Inspirational Quotes

We must think beyond ourselves

A loud smile is often a fake laugh.

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

But just because you love something, I added to myself, doesn't mean you'll ever be great. Not if you don't work. Most people stink at the things they love.

One truth doesn't refute another. Truth doesn't lie in the object, but in how we see it.

Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion.

George, she says it's the truth that matters. We live and die for the chance to maybe tell a little bit of the truth, maybe shame the Devil just a little bit before we go.

Behold the power of the truth. When people see its shadow on the wall, they don't want to take the time to look away.

There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

She told the truth as she saw it, and she died for it. I came along for the ride, and I lived. It wasn't worth it. But it was the truth, and it was what had to happen.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

If God didn't want you to be a dreamer, He wouldn't go around handing out dreams! That's a clue!

What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, "I Can." You'll love how he achieves it. He reconnects your soul with God.

Faithfulness imparts God's reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

I don't trust men everybody likes. Being nice isn't the same as being good.

Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.

It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful.

To be immortal and then die

Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

to be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

Amid the thousands of shrill voices screaming for our attention, there is but on Voice we need to hear. The voice of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

... too much brooding, not enough doing.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

... fantasy is not practice for what is real—fantasy is the opiate of women.

I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.

Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.

What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.

Your tears are my prayers.

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

To conquer fear, you must become fear.

In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

God is the ultimate judge of what is truly in our souls. But we are requiered to forgive everyone.

To believe in miracles in one thing...to know what miracle you want to manifest right now, and accept it, is another.

Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.

As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told.

She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.