Inspirational Quotes

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

It’s better to look at the sky than live there

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

The routine is as much a part of the creative process as the lightening bold of inspiration, maybe more. And this routine is available to everyone.

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.

More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book.

The detour is always rougher than the main road

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

Paradise is where I am

He led his regiment from behind. He found it less exciting.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

Thinking is the hardest and most exhausting of all labor; and hence many people shrink from it.

Expose a child to a particular environment at this susceptible time and he will perceive in the shapes of that environment until he dies.

After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future world depends.

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

And to those who believe that adventures are i say try routine: it kills you far more quickly.

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.

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.

The night is just a part of the day

Make today worth remembering.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

To those who are given much, much is expected.

I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.

Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

I thought maybe a day was coming when I'd stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I'd just start living, no questions asked.

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

You are never alone. You are eternally connected with everyone.

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it

Nobody steals books but your friends.

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.