Random Inspirational Quotes

"No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)"

"Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting."

"The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes."

"In and Out [10w] Our infant blanket in the externalization of our mother's womb.ღ ♛ ღ ♛ ღ ♛ ღ ♛ ღ Intruth, we should be married under,sling our newborn babiesinand after deathbe shrouded in the same infant blanketwe were taken home from the hospital in."

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

"When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

"Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue."

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?"she asked him, indulging herself and letting her head rest on his shoulder. God, he felt good. Her man. Where her head was meant to lie, right there, on him. "What's the difference?""A Northern one starts 'once upon a time,' while a Southern one starts 'y'all ain't going to believe this shit."

"To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself.-Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)"

"The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised."

"Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs."

"Find an opportunity to serve and success will be yours."

"It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible."

"Nothing is easy. To change or to accept changes is difficult."

"A physical attraction is often desired above many things but you'll discover it to be short lived. Find yourself someone that gets under your skin, seduces the dusty corners of your heart, and provides you with a mental connection. That is when you'll know true intimacy."

"In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends."

"....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life."

"I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees."

"Too bad Americans can’t export Awesome, because I have boxes and boxes of the stuff just lying around in my attic."