Random Inspirational Quotes

"Then she was kissing him as she had never kissed him before...and it was blissful oblivion, better than firewhisky; she was the only real thing in the world."

"He who does not see the light in others does not see the light in himself."

"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost."

"She knew then that white was more than a color: It was a cold, pale shade of understanding that seems to take all of your hope away."

"Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"

"The love of what you do, combined with your belief in what you do, will not determine your success. It will determine how hard you will work and how dedicated you will be to achieving it. Success just shows up from there."

"Her love was like cigarette smoke stirred into coffee. I drank it so fast it made me cough, but she’s not offering a refill at any price."

"Even this late it happens:the coming of love, the coming of light."

"It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men."

"The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?"

"She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it."

"You lose yourself, Erica, because with the right person, who you become together is something so much greater, more than you could even realize right now."

"There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself."

"For a woman to deny the necessity of true love in her life would be to deny herself, and her creator."

"In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?"

"Have you thought of an ending?""Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant.""Oh, that won't do! Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?""It will do well, if it ever came to that.""Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder."

"The world was hers for the reading."

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

"I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all."

"Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base..."