Inspirational Quotes

You cannot live your life in ifs and maybes...you cannot live it in week commencings. You live it right here. You live it now.

~ Stella Newman

Funny to think that every day you have ever lived is a yesterday, and you will never live one single tomorrow. But then again, every day is a today when you’re living it.

~ Mik Everett

This is our Country, there is nobody else who is going to come from outside to defend us. We need to wake up and defend ourselves to make this Country a beautiful and better Country for all of us.

~ Peter Ombedha

I got nothing to lose cause i got nothing.

~ John Yang Aka Private83

When you're used to having nothing, nothing becomes your everything, and you never really want for anything. But it's a double-edged sword, because there's the danger of becoming complacent, becoming too happy with that nothing, because you've never known anything better. Complacency is the death of dreams, and freedom.

~ Isaac Hooke

Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams.

~ Neil Gaiman

Every novel is an attempt to capture time, to weave something solid out of air. The author knows it is an impossible task - that is why he keeps on trying.

~ David Beaty

I think: perhaps the sky is a huge sea of fresh water and we, instead of walking under it, walk on top of it; perhaps we see everything upside down and the earth is a kind of sky, so that when we die, when we die, we fall and sink into the sky.The Implacable Order of Things

~ José Luís Peixoto

I gain nothing but pleasure from writing fiction; short stories are foreplay, novellas are heavy petting – but novels are the full monte. Frankly, if I didn't enjoy writing novels I wouldn't do it – the world hardly needs any more and I can think of numerous more useful things someone with my skills could be engaged in. As it is, the immersion in parallel but believable worlds satisfies all my demands for vicarious experience, voyeurism and philosophic calithenics. I even enjoy the mechanics of writing, the dull timpani of the typewriter keys, the making of notes – many notes – and most seducttive of all: the buying of stationery. That the transmogrification of my beautiful thoughts into a grossly imperfect prose is always the end result doesn't faze me: all novels are only a version- there is no Platonic ideal. But I'd go further still: fiction is my way of thinking about and relating to the world; if I don't write I'm not engaged in any praxis, and lose all purchase.

~ Will Self

If I would have known I was going to leave my job that day to become a writer, I probably would have planned differently... It didn't come by way of illness per se, accident, or dismissal, but by way of sheer self-mutiny. The self I was born to be, decided to hijack the one I had created.

~ Dawn Kohler

Life is like a blank page, copying manuscript written Backstage.

~ Jawwad Zafar

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

~ Patrick Ness

Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis.

~ Patrick Ness

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

~ Patrick Ness

Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many of them.

~ Ann Leckie

See that path in front of you? That path has been laid before you, the one that you’re supposed to take, the one you’re told to take through life…just like everyone else. If you follow that path, you’ll be following all the rules, you’ll always know that you did what everyone wanted you to do and you’ll make it through…See that path in front of you? I dare you to step off and make your own.

~ Travis Culliton

The paradox of quantum physics in the 21st Century, awakens us to the realisation that nothing matters in and of itself. That nothing can be stated with certainty; but everything is just a mathematical probability occurring in an instance of space-time convergence, which forms our objective reality in the present moment.

~ Denis John George

Don't let the Sun go down on you today. Be the light instead, that shines forth and touches everyone's shadow, awakening them to that light.

~ Denis John George

When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are.

~ Ilchi Lee

We cannot change outcomes, but we can change causes

~ Seth Czerepak

The miracle lies in the newness of a morning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you work you will never go hungry.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I cried because sometimes no matter what you try to hide behind— letters or texts or emails or a busy schedule— life still finds a way to barrel through all the distractions. And life still hurts. Even though it's beautiful.

~ Hannah Brencher

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.

~ Leo Tolstoy

There is always a way out, as there is a way in

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

I will do all things to please the Lord,for he is my inner strength. He gives and I recieve,though I should give my all like he did for me

~ Marcelo López

They all had defining color running through their gray existence.

~ Jessica M. Collette

I never told anyone this before but my Layla is my rain.

~ Randolph Randy Camp

All everyone is trying to do is create a better life for the human race. Why can't everyone stop fighting and start working together to accomplish that?

~ L.t. Gibbons

Evening's soft solitude Surrounds the dayEmitting precious peace.

~ Deborah D. Johnson

Most of us don't win instantly.Instant wins usually don't last.Real wins come slow.Real wins don't come easy,But they do come.And when we win,It is extraordinary!

~ Deborah D. Johnson

You can't be born again, but you can change.

~ Natsuki Takaya

I have frequently thought to myself, 'If I can teach my daughter one thing, it will be the love of self unconditionally.' Unconditional love and peace are obtainable, but they are only obtainable if I can learn to move beyond the conditions that I placed on my life. When conditions are placed on my life and on the lives of others, they ensure that I will never experience the depths of love and happiness.

~ Asa Don Brown

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko

To want a gift and not receive it,that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is eternal hell.

~ J. Scott Featherstone

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact... It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

~ Seth Godin

we will always be with u. we internalize traits we observe in others as a way to honor and remeber them. we are all living memorials

~ Jomny Sun

You Tavi,” he answered her, putting her mind to rest. “You’re his legacy, everything he was, he taught you, passed himself on through you in a father daughter bond. He was very proud of the young woman you’ve become, and he loved you greatly, he will always live on in your heart. And one day you’ll pass on some of what he taught you to others, then he’ll continue to live on through them too, that way he’ll never be forgotten or truly gone. Every day something you do will remind you of him and you’ll remember him with love and affection, that’s a great legacy to leave behind Tavi.

~ Sallyann Phillips

Be careful how you live your life, millions are watching you. You may be inspiring or uninspiring many.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

We have an infinite ability to make an impact but we have a finite time here to make a difference and to leave some sort of legacy

~ Thomas Narofsky