Inspirational Quotes

The greatest act of faith some days is to simply get up and face another day.

Amy Gatliff

The best things in life make you sweaty.

Edgar Allan Poe

I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.

Maya Angelou

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make a writer mad, he'll end up writing Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottantail.

Leon Uris

i realize you cant just throw real gems at ppl...because they think cubic zirconia is the real thing lol

Fee Scott

Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

Henry James

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Toni Morrison

Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.

D.H. Lawrence

My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its own. I can guide and hope and nudge my characters this and that way, but in the end, they become what they become. I don't always like what they become myself, but like a parent, there are times when I just don't know what to do about it. Other times when I'm so proud of them I could bust.

Laura Kinsale

When a writer is able to experience the whole range of human emotions, from deep depressions to glorious highs, it creates a whole inventory of feelings and musings from which they can choose and infuse into their words and characters.

David Perry

So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not leave us.

David Malouf

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all...that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make it worth living and also worth giving...and that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear.

Eve Curie Labouisse

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Fred Rogers

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

Napoleon Hill

The only test is what you see when you look in a mirror.

Steve Backley

Be happy with who you are and respect not only others but your own opinions and beliefs as well, that way we can all live along peacefully.

Isabella Irini Poretsis

There's pain behind us all...but more so with those who hate and abuse. Think about it!

Timothy Pina

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world.

Sharon Maas

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

Daisaku Ikeda

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

T.H. White