Random Inspirational Quotes

"I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of experiences...Lady Zhejiang here we must part,For the next province awaits my embrace.Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East,Where do you go?"

"Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred."

"A window—it’s more entertaining than TV. Just ask a cat looking out, or a man looking in on a life he desires."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

"Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind."

"When the mind stops searching, when it stops wanting refuge, when it no longer goes in search of security, when it no longer craves more books and information, when it ignores even the memory of desire, only then will Love arrive within."

"I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him."

"Let’s get romantic and head to bed and make meatloaf all night long. I’ll wear my Ben Bernanke beard, because it fits me like a fur coat."

"When in Doubt [10w] If your relationship becomes stagnant,set fire to her dress."

"That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg."

"Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead."

"Why did adults have to be so thick? They always say “tell the truth,” and when you do, they don’t believe you. What’s the point?"

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship."

"The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp."

"I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this."

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats."

"I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world."

"For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended,is a flame that burns to its own destruction."

"After spending 460 days as a hostage, I did emerge a fundamentally changed person. But I think, like everyone does as they grow older and probably wiser, I can look back at my earlier life - my history, my mistakes, the joy I felt as a young woman traveling the world - with some objectivity and even some humor."

"Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing."