Random Inspirational Quotes

"I watched the leaves change colors, and I thought, “People do that too. Their hair changes color as they age.” I remember that as my grandpa got older, his hair went from green to yellow to red, like a traffic light, only with slightly less honking."

"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't."

"If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed."

"He will not succeed in this,"Taran said. "Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope.""I agree absolutely,"Fflewddur answered. "Your general idea is excellent; it's only the details that are lacking..."

"No-brainers [10w] No-brainers are challenging enough for people with no fucking brains."

"The mind is the mine of man, wherein he digs out good or evil."

"What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are stillswollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms a fuzzy halo around her face.“Oh, you know,” I say. “Sun shining. Birds chirping.”She raises an eyebrow at me, as if reminding me that we are in an undergroundtunnel."

"I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity."

"A FEATHER.A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive."

"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."

"When I turn back to Jase, he’s again beaming at me. “You’re nice.” He sounds pleased, as if he hadn’t expected this aspect of my personality."

"I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper."

"Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us."

"A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it."

"You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance."

"Dangerous Food [10w] The world's most fattening foods are the ones you swallow."

"My candle burns at both ends;It will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—It gives a lovely light!"

"Now your boat comes in every day with Cosmic Ordering."

"For you, a thousand times over"

"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."