Random Inspirational Quotes

"Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it."

"Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive."

"One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let what was once a miracle become common to us. We get so accustomed to his goodness it becomes a routine.."

"In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you'd get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it's hard work, almost harder once you're successful because you've got to maintain it."

"My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world."

"Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve."

"Forget [10w] {Couplet} Let's lift our goblet of regret,forgive, forsake and forget."

"She shook off the self-recrimination. What-ifs and could-have-beens were not the way to move forward. She knew that from experience."

"Lose your self to find yourself."

"In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure."

"One glance at (a book) and you hear the voice of another person - perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millenia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time."

"Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead"

"Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun."

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."

"Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

"Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is."

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"