Random Inspirational Quotes

"Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits."

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him."

"With every moment and every heartbeat, we change even though we still fear change."

"You will be fine,' the fortune teller says. 'There may be decisions to make and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that."

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."

"My coffee cup is empty. Why don't you pour your love in and wake up my soul?"

"Democracy, Really [10w] A democracy is free to replace one tyranny with another."

"They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for awhile, then closesWithin a dream."

"How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?"

"Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share."

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

"Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm."

"There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't."

"I want a moon canoe, because have you ever tried paddling through dirt? Love is a journey, and I try to travel as efficiently as I can."

"Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness."

"Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain."

"The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art."

"I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it."

"I deal in the ideal idea. Buy, sell, or trade, I am offering the best prices on Love."

"Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience."