Random Inspirational Quotes

"Cat, hmmm? From where I sit you look more like a Kitten."My head jerked around and I shot him an annoyed look. Oh, I was going to enjoy this, all right. "It's Cat,"I repeated firmly. "Cat Raven.""Whatever you say, Kitten Tweedy."

"I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave."

"For a game, you don’t need a teacher."

"I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life--I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life--day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is that I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it."

"The smile is the most beautiful ornament that you can wear."

"Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise."

"I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness."

"Self-Help I asked the bookseller,'Do you have any self-help books for addiction?'He said,'If I tell you, I'd be enabling you."

"My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water."

"Words are the clothes thoughts wear."

"The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen."

"What Might Have Been {Couplet} Dwell not upon what might have been,Within such idle spin, you can never win."

"Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry."

"Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet."

"How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves."

"Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured."

"If you're just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television's electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea."

"The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity."

"Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories."

"Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage."