Inspirational Quotes

Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation.

Attention has its most powerful expression in purposeful action.

...women, brave as stars at dawn

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.

... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.

Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need.

Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.

Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind.

I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.

Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned.

Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment.

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

Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

Maybe being married is talking to oneself with one's other self listening.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

Take care of your life force and always keep it streaming. Always be active and creative, and never ever stop dreaming.

If you have a dream, FOLLOW IT.

That somehow dreams are a blurred line between here and there, like a meeting room in a prison. You’re both in the same room, yet on different sides and really, in different worlds.

My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that [bleep]ing dream!

Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.

The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.

Ah, the magic of music, with it, all things are possible.

It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.

The harp sounds at each passing breeze, but that does not mean the tune is masterfully played.

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.

What we find to love or to hate comes to us as a substitute for something else.

Say something worthwhile and people will listen.

we are not leaving anyone behind we have to stick togheter in order to stay safe.

Only something extremely dire and disabling will ever stop a real writer from writing. Retirement is never an option.

That's it. Love makes us all strong.