Random Inspirational Quotes

"For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted."

"Everyone is in such a hurry. People haven’t found meaning in their lives, so they’re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, it’s hard to slow yourself down."

"Predestination [10w] 'Twas predestined that I'd call predestination a crock of shit."

"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"

"Yo soy carne muerta. Translation: I am dead meat."

"To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself."

"There is no true reality. It is just an interplay of your consciousness, awareness, thoughts, and actions."

"In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone."

"It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it."

"The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing."

"My advice to aspiring writers is to read more, write more, and network more. More, more, and more. Then, after you've done all that, do it some more."

"In acting, there's a type of courage you're recognized for all the time. You lose 100 pounds and play a guy with AIDS, and you get rewarded. But, in life, doing what is courageous is quiet, and no one knows about it. Courage is someone making sacrifices for their family or making selfless decisions for what they hope or feel."

"Marriage [10w] The only thing better than forgiveness in marriage is forgetfulness."

"Autumn DuskI saw above a sea of hillsA solitary planet shine,And there was no one, near or far,to keep the world from being mine."

"When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks."

"If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything."

"I wish all those who've found God, would tell the rest of us where he's been hiding."

"All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!("The Jelly-Fish")"

"Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself."

"Look for God, suggests my Guru. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water."