Random Inspirational Quotes

"You own everything that happend to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.-- Anne Lamott"

"The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom."

"I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain. --Valentine, while in Italy (pg 267)"

"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."

"Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.[Songs of Longing]"

"You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you."

"The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him."

"I keep water in my pockets, as portable fish tanks. My love letters often get soggy with sentimentality."

"CLEMENTINE: This is it, Joel. It's going to be gone soon.JOEL: I know.CLEMENTINE: What do we do?JOEL: Enjoy it."

"In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did."

"The truth is like a nipple: the more you twist it, the more somebody is going to get hurt."

"A clever person solves a problem; a wise person uses Cosmic Ordering!"

"In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else."

"I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul"

"One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation."

"I remember being surrounded by the heaven-sent scent of July pine in the Rockies, as you and I laughed and danced like the snow would never come. Now, as the snow covers everything, just like I in these sheets, I close my eyes, preparing myself to see you again, my summer queen.-Jarod Kintz and Tanzy Sayadi"

"2D or Not 2D [10w] The best thing about a two-dimensional world is nobody's fat."

"Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the lessons you’ve learned along the way. You must take the scars of your past and appreciate them for what they have taught you. You also have to take the scars, the lessons of your past and not let them control your future…."

"We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care."

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it."