Random Inspirational Quotes

"To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourself."

"Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the Universe together into one garment for us."

"She moves through my memory the way the gentle river waves turn the setting sun's rays into a nostalgic light show."

"A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art."

"Rebellious Fish [10w] Sometimes swimming against the current turns you into glazed salmon."

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."

"Can Power speak the truth to love? These men certainly blurted it out. And what did we learn from them? That power is blind, and love at first sight is a fickle judge of those who grasp too desperately."

"Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace"

"I would pour you a glass of wine, but wouldn’t it be more romantic if you sipped it out of my armpit?"

"There is a lot that horses and art share in common. I have found that most horse people are art lovers, and vice versa."

"From today onwards, I am going to strive for the greatest purity of soul, that the rays of God's grace may be reflected in all their brilliance."

"When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it."

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

"With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again."

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

"Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!"

"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."

"You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too."

"One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been."

"We evaluate, measure, and describe this world from our own point of view, but how does a tree see the world?"