Random Inspirational Quotes

"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them."

"Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair.[Songs of Longing]"

"I’ve never been in a yesterday quite like today. Seems like the perfect time to be in love."

"You always draw inspiration from your family or your parents if they've proven to be inspirational. My mother is someone who's always been inspirational to me."

"And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying."

"With a truly tragic delusion,” Carl Jung noted, “these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could see. It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing."

"We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."

"I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension."

"If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason."

"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."

"Patience is a virtue not a vice."

"Poetry happens when there is nothing to say but you have a volcano hidden inside you waiting to erupt."

"Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?"

"In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place."

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"For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why."

"There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves."

"Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated."

"Poetry and Ostrich Feathers A poet should leave his poem covered with a faint film of fairy dust,inviting the reader to bring his faint heartand an ostrich feather duster to the reading."

"I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave."