Inspirational Quotes

There has to be new words to explain new worlds.

Toba Beta

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.

Helen Hayes

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.)

Saloma Miller Furlong

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Max McKeown

All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!

J.M. Barrie

Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012)

Nigel Hey

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

John Sloan

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Marilyn vos Savant

What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

Dom Hubert Van Zeller

Perform your task and I shall know you. Perform your task and your genius shall befriend the more.

Ogwo David Emenike

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Eckhart Tolle

We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell the truth or speak our mind or say anything too intense. Well, I'm telling you here that this approach not only makes you party to other people's crimes against themselves but is a prescription for mediocrity and delusion

Kelly Cutrone

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

Calvin Miller

The best lessons learned are from other peoples mistakes.

Melissa Bradley

A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.

Michelle D. Rosado

Maybe we shouldn't be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.

C. JoyBell C.

I remember in treatment, Mr. Shaw told me that the alcohol and drugs never were my problem. He said the alcohol and drugs were my solution and that was my problem. And he was right.

Ryan Winfield

Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!

C. JoyBell C.

Good deeds have echoes.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

What you are or where you came from is not important. It is who you are and the choices you make, that determine who you will become. If you can look inward and be satisfied, the opinions of others should melt away.

J.D. Stroube