Random Inspirational Quotes

"My grandfather says that's what books are for,"Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch."

"Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing."

"When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not."

"His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore."

"Sweets to the sweet."

"You never know when the truth will come home. You can’t choose the time. The time chooses you."

"War [10w] Fight wars not to win, but so our enemies don't."

"I think the thrust of any child is to try to fit in and be part of it. And I can't tell you how many times my humor, you know, what I thought was humor ended up making me the outsider. Like I'd be, I go, 'It's a joke.' And they'd go, 'Well, what was funny?' And they just thought I was insane."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."

"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather."

"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own."

"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception."

"To achieve extraordinary dreams you sometimes have to go through extraordinary nightmares."

"Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back."

"My heart can hold all the love you give me. If you need to quantify it to properly price it for sale, it would be one gallon."

"The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast."

"Every thing—every atom is conscious. To find it we have to open our eyes and see with a higher consciousness."

"Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning."