Random Inspirational Quotes

"Love is giving up control. It’s surrendering the desire to control the other person. The two—love and controlling power over the other person—are mutually exclusive. If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship."

"A tornado is the ultimate coffee grinder. Just add water, and you’ll wake the whole trailer park."

"We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions -- if they have any -- and helping them explore the things they are most interested in."

"Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse."

"I think now that fate is half shaped by expectation, half by inattention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation."

"I have a fear of palindromes. Maybe because the only person to ever beat the hell out of me was a man named Bob."

"There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist."

"Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose."

"Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly."

"It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."

"Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!"

"LightLightThe visible reminder of Invisible Light."

"There is no rest in the heart of God until He knows that you are at resh in His grace."

"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."

"When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding."

"Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora."

"Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way it works, a concept too powerful to ignore but too complicated to explain."

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."

"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."

"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."