Random Inspirational Quotes

"For someone who is supposed to be a knight in shining armor, you're acting like an ass in aluminum foil."

"O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars."

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government"

"Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were."

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

"She turned to look at him, and he was already looking at her. “I’m going to miss you when I wake up,” she whispered, because she realized that she must have fallen asleep under the sun. Arin was too real for her imagination. He was a dream.“Don’t wake up,” he said."

"May the odds be ever in your favor!"

"Poetry as Conspiracy [10w] A poem is unspoken conspiracy between the reader and poet."

"Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him."

"Four years of football are calculated to breed in the average man more of the ingredients of success in life than almost any academic course he takes."

"Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!"

"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."

"The most attractive force is a smile."

"Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside."

"To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid."

"Who, Me? We marry nearly the same person over and over again,hoping next time they'll get it right."

"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now..."

"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."

"Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it."