Random Inspirational Quotes

"Is there a drug that will illuminate the mind and eliminate all the drugs the modern medical system will try to convince you that you need to take?"

"There is no tomorrow and there was no yesterday; if you truly want to accomplish your goals you must engulf yourself in today."

"The word long is short, and so is the word short, but why is the word love as long as long? Shouldn’t it be longer?"

"We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness insidethat holds whatever we want.We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner spacethat makes it livable.We work with being, but non-being is what we use."

"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."

"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings."

"Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love which underwent its worst confict there. Yes, the Cross is the tree that sweetens the waters. 'Love never faileth."

"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit."

"If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today."

"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

"You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens."

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from oneend to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terroristattacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out ofthe Pledge of Allegiance?"

"I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely, or to let my guard down, so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him."

"The deep observation of nature can transform your consciousness into a higher consciousness that will awaken your true being."

"No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise."

"It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you."

"It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.[Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005]"

"All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects."

"Listen to the Wisdom of Shakespeare 'To thine own self be true and fuck'em till they're back and blue."