Random Inspirational Quotes

"We all ought to understand we're on our own. Believing in Santa Claus doesn't do kids any harm for a few years but it isn't smart for them to continue waiting all their lives for him to come down the chimney with something wonderful. Santa Claus and God are cousins."

"There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about."

"I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so far as the mind was affected by them."

"Yes, boys are a little like shoes. Why? Well...They can be useful. But mainly...They are nice to look at. Getting the right one can be a lovely accessory to an outfit. There are times when you couldn't do without them. And there are times when you'd rather do without them. Get the wrong ones and they can hurt. There are many types and often the ones that look the nicest are completely unpractical."

"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought."

"Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don’t ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose."

"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

"You can use your mouth to speak the words I love you, or you can use your mouth to kiss me and transport love from your mind to my heart."

"You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul."

"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest."

"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

"Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave."

"There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."

"A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally."

"Truth is not as pompous and romantic as myth ... but it has the immeasurable value of being the Truth."

"Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith."

"What's meant to be will always find a way"

"We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one"

"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."

"The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life."