Random Inspirational Quotes

"Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind."

"Give me the Love that leads the wayThe Faith that nothing can dismayThe Hope no disappointments tireThe Passion that'll burn like fireLet me not sink to be a clodMake me Thy fuel, Flame of God"

"The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease."

"Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms."

"I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?"

"Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give."

"There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart."

"In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way of saying, 'I'm unattached to that.' You're tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first."

"Don't write to sell, write to tell."

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."

"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."

"It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all"

"You can swim, too."he says. "Where did you learn that in District Twelve?""We have a very big bathtub."

"Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey."

"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it."

"I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…"

"It is closer to the truth to say that God is crazy than that God is reasonable. I suspect God merely smiles when someone calls him crazy, but shakes His head and frowns when someone calls Him reasonable."

"Body and soul can never be marriedI need to become who I already am and will bellow forever at this incongruity which has committed me to hell"

"I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies"

"Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that."