Random Inspirational Quotes

"Did you see me disarm Hermione, Harry?""Only once"said Hermione stung. "I got you loads more then you got me—""I did not only get you once, I got you at least three times—""Well if you're counting the one where you tripped over your own feet and knocked the wand out of my hand—"

"Faith is not a feeling, she says. It's a set of actions. By taking the actions, you demonstrate more faith than somebody who actually has experienced the rewards of prayer and so feels hope."

"As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But every night I am subdued by an anxiety that knows no irony, and I must wait until the next day to rediscover the blend of anguish and humor that characterizes my writing and that generates my style."

"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing."

"Mortals are odd creatures in that sense—flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature."

"I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope."

"The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors."

"Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!"

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

"Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking."

"He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse."

"Life is absolutely impossible without love."

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."

"The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses."

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."

"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."

"Life ... is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing."

"They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet."