Inspirational Quotes

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

To look deep into your child's eyes and see in him both yourself and something utterly strange, and ...

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more ...

If Elirena was a hero, if what she did is heroism, then that's just too bad. Let them call me a trai...

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre...

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

Not everyone is born to fulfill an heroic role. The only realistic ambition is to live in the presen...

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many o...

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity...

XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt...

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and se...

I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take y...

Some aching beauty comes with huge loss, although maybe not right away, when it would be helpful. Li...

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether ...

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only ...

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us...

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritter...

Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in s...

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazin...

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There w...

it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, th...

Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wis...

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...

Sadness, it was such an arresting emotion. You could almost convince yourself of the rhyme and reaso...

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requ...

Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you lear...

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who...

Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you.

Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secr...

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this...

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will fin...

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal h...

You must take the world as you find it, with a struggle to be something more honest than those aroun...

And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think th...

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to...

If only you would go to the university," he said. "Only enlightened and holy people are interesting,...

Que les poètes morts laissent la place aux autres. Et nous pourrions tout de même voir que c'est not...

He who does not know how to believe, should not know.

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is mad...

Each man is the architect of his own fortune.

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthe...

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings there’s too much corruption in the world

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and inte...

The end toward which all human acts are directed is happiness.

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, ...

What is the point of being on this Earth if you are going to be like everyone else?

To a great mind, nothing is little.

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtu...

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be...

I follow my own methods, and tell as much or as little as I choose. That is the advantage of being u...

It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flower...

We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting...

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

There is an underlying unity in all things

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to t...

The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an ...

Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how m...

When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache ...

But what was there to say?Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted toget...

. . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves...

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less an...

Each of us is called upon to take a stand. So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each ...

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to es...

DeLois lived up the block on 142nd Street and never had her hair done, and all the neighbourhood wom...

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because i...

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

And...I think that's what life is all about, actually,about children and flowers.

It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment...

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first i...

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also ...

My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.

Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of al...

Magic," her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can m...

A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as ...

You're not aloneTogether we standI'll be by your side, you know I'll take your handWhen it gets cold...