Random Inspirational Quotes

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."

"Life is a journey, Frannie darling,"Feagan had once told me. "Choose well those with whom you travel."As always, I've followed Feagan's counsel."

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."

"Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)"

"Silence is argument carried out by other means."

"I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing."

"One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine."

"I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty."

"I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are."

"Knocking on a door is so violent. Instead, try talking to the door to get it to open up to you. I should write a self-help book for door-to-door salesmen."

"Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper."

"The text you write must prove to me that it desires me. This proof exists: it is writing. Writing is: the science of the various blisses of language, its Kama Sutra (this science has but one treatise: writing itself)."

"Poets and Competitiveness [10w] "I'm the only poet I need to be better than."

"There's only one thing that can heal the heart... Only one... It's love, Gaara."

"Everything is clearer when you're in love."

"By justifying our harmful negative habits, we live in delusion. We are lying to ourselves. And worse yet, we waste the precious opportunity of living our truth."

"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

"Pursue your dreams. You will be amazed about what you can achieve."

"If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues."

"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative."