Random Inspirational Quotes

"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."

"I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy."

"Love life. Live your life with joy so you may fill the world with joy. Let no one leave your presence without feeling the joy of life."

"Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion."

"When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side."

"Grateful [10w] + [10w] If you can't think of anything you should be grateful for,think that you can think and be grateful for that."

"We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need."

"A good mother remembers to serve fruit at breakfast, is always cheerful and never yells, manages not to project her own neuroses and inadequacies onto her children, is an active and beloved community volunteer. She remembers to make play dates, her children's clothes fit, she does art projects with them and enjoys all their games."

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

"Puns are the highest form of literature."

"We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives."

"Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed."

"How could anyone love Him? What did you just tell me yourself about the world? Don't you see, everybody hates God now. It's not that God is dead in the twentieth century. It's that everybody hates Him! At least I think so."

"One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should be fair, or that someday it will be. It's not and it won't. When we make this mistake we tend to spend a lot of time wallowing and/or complaining about what's wrong with life. "It's not fair,"we complain, not realizing that, perhaps, it was never intended to be."

"If you wish to strengthen your confidence in God still more, often recall the loving way in which He has acted toward you, and how mercifully He has tried to bring you out of your sinful life, to break your attachment to the things of earth and draw you to His love."

"Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone."

"It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of."

"I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story."

"There's difference between being dead and dying. We're all dying. Some of us die for ninety years, and some of us die for nineteen. But each morning everyone on this planet wakes up one day closer to their death. Everyone. So living and dying are actually different words for the same thing, if you think about it."