Inspirational Quotes

We're distracted and we let the door slam on the person behind us, we trip over curbs as we're texting, we're...sedentary, weighed down, collapsed over the laptop. ...We've forgotten how to move through life with grace.

~ Sarah L. Kaufman

It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing

~ Temple Emmet Williams

The Americans were understandably on hair triggers. There was a good reason for all of this security. For despite TV images of quick victory, much of Baghdad certainly had not fallen and firefights with die-hard Ba’athists loyal to Saddam Hussein were raging all over the city.

~ Lawrence Anthony

Choose this life. Choose this body. Say yes to all of it. Say yes to the beauty and the good and the ugly and the difficult. Choose what you have, what you are. Choose this moment. Choose to love and remember. You are full. You are alive.

~ Kimber Simpkins

You kids were all planned, you were just planned really, really quickly.

~ Candace Allan

[V]alue your dreams but . . . be wary of them also, . . . look for integrity in unusual places.

~ Azar Nafisi

I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way.

~ James Weston

You can only move if you are actually in the moment. You have to be where you are to get where you need to go.

~ Amy Poehler

It's only natural for people to fall, but there are people who, even if they fall, jump right back up right away and run forward, and there are people who just keep sitting there, crying.

~ Ilchi Lee

Not to put too fine a point on it, if you want the dream, if you want to sculpt the magic inside your head and heart for real, if you want the recognition, if you want your true identity to be glowing, taking charge and fueling the electricity of life, instead of being stuck and feeling bad. If that’s what you want, you have to let go. By which I mean bolt crop the chains of old – and THAT was by far the hardest thing I’ve done.

~ Annaliese Morgan

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee?

~ Michael Jay

If variety is the spice of life, then my life must be one of the spiciest you ever heard of. A curry of a life. -Paul Child

~ Julia Child

...The more I learned the more I realized how very much one has to know before one is in-the-know at all.

~ Julia Child

I discovered that when one follows the artist's eye one sees unexpected treasures in so many seemingly ordinary scenes.

~ Julia Child

He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.

~ Jeffrey Rasley

I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story.

~ Jolina Petersheim

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat.That was until I became one...

~ Cathryn Kemp

Your past doesn't dictate what your future will be.

~ Jillian Bullock

Chris didn’t need to learn how to conquer fear. He had to embrace it, walk with it and listen to it.

~ Michelle Tackabery

Some people like me, some don't. I don't understand, Where the difference comes from. My heart like them all. For a simple childish reason. We all are created equal, we all are humans.

~ Santosh Kalwar

SuccessIf you want a thing bad enoughTo go out and fight for it,Work day and night for it,Give up your time and your peace and your sleep for itIf only desire of itMakes you quite mad enoughNever to tire of it,Makes you hold all other things tawdry and cheap for itIf life seems all empty and useless without itAnd all that you scheme and you dream is about it,If gladly you'll sweat for it,Fret for it,Plan for it,Lose all your terror of God or man for it,If you'll simply go after that thing that you want.With all your capacity,Strength and sagacity,Faith, hope and confidence, stern pertinacity,If neither cold poverty, famished and gaunt,Nor sickness nor painOf body or brainCan turn you away from the thing that you want,If dogged and grim you besiege and beset it,You'll get it!

~ Berton Braley

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

~ Edouard Manet

Kids are real artists. They’d rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside.

~ Shawn Lukas

Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it imposes, however rigid these may be... I see it as the clearest evidence of genius when an artist follows his conception, his idea, his principle, so unswervingly that he has this truth of his constantly in his control, never letting go of it even for the sake of his own enjoyment of his work.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

~ Andres Serrano

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

~ Henri Matisse

Mediocrity is Death.

~ Suleman Abdullah

The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.

~ Marina Abramović

Every capitalist is rich, but every rich is not a capitalist.

~ Amit Kalantri

Capitalism is an ability to stay rich and keep getting rich.

~ Amit Kalantri

Possibly, some cynic, at once merry and bitter, had desired to signify, in this pantomimic scene, that we mortals, whatever our business or amusement--however serious, however trifling--all dance to one identical tune, and, in spite of our ridiculous activity, bring nothing finally to pass.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

The lesson I have to teach is this: Leave all creative energies uninhibited. Merely organize society to act in harmony with this lesson. Let society's legal apparatus remove all obstacles the best it can. Permit these creative know-hows freely to flow. Have faith that free men and women will respond to the Invisible Hand. This faith will be confirmed. I, Pencil, seemingly simple though I am, offer the miracle of my creation as testimony that this is a practical faith, as practical as the sun, the rain, a cedar tree, the good earth.

~ Leonard Edward Read

Empowerment is the ability to refine, improve, and enhance your life without co-dependency.

~ Steve Maraboli

It's not that difficult you see, To be all that you can be;For the true secret to success, Is simply this...ALWAYS do your best.

~ Danielle Pierre

Adorn ritual; decorate shrines of love, hope, tranquility. Be significant. Arrive deliberate. . .

~ Cathleen Margaret

A person who does not know himself... can not commit to another person. Without being genuine to yourself you are unable to be genuine to anyone else.

~ Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

Stop making shame a virtue.

~ Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

THE FEAR OF ITThey say that resistanceto something inevitable makes it seem worse than it is. Maybe the trickis to give in,try to increase the worry, bend like a tree in the storm, give pain its due,find the center of it and look at it plainly, turn it carefullyin the palm of your hand,and realize it can own only so much of you,unless you give it more.It is a balloonthat can get only so big.Anything more is just the fear of it.

~ Kat Lehmann

I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.

~ Emma Watson

Vulnerability is not a weakness, it strengthensone and allows one to be okay with ones emotions. Be in touch with yourself.Be yourself!

~ Christine Willson