Random Inspirational Quotes

"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

"When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right"we whisper, "I'm here, I love you."and we lie: "I'll never leave you."For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad."

"Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it."

"I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line."

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had."

"One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!"

"And starward drifts the stricken world,Lone in unalterable gloomDead, with a universe for tomb,Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)"

"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy"

"I am the coffee, and God is The Barista. Through me, he may awaken your soul. But the coffee knows not what flows through the mind of The Barista."

"The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second."

"Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work"itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work,"whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men,"as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction"

"Consciousness is a transformational dynamic force which transforms us by changing our imaginations and perceptions."

"Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print."

"Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite."

"When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose."

"Good vs. Great [10w] To be good twice is a true mark of greatness."

"We live by faith and not by sight."

"Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."

"There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead."