Random Inspirational Quotes

"There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world."

"Love isn’t in a hurry like a flurry of flowery words on paper. It’s lush and slow to grow its aroma in the garden of time."

"I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you."

"You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen"

"Let the love of the moon kiss you good night, let the morning sun wake you up with loving light."

"Politeness is deception in pretty packaging."

"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."

"People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail."

"If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly."

"I'm a bit of a clothes hoarder, admittedly. I try to weed out stuff. My girlfriends come over for cheese and wine and go shopping in my wardrobe. They especially love it when they get stuff with a tag still on."

"When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book."

"Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction."

"With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you."

"You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain-- no matter how smart or accomplished--they cry, they yearn, they hurt. But instead of looking down on things, they look up, which is where I should have been looking, too. Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love and a peaceful heart."

"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."

"That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!"

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."

"Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else."

"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think."