Inspirational Quotes

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being unofficial.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

I suppose we all tend to want the impossible. And sometimes in attempting it we achieve something near enough to the impossible to elicit satisfaction.

~ Julie Anne Long

I shall always inspire many hearts in timeless moments.

~ Angelica Hopes

I would have grown up to be a gentleman adventurer if I were more of a gentleman.

~ Alex Potvin

Never stick your tongue out at someone you can't lick.

~ Sid Bolon

Failure is just success rounded down, my friend!

~ Ryan North

You know you’re not perfect and that’s good. Perfect is boring. You have a lot to offer. A lot more to experience and so many things to learn. There are more pages to fill up so act your age.

~ Diana Rose Morcilla

Life is not always what we want it to be, but we can color it any way we like, in order to make it the perfect painting, even when things look rough, there is someone out there who has it worse than us.

~ Gia Russell

Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

~ Heather Brewer

I can't die yet, honey. I haven't finished counting the stars and don't you know, my darling girl, that you will never be alone, because there is always love, and love lives forever.

~ Barbara Freethy

Do the new, be the change.

~ Neeraj Vohara

You'll make mistakes because it's impossible to know what is or isn't a mistake until it's made.

~ Stephenie Meyer

Accept, forgive and forget. Forgive not only the people who hurt us, but also forgive ourselves, accepting whatever is the outcome, then forget the wrongs, learn from them and move on. Holding on to the guilt and pain would just make life miserable for us.

~ Kcat Yarza

If you end up with the story you started with, you weren't listening along the way.

~ Matt Heineman

People who are detained (held in prison) are locked up by their past, and because you are locked up by your past you are held hostage by your yesterdays. And if you are held hostage by your yesterdays, you cannot see your tomorrows. -- Rev. Earl Smith, author, Death Row Chaplain, creator of IMPACT (Incarcerated Men Putting Away Childish Things)

~ Rev. Earl Smith

I stop at the tune store, where I'm greeted by Javier and Jules. Half the store is Javier's, half is Jules's—they have entirely different musical tastes, so you have to know going in whether the tune you're looking for is more like Javier or Jules. They have been together for more than twenty years, and today as they offer me cider and argue the blues, I want to ask them how they've done it. To be together with someone for twenty years seems like an eternity to me. I can't seem to manage twenty days. Twenty weeks would be a stretch. How can they stand there behind the counter, spinning songs for each other day in and day out? How can they find things to say—how can they avoid saying things they'll always regret? How do you stay together? I want to ask them, the same way I want to ask my happy parents, the same way I want to go up to old people and ask them 'what is it like to live so long'?

~ David Levithan

What seems is not what is. Because, none knows what is left, when it is all right!

~ Pooja A.h.

Teenagers are complicated and at times stubborn, yes, but we are not dumb. We see the world in a different light than the rest do, and sometimes, we’re misunderstood because of it. And that’s alright. That must be the definition of ‘human being’: Misunderstood. But neither of us should tolerate degradation in any of it forms.

~ Pamela Nicole

In that second, I think about running through that door and going with him. But I know that it’s not the road I’m meant for.Because we’re both still incapable of love. We’re both not ready yet.And I know that I’ll miss him. And some nights, I’ll cry in my sleep.But for now, I’m okay. And that’s all that matters.The void in my heart has finally been filled.And as the train moves farther and farther from me on the platform, I can only smile.

~ L. Jayne

As a teenager, I didn’t want to be me; I wanted to be many different people. Maybe I realized that they all lived inside me and that if I managed to connect with them, they would become aspects of me.

~ Marion Cotillard

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity...and some scare see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.—William Blake (1757-1827)

~ Hilary Scharper

Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.

~ Zygmunt Bauman

Everyone's on the cliff edge of normal. Everyone finds life an utter nightmare sometimes, and there's no 'normal' way of dealing with it... There is no normal, Evelyn.

~ Holly Bourne

Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter.

~ Katelyn S. Bolds

Let’s quit trying so hard to be some version of a normal we’ve never really been.

~ Scott Stabile

Standing up for oneself is not always easy but it is often the only way to walk our true life path. The beaten path only gets you where most people go. Be original and explore new roads.

~ Nanette Mathews

Live like you want, not how others want you to live.

~ Anonymous

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

~ Om Puri

Sometimes it takes a lot of courage to be who you are.

~ Joan Bauer

Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you.

~ Steve Maraboli

Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart

~ Paula Abdul

Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.

~ Seneca

Give me a land of boughs in leafA land of trees that stand,Where trees are fallen there is grief,I love no leafless land.

~ A.e. Housman

StillIn the fall, I believe again in poetryif nothing else it isa movement of the mind.Summers ball togetherinto sticky lumps,spring evenings are glass beads from one mouldfor standard-size youth,winter a smooth heaviness, not even cold.But the mind trembleshere, on the brinkthe mind tremblesthere is life, after all,there is life, stillunbelief left.

~ Jaakko A. Ahokas

Floating along like a leaf after fallI land soft on the crisp ground belowstill tempted to fly, God hold me in place.

~ N.m. Cherraj

It's not the fall but the impact...

~ Hiba Fatima Ahmad

Things fall apart. But things don't just fall apart. People break them.

~ Robin Wasserman

His [Luke]letter went something like this: Dear Mr President, Thank you for introducing me to the Hall of Famers and for showing me the Oval Office. I think if I work really hard I will have a chance for both.The next time I saw the president I told him about my son's ambitious plans. His response was beautiful: Never get between a boy and his dreams

~ Tim Russert

Fear was the worst evil ever to plague a man, for with it came hesitation and with that, inaction, failure, death.

~ Melissa Mcphail

Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.

~ Lawrence Bixby