Random Inspirational Quotes

"Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time."

"There's always a but. It's a magical word. You can say anything you want, go on for as long as you want, and then all you have to do is add the magic word and instantly everything you said is erased, turned meaningless, just like that."

"What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?"

"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"Do you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you."And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' "Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72)"

"I want to start a business making mint-flavored sunshine that comes in a can half full of meow-free rainbows. (Leprechauns sold separately.)"

"I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have."

"An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision."

"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success."

"The business of being happy requires making a conscious choice. People think being happy will just happen to them someday, if only they do this or that right. But it doesn't - you have to choose it. You choose happiness, you don't wait for it to choose you."

"Life is but a day:A fragile dewdrop on its perilious wayFrom a tree's summit"

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not."

"I've had great success being a total idiot."

"Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth."

"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing."

"Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty."

"Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers."

"You must have been going very fast.""I was, until I hit the fence."

"One is often so busy doing life that it is easy to avoid evaluating whether you are putting your energy in the direction you value most."

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."