Random Inspirational Quotes

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to."

"[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop."

"Fabulous Creatures and Trust Issues [10w] Never trust a sheep in wolf’s clothing despite the unicorn."

"They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another."

"Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed."

"Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty."

"Your mother won a special reward,"she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded."

"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."

"I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem."

"Forgive the past to welcome the future."

"A knock down has never been a knockout unless you allow it."

"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."

"Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age."

"The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God."

"Hotel hallways should have conveyer belts for floors, so I can feel like a grocery item on vacation. I guess I’m just a romantic."

"Let’s start with this statistic: You are delicious. Be brave, my sweet. I know you can get lonely. I know you can crave companionship and sex and love so badly that it physically hurts. But I truly believe that the only way you can find out that there’s something better out there is to first believe there’s something better out there. What other choice is there?"

"If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?"

"Some Semblance of Such "To lose one's identity to a Doppelgänger may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose multiple identities speaks of Nabakov."

"A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool."

"In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe."