Inspirational Quotes

The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find.

~ Phil Cousineau

Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

~ Joseph Campbell

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

~ Joseph Campbell

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

~ Joseph Campbell

Awe is what moves us forward.

~ Joseph Campbell

In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.Awe is what moves us forward.

~ Joseph Campbell

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

~ Kelly Cutrone

Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

~ Stephen R. Covey

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.

~ Zig Ziglar

Information is the most valuable commodity on the surface of the earth.

~ Adedayo Olabamiji

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

~ Brennan Manning

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way.

~ Hugh Howey

‎Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.

~ Trina Paulus

The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

~ Tom Robbins

It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre.

~ N.k. Jemisin

Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land.

~ Timothy Findley

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

~ Lisa Kleypas

Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it.

~ Bill Loguidice

The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.

~ Jennifer Haigh

Take that rose bush, for example. We are all looking at the same plant, but our perception of it varies according to the way we each think and see. One person may see a vigorous rose, another may see a rose that could benefit from a little pruning, and a third may see a mess that no amount of attention would save. The rose bush isn't changing; it's the way we personally perceive it that differs, the way each of us thinks that colors our perception.

~ Sydney Banks

It's better to lose something than never to have had

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm avoiding tomorrow, by spending more time in today.

~ Ellie Elisabeth

The fact is, nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best that he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.

~ James Weldon Johnson

Perfectionism is a delusion that can rob one of a very successful, enriching life if not careful.

~ April Bryan

He said, You know, whoever hurt youdies every time they look in the mirror.That is how they pay.She crossed her arms.And one day, Maria, you will die too,but there's no reason for you to dieevery day.

~ Toby Barlow

If you love someone, you don't act like they annoy you. You like them, and you try and make them think they're the most important person in the world to you.

~ Susan May Warren

Re-examine all that you have been told, dismiss that which insults your soul.

~ Walt Whitman

Anytime a group of people assemble for a common cause, amazing things can happen.

~ Deiamor Verus

Talk To God Ch 13 p. 90: No it doesn't have to be a prayer. It could be someone just concentrating extremely hard, wishing or hoping that will create the vibe if they are so moved. And that vibe, as you will learn, becomes extremely powerful beyond earth. That vibe drives the universe. But don't confuse this. Forget about prayers. You don't need to pray to communicate with others. That's a religious definition, not a human or a God thing. When you are concentrating on your wishes, focusing on something you desire or wish to share, your soul and spirit are reaching out to all other humans near you, using your brain as the communicator and returning the support to you. If people near you are aware and are moved to respond, they will. And that response is a powerful, electric, spirited response that carries with it the ability to give that person the supporting power, the strength and the ability to assist them in doing whatever it is they desire. And what all humans desire, and the energy that is exchanged with one another, in human terms, is love.

~ Deiamor Verus

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

~ Andrei Tarkovsky

Because thoughts are energy, energy is matter, and matter never disappears...

~ Wendy Wunder

It is uncertain where Death will await you,there expect it everywhere.

~ Seneca

It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after.

~ Rebecca Solnit

The glories of our blood and stateAre shadows, not substantial things;There is no armor against Fate.Death lays his icy hand on kings...

~ James Shirley

It's like a lion at the door;And when the door begins to crack,It's like a stick across you back;And when your back begins to smart,It's like a penknife in your heart;And when your heart begins to bleed,You're dead, and dead, and dead, indeed.

~ John Newberry

We can fly!“We can become butterflies!“There’s nothing at the topand it doesn’t matter!”As he heard his ownmessage he realized howhe had misread the instinctto get high.To get to the “top” hemust fly, not climb.

~ Trina Paulus

Once you are a butterfly,you can really love – thekind of love that makes anew life. It’s better than allthe hugging caterpillars cando.

~ Trina Paulus

Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!It only looked good from the bottom.

~ Trina Paulus

At such a time it seems natural and good to me to ask myself these questions. What do I believe in? What must I fight for and what must I fight against?

~ John Steinbeck