Random Inspirational Quotes

"Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are."

"Are we being good ancestors?"

"I am a fisherman among farmers, and as a farmer what I grow is tired of waiting for her to love me."

"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing."

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."

"To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love."

"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

"It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary."

"... a good idea always attracts other good ideas."

"To die,so young to die.No, no, not I,I love the warm sunny skies,light, song, shining eyes,I want no war, no battle cry,No, no, not I."

"Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity."

"When love is not madness, it is not love."

"So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with. That's about all that can be said for plots, which anyway are just one thing after another, a what and a what and a what."

"Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live."

"Charity [10w] Contentment over your life is the best aphrodisiac for charity."

"No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life."

"Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained."

"Yesterday is but a dream,Tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope."

"The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop."

"You are the trip I did not take, you are the pearls I could not buy,you are my blue Italian lake, you are my piece of foreign sky.You are my Honolulu moon, you are the book I did not write,you are my heart's unuttered tune, you are a candle in my night.You are the flower beneath the snow, in my dark sky a bit of blue,answering disappointment's blow with "I am happy! I have you!"