Random Inspirational Quotes

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

"The children now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise."

"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent."

"Each life involves an essential errand; not simply the task of survival, but a life-mission embedded in the soul from the beginning."

"You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."

"I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning."

"Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce."

"Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it."

"One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."

"I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."

"When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way. Her feet were little wings. And her beautiful head was a compass."

"How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em."

"There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others."

"Premature Evacuation [10w] I've stopped all my relationships short,not unlike this poem."

"Find what you love and let it kill you."

"People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory."

"You + Mesaw this...AMERICAThank you for finding America with me"

"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

"And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything."

"Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new."