Random Inspirational Quotes

"The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?"

"Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is."

"All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance."

"We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it."

"Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional."

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is."

"Enmity Enmity is the soul of shit."

"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination"

"The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr."

"November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude."

"Stranger, pause and look;From the dust of agesLift this little book,Turn the tattered pages,Read me, do not let me die!Search the fading letters findingSteadfast in the broken bindingAll that once was I!"

"Just living is not enough,"said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

"If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is."

"I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—I tried to match it—Seam by Seam—But could not make it fit."

"Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong."

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics."

"Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know,"Haymitch says."

"Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one."

"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand."