Random Inspirational Quotes

"إن اللغة ناقل غير كفء، وإن الناس حين يسمعون كلامًا يفهمونه في ضوء ما لديهم من خلفيات معرفية، بل إن كثيرًا منهم يقرؤون تلك الخلفيات ويبلورونها عوضًا عن الاشتغال بفهم ما سمعوه."

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

"I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me."

"I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary."

"I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it."

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the Gate."

"It takes guts to love with gusto. Most people love as if they wish they were invisible, and then they wonder why their affections go unnoticed."

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

"To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again."

"I haven't mastered the art of sitting and smiling."

"A confident woman wears a smile and has this air of comfortability and pleasantness about her."

"It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things."

"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"

"When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."

"The temptation of the age is to look good without being good."

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."

"I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life."

"I was good and bad, but never wicked."

"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."