of strategic communication would kill candor and leave truth bereft to fend for herself in the backstabbing night of political bogeys.

~ Nick Bostrom

Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world’s excuses.

~ Walter Mosley

We should live every day like people who have just been rescued from the moon.

~ No Death

Judgement is poverty.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy ending on the last page, right? If the princess had everything from the beginning, there wouldn't be a story. Anyone who is imperfect or incomplete can become the main character in the story.

~ Peach-Pit

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can.

~ Eben Alexander

This was the first piece to the whole story—the beginning.

~ Sarah Todd Hammer

Though the heart may be cracked wide, pain can still seep in.

~ Rachelle Rea Cobb

Every good love story has a start and a finish. What matters is what happens in the middle.

~ Suzette R. Hinton

If you are reading this, you are still alive, and, therefore, the story is not over. Something else could happen.

~ Alicia Bay Laurel

That story you're scared to share --- that story has the power to change both your life and the lives of others.

~ Jo Ann Fore

It is your personal story that makes you relatable. Not assigning judgment, or pressing blame. Your story, wrapped in God, around his Word, and what he has done in your life will safely lead women home.

~ Jo Ann Fore

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.

~ Charley Pride

We are the nation of human progress, and who will, what can, set limits to our onward march?

~ John L. O'sullivan

I was going to make him proud of the man I would become. I was finally going to chart my own course, rattle the stars, and then… Then I would deserve it.”“Deserve what?”“The way he used to look at me, like I was a hero, or something close to one.

~ Emory R. Frie

Self importance is pride of a soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Turn your pride into love in order to fill your life with joy.

~ Debasish Mridha

Its like people care more abput their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

~ Terry Pratchett

It's like people care more about their pride than about what's correct, about the truth.

~ Terry Pratchett

His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?' 'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.' 'You're letting me demean you!' She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips