Random Inspirational Quotes

"Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters."

"It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths."

"A human being - what is a human being? Everything and nothing. Through the power of thought it can mirror everything it experiences. Through memory and knowledge it becomes a microcosm, carrying the world within itself. A mirror of things, a mirror of facts. Each human being becomes a little universe within the universe!"

"Judgment is a negative frequency."

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

"For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."

"I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love."

"I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there."

"Why sadness was created?So we could rest from laughing."

"We are drowning in information but starving for knowledge and wisdom. Education ought to teach us not only how to make a living but also how to live."

"[E]very man ought to say to himself, "Am I really the kind of man who has the right to act in such a way that humanity might guide itself by my actions?"

"…God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it."

"I gave her a hundred dollar bill. She said, “Thanks, how can I repay you?” I replied, “Two fifties would be good, but three fifties would be better."

"When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends."

"Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."

"People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other."

"I am the broth of love. Make soup to me."

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."

"Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear -- and doubt."

"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."