Inspirational Quotes

Without a whole lot of pressure, a diamond is just a piece of coal.

~ Miriam Darnell

Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses

~ Kamila Shamsie

If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted-I'd have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the net is waiting and it's precious to you. Do you know who is standing ready to tear it out of your hands? You can't know, it may be so involved and so far away, but someone is ready, and you're afraid of them all. And you cringe and you crawl and you beg and you accept them-just so they'll let you keep it. And look at whom you come to accept.

~ Ayn Rand

Sometimes changing the world is as simple as changing the way you look at it.

~ R.m. Arcejaeger

Without the quest, there can be no epiphany.

~ Constantine E. Scaros

Flame is the lamp, rest is borrowed.

~ R.n. Prasher

Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren't even there, some who were there were not really there, and some who were not really there were really there.

~ Tom Hays

If nature has composed the human body so that in its proportions the seperate individual elements answer to the total form, then the Ancients seem to have had reason to decide that bringing their creations to full completion likewise required a correspondence bewteen the measure of individual elements and the appearance of the work as a whole.

~ Vitruvius

Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die.

~ John Keats

Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further.

~ William Coperthwaite

It's best to locate the mind first before launching the 'missiles of contention'.

~ Gasmaskman

Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies in neither, but in sticking to a daily ritual and becoming absorbed in something useful. When the war is over, even the greatest warriors do not exult. They go back to their garden or kitchen or library -- or school -- and resume life.(as said by Mrs. Pearson)

~ Adam Gopnik

When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own.

~ William Coperthwaite

One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it

~ Albert Camus

Only by knowing yourself can you live honestly and find your own path.

~ Gregory Bassham

So many things become beautiful when you really look

~ Lauren Oliver

Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well.

~ Richard Llewellyn

It's in out-of-the-ordinary situations - especially situations of challenge or adversity - that the most important differences between people shine through.

~ Gregory Bassham

At the heart of all of mankind’s achievements is imagination.

~ R. L. Matthies

Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible.

~ Robin Paul Wood

How do you keep your emotions so under control, Nicolas? Even when you're doing things that have to bother you? She glanced up at him to make certain her question hadn't upset him.I don't do anything unless I believe it is necessary. If it's necessary then there's no reason for me to be bothered by it. The universe has a natural order. I do my best to flow with it and not try to control things outside of myself. The truth is, control is a myth. You can't control another person or even an event. You can only control yourself. So that's what I do.

~ Christine Feehan

Live the way life does, love the way they does

~ Prashant Joshi

The way we live, decides the meaning of life.And the way we die, tells how much meaningful we made it.

~ Shashank Rayal

Travel is useful, it exercises the imagination. All the rest is disappointment and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. That is its strength.It goes from life to death. People, animals, cities, things, all are imagined. It's a novel, just a fictitious narrative. Littre says so and he's never wrong.And besides, in the first place, anyone can do as much. You just have to close your eyes.It's on the other side of life.

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

As we try to envisage what the world will be like for our grandchildren and imagine who will inherit the good and bad we leave behind, we pause to think of those who have shaped our attitudes. We pay homage to those spirits who have expanded our potential for understanding the unique circumstances of our lives and who have given us hope and courage to be strong and live bravely. We will always be fascinated by the thoughts of others, and by the way they have expressed their truths and insights, because they are the real teachers. They have shared with us the truth as they have experienced it.

~ Alexandra Stoddard

I think it's early. Early in our lives. Early in the night. Early in the new year. If you're counting, you'll notice the earlys outnumber the lates.

~ Jennifer Niven

The people there were gods and midgets and knew themselves mortal and so the midgets walked tall so as not to embarrass the gods and the gods crouched so as to make the small ones feel at home.

~ Ray Bradbury

The gift within every gift is always opportunity.

~ Steindl Rast David

Love is an operation theatre, where you find the scalpel and the stitches

~ عبادة زياد الحمدان

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.

~ Romain Rolland

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

~ David Bowie

We all see the world through the prism of our identity.

~ Ethan Hawke

Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.

~ Lao Tzu

Sometimes, one needs another pair of eyes to see things clearly.

~ Aguidon

Some women barter their bodies like whores with wedding bands. Some use sex like a sword. But some women can touch a man and heal like Jesus.

~ Paula Wall

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

~ Kahlil Gibran

The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:The moon is within me, and so is the sun.The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.So long as man clamors for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:When that comes, then work is put away.The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.The musk is in the deer, but is seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.

~ Kabir

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

~ Belart Wright

We are, now, just as valuable, intelligent, and real as Eliot or any of his contemporaries. Our ideas and experiences are just as sound and true. Our passion to save our world from what we see it becoming is just as authentic. We are always the Lost Generation, but with different accoutrements.

~ Nate Ragolia

Every day the world subtracts from itself and nothingis immune.

~ Luanne Castle