Random Inspirational Quotes

"Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?"

"The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved."

"The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages."

"There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality."

"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a huge research staff to study the problem."

"I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers."

"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."

"A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep."

"Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies."

"If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones."

"My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years."

"You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark."

"Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart."

"A book is as private and consensual as sex."

"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."

"I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves."

"It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back."

"Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces."

"He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death."

"Yams vs. Sweet Potatoes vs. Cassava vs. Popeye [10w] "I am that I am that I am a yam."