Random Inspirational Quotes

"Poets and Competitiveness [10w] "I'm the only poet I need to be better than."

"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

"There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God."

"Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read."

"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."

"You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad."

"The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!"

"To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)"

"They say even death can't cure an idiot.-Ririn"

"Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue."

"Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom."

"In this universe, love is the liberating force from the prison of judgment."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"Write to your fear."

"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."

"Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts."

"I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand."

"People say, 'It's hard to forgive...et al'. I think it's much harder to live peacefully. So, forgive and focus on living peacefully."

"In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it."

"You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against."