Random Inspirational Quotes

"Knowledge & understanding mixed with ones convictions of 'experience' is hardly impositional". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]"

"To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse."

"Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."

"She didn't care that people called her a bitch. 'It's just another word for feminist,' she told me with pride."

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book."

"A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future."

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."

"A Paradox, the doughnut hole. Empty space, once, but now they've learned to market even that. A minus quantity; nothing, rendered edible. I wondered if they might be used-metaphorically, of course-to demonstrate the existence of God. Does naming a sphere of nothingness transmute it into being?"

"Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted."

"Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity."

"Napoleon made war like I make love—from a height of about 68 centimeters. (I wear platform shoes while I’m on my knees)"

"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."

"The universe speaks to us, if we have the courage to see it for what it is."

"To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity."

"But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis."

"Where there is anger there is always pain underneath."

"The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility."

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."