Inspirational Quotes - Page 524

Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.

Joyce Carol Oates

No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.

Staness Jonekos

As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition and acquiescence, I shuttle between worrying whether I matter at all and whether anything else matters but me.

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

Joseph Smith Jr.

You would have made a fine warrior, you know that?"I am one. Death is my enemy."Yeah, it is, isn't it." God, it made such sense that he'd bonded with her. She was a fighter… like him. "Your scalpel's your dagger."Yup.

J.R. Ward

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Louisa May Alcott

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Friedrich Nietzsche

No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.

Jessica Spotswood

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

As you walk through forestsor the meadows of your mind,Stop and talk to those you fearGood friendships you may find

Stephen Cosgrove

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!

Michael Crichton

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Charles M. Schulz

I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I’ll open my eyes and look back at them, and they’ll know hat I survived.

Brandon Sanderson

A sense of calm came over me. More and more often I found myself thinking, "This is where I belong. This is what I came into this world to do.

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

Margaret Mitchell

It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

The truth was this: Love is a decision.

Karen Kingsbury

In order to know who you are you need to know God is.

Annette Hoggs-Jackson

I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements can make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes the only response to pain.Perhaps most important, I learned that everyone has a story – of dreams and nightmares, hope and heartache, love and loss, courage and fear, sacrifice and selfishness. All my life I’ve been interested in other people’s stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them. When I grew up into politics, I always felt the main point of my work was to people a chance to have better stories. - Page 15, Paragraph 5, ‘My Life’ by Bill Clinton. –Hard cover version-

There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.

Euripides

No other success can compensate for failure in the home.

J. E. McCulloch

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

Jennifer Hudson Taylor

take what you can from your dreamsMake them real as anythingIt takes the work out of the courage

Dave Matthews Band

For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

Anonymous

Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.

Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that captures our attention, what feeds that deep indescribable need of our souls to experience the richness of the world He made. And then, leaning over us, He whispers, "Let's go do that together.

Bob Goff

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

Ellen DeGeneres

The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.

What is she to you anyway?""Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-the threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.

Love me or hate me, i swear it won't make or break me.

Lil Wayne

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Lou Holtz

follow your heart! (sppotedleafs motto)

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

Gregory Maguire

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.

There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.

Ernest Hemingway

Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

Finnick Odair Mockingjay

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

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

The difference between false memories and true ones is thesame as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look themost real, the most brilliant.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

Augustine of Hippo

To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.

Real love never fails.

Karen Kingsbury

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