Random Inspirational Quotes

"I have lightning and wind powers,"Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people into giving her BMWs. You're no more a freak than we are. And, hey, maybe you can fly, too. Like jump off a building and yell 'Flame on!'"Leo snorted. "If I did that, you would see a flaming kid falling to his death, and I would be yelling something a little stronger than 'Flame on!"

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"For every thing that lives is Holy."

"I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living."

"Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge."

"I like men who have goals, something that they are passionate about and work hard to achieve. A good sense of humor is important too. And I like tall guys!"

"There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward."

"Inspirational leaders need to have a winning mentality in order to inspire respect. It is hard to trust in the leadership of someone who is half-hearted about their purpose, or only sporadic in focus or enthusiasm."

"Anna,"he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?""No."Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant."

"To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human."

"But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is."

"Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility."

"You can observe a lot just by watching."

"Start telling the truth now and never stop. Begin by telling the truth to yourself about yourself. Then tell the truth to yourself about someone else. Then tell the truth about yourself to another. Then tell the truth about another to that other. Finally, tell the truth to everyone about everything. These are the 5 levels of truth telling. This is the five-fold path to freedom."

"I'm trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief... I'm not in the business of offending people. I find the books upholding certain values that I think are important, such as life is immensely valuable and this world is an extraordinarily beautiful place. We should do what we can to increase the amount of wisdom in the world.[Washington Post interview, 19 February 2001]"

"If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right."

"Without causality in the world, there is no point in educating people, or making any moral or political appeal."

"The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?"

"We are mosaics - pieces of light, love, history, stars -- glued together with magic and music and words."

"A woman I had sex with is carrying my child, because God has made it so that my hands are full. They’re full of hope for the future."