Random Inspirational Quotes

"It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other."

"[novan]: bassists are very good with their fingers[novan]: and some of us sing backup vocals, so that means we're good with our mouths too...(~ IM chat with Novan Chang, 18, bassist)"

"So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis"

"الله عادل، لكن الحياة غير عادلة. الحياة ليست مكانًا للعدل، بل لاختبار حسّنا تجاهه"

"To enlighten your life, see beauty."

"Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot."

"Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't."

"Stampede [10w] Her stampede of wild emotions broke down everything once stable."

"The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school."

"Tangled [10w] Love becomes a tangle of roots submerged in common soil."

"I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?"

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."

"Mathematicians finally developed a financial model to accurately compare apples and oranges. Any two kinds of fruit can be compared, although guavas still cause minor rounding errors."

"I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!"

"Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time."

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

"The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to."

"We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are."

"but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment."

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."