Inspirational Quotes

I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Saying sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt & forgiving doesn't mean that the pain is gone.

I believe it's a cook's moral obligation to add more butter given the chance.

One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.

For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.

The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.

If you are a dreamer come in

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.

I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied

Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

Sad stories make good books

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

Life's managed, not cured.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

The truth is revealed when you are ready to receive it when you need it in order to move forward to take the next step in your journey. to move on toward your destiny.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

Let yourself be enchanted in small ways.

We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.

People who demand signs never believe them when they come.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

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

The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses.

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.