Random Inspirational Quotes

"Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him."

"I didn't dream about you last night. I woke up in fear."

"fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul."

"It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!"

"Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work"itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work,"whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men,"as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction"

"In tough and desperate times when your creativity begs to be birthed, loose the confines of the ground; stand up in your faith and walk atop the waves…"

"In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends."

"Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."

"A painter, who finds no satisfaction in mere representation, however artistic, in his longing to express his inner life, cannot but envy the ease with which music, the most non-material of the arts today, achieves this end. He naturally seeks to apply the methods of music to his own art."

"Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve."

"So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of them. [...] human souls are more free when they persevere in the contemplation of the mind of God, less free when they descend to the corporeal, and even less free when they are entirely imprisoned in earthly flesh and blood."

"Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized."

"Today I have nothing to do except sing the songs of peace."

"My grandpa died yesterday. I ought to know, because I shot him. So come, join me in the fight against patricide by killing your father’s father."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

"For a game, you don’t need a teacher."

"There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt."

"The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts."

"Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade..."