Random Inspirational Quotes

"Finnick?"I say, "Maybe some pants?"He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off his hospital gown leaving him in just his underwear. "Why? Do you find this"-- he strikes a ridiculously provocative pose -- "distracting?"I laugh. Boggs looks embarrassed and Finnick looks more like the guy I met at the Quarter Quell"

"It’s easier to hide your smoking habit on a foggy day. Let that be a lesson for you and your secret lover."

"I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not."

"I learned you pay for your happiness. That's why I don't expect to be happy all the time. I'd rather be surprised by one moment every so often to remind me that joy is possible, even if I have to pay for it later."

"For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."

"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor."

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."

"Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there's life there's hope is a connviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed"as some amiable theorists would have us believe."

"Think it. Write it. Sell it."

"John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]"

"I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor."

"Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy"

"Death Has Bad Timing Death has bad timingbecause rigor mortis sets into your penisjust when you don't fucking need it."

"I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain."

"I can't make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality. I just have to hold them on the one hand and on the other, just like that."

"In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down."

"If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying?"

"Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice."

"Frivolous Gossip and Poetry It's just so much frivolous gossip to dwell upon the moral merits of a poet;what should only concern the reader is the merit of his words.Leave moral judgments to the preachers and aesthetic judgments to the critical readers."

"You could rattle the stars,"she whispered. "You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most."