Random Inspirational Quotes

"My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached."

"The ability to retain a child's view of the world with at the same time a mature understanding of what it means to retain it, is extremely rare - and a person who has these qualities is likely to be able to contribute something really important to our thinking."

"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."

"Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it..."

"The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text."

"Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!"

"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods."

"Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying."

"Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God."

"Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse."

"Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and REAL, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine."

"For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering"

"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us."

"He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?"as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather, "With what, in this modern democracy, will you meet the demands of your soul?"

"Humble Wishes [10w] "God, all I simply ask is that I become perfect."

"I melted into the dream as if I had always been there. I knew where I had come from; I knew where I was going."

"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."

"Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?"

"Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus."

"Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking."