Inspirational Quotes

We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like ...

I don't need time, I need a deadline.

If you've ever been hungry, you can never be full.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of the w...

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvatio...

People will kill you over time. And how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be rea...

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage agains...

Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm,Without looking for the traces I may have left;A cu...

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you c...

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, t...

deeds cannot dream what dreams can do

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the gu...

The past has no power over the present moment.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stilln...

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

You realize your true identity as consciousness itself, rather than what consciousness has identifie...

Man made God in his own image...

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

A woman in her thirties came to see me. As she greeted me, I could sense the pain behind her polite ...

With stillness comes the benediction of Peace.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the mag...

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.

Be a true Heart, not a follower.

Just be you. That's the best advice I can give. There are seven billion people in this world and the...

I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And...

If he can't sleep, how will he ever dream?

The best things in life make you sweaty.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think ...

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessne...

To conceive the horror of my sensations is, I presume, utterly impossible; yet a curiosity to penetr...

I have studied many timesThe marble which was chiseled for me—A boat with a furled sail at rest in a...

The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil whi...

The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches

You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to ensla...

...But...to sing,to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free,with a voice that stirs and an ey...

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Music, my rampart and my only one.

My heart is warm with the friends I make,And better friends I'll not be knowing,Yet there isn't a tr...

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, t...

...women, brave as stars at dawn

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe ...

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasional...

Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else ...

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely...

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be be...

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which y...

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, t...

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, exci...

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indif...

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that plac...

If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

Our Euripides the human,With his droppings of warm tears,and his touchings of things common Till the...

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution;...

God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness ...

Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power,...

Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!

I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-...

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

So tonight I reach for my journal again. This is the first time I’ve done this since I came to Italy...

If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardia...

We are all walking repositories of hidden treasures.

We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners.

I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I...

I am openly prideful, secretly judgemental, and cowardly in conflict.

So be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your...

It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and re...

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian id...

My friend Bob, who is both a student of Yoga and a neuroscientist, told me that he was always agitat...

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the s...

One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

One instant, you're just a regular Joe, schlepping through your mundane life, and then suddenly - wh...

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not alwa...

Your tears are my prayers.

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind the...

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

It's a little weird that I'm getting an award for being nice and generous and kind... which is what ...

You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me be...

Don't hold onto things, it will only bring you pain.