Inspirational Quotes

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.

~ Eoin Colfer

The real strength of therose bush is not in the flowers but in the roots and the branches.

~ Dorcas Kareithi

Regardless of where you are and where you think you should be, you is where you is. Accept that fact. And at the same time, become aware of and accept another universal fact: the only constant is change. You are always exactly where you need to be...

~ Jordan Finneseth

Tell them what you do, and if they want to know more, they’ll ask.

~ Auliq Ice

A second chance is a direct pathway to a grateful heart and an astonished mind.

~ Holly Elissa Bruno

Bliss happens when we release all resistance to the moment.

~ Stacy Romillah

Short story collections are the literary equivalent of canapés, tapas and mezze in the world of gastronomy: Delightful assortments of tasty morsels to whet the reader's appetite.

~ Alex Morritt

Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes inthe cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We are players who are here to stay, and the universe was built with us in mind. We reflect it, with our deepest loves and loftiest aspirations, just as it reflects us.

~ Eben Alexander M.d.

I may never fly—in the bird sort of way. But I do have wings.

~ Jacqueline Simon Gunn

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite... Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

~ Nelson Mandela

Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

~ Hippocrates

In this work against sickness, we begin not with genetic or cellular interactions, but with human ones. They are what make medicine so complex and fascinating.

~ Atul Gawande

A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too.

~ George Eliot

Effort does matter, diligence and attention to the minutest details can save you.

~ Atul Gawande

What is troubling is not just being average but settling for it. Everyone knows that average-ness is, for most of us, our fate. And in certain matters—looks, money, tennis—we would do well to accept this. But in your surgeon, your child's pediatrician, your police department, your local high school? When the stakes are our lives and the lives of our children, we want no one to settle for average.

~ Atul Gawande

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

Many of my friends think I read books all day and alphabetize the shelves. Well, sometimes I do alphabetize shelves. But more often than not, my job title could be friend. Or just simply caring ear. Public librarians are often part information seekers, part social workers.

~ Carrie O'maley

I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.

~ Alice Hoffman

On less lucid evenings, every library is a haunted cemetery.

~ S.d. Chrostowska

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

~ Joanne Harris

De Profundis by Oscar Wilde (this excerpt inspired my book, The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap. Wilde wrote it to his lover while in prison.)When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice. It is only by realizing what I am that I have found comfort of any kind. Now I am advised by others to try on my release to forget that I have ever been in a prison at all. I know that would be equally fatal. It would mean that I would always be haunted by an intolerable sense of disgrace, and that those things that are meant for me as much as for anybody else – the beauty of the sun and moon, the pageant of the seasons, the music of daybreak and the silence of great nights, the rain falling through the leaves, or the dew creeping over the grass and making it silver – would all be tainted for me, and lose their healing power, and their power of communicating joy. To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

~ Paulette Mahurin

What use is the internet if not for spreading pixels of happiness?

~ Isis Sky

But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I didn't care if they sang to me.All I wanted was to block out all the human voices as they called me name again and again,pulling me upward into light,to drown.

~ Sarah Dessen

Some say you have only one shot in life, well if you get ammo, you can reload.

~ Micah Elza

GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current…

~ Tom Stoppard

Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.

~ Christopher Pike

Patient is a persistent act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Persistence is what keeps you hanging on when hanging on gets tough.

~ Debasish Mridha

Persistence is a necessary ingredient for success.

~ Debasish Mridha

Either you make things happen or you quit.

~ Vivian Weissman

Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I will not be defined by the marks left on me by the world, but by the mark I leave on the world (referring to the facial scars he still carries from his successful 1991 battle against cancer, which caused him to be turned down for a customer service job because he was too ugly).

~ James Houston Turner

When the management iceberg is shaped like a huge phallus, you know that there are a lot of tossers that the top penguin has had to climb over to reach the tip and that there is no shortage of the same caliber of penguin in the balls and shaft of the corporation, just waiting for their chance to get a spurt to the top. Should I sugar coat this a little more? or tell it like it is?

~ Daniel Prokop

That's why I bake. To fill fairies with goodness.And it was true, she realized. She didn't run the kitchen just to boss other fairies around. She didn't give orders just to make herself feel important. Well, at least she wouldn't anymore. No. The day before, she hadn't missed that part of her job at all. She had missed the baking. She had missed creating something for others to enjoy.And, oh, how she wanted to go back to work!

~ Gail Herman

The customer always comes first.

~ Rajen Jani

Quality products and personalized attention secures retail customers.

~ Rajen Jani

Going out of the way for a customer increases sales.

~ Rajen Jani

Customer complaints need to be addressed effectively.

~ Rajen Jani

A measured response trumps a triggered reaction every time. Breathe first.

~ Rev. Alexander