Random Inspirational Quotes

"Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."

"Remember, the past need not become our future as well."

"When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future."

"Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience."

"When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge stronger from this.' My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded."

"The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist,"says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."

"Things which are accidentally the causes either of hope or fear are called good or evil omens."

"She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away."

"I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party."

"The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front."

"If you don't like me, if you like me; both are equally cool. I send love and positive energy to all those people in their lives. I hope they find where they're meant to be."

"Freddie often fold me that you've got to be happy when you can, because life won't wait for you to take the time. And she was right."

"The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died."

"No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."

"We are born and reborn again and again. We are changing with the waves of time."

"She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars."

"We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don't, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it."

"It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage."

"But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last."

"In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot."