Inspirational Quotes - Page 551

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

Sarah Vowell

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

George Carlin

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

Pablo Picasso

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Leo Tolstoy

I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.

John Green

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Gautama Buddha

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Norman Vincent Peale

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Maya Angelou

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Ray Bradbury

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

John Anster

If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.” Because that way, she knows that no matter what happens, at least she can always find her way to me. And I’m going to paint the solar system on the back of her hands so that she has to learn the entire universe before she can say “Oh, I know that like the back of my hand.”She’s gonna learn that this life will hit you, hard, in the face, wait for you to get back up so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. There is hurt, here, that cannot be fixed by band-aids or poetry, so the first time she realizes that Wonder-woman isn’t coming, I’ll make sure she knows she doesn’t have to wear the cape all by herself. Because no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.And “Baby,” I’ll tell her “don’t keep your nose up in the air like that, I know that trick, you’re just smelling for smoke so you can follow the trail back to a burning house so you can find the boy who lost everything in the fire to see if you can save him. Or else, find the boy who lit the fire in the first place to see if you can change him.”But I know that she will anyway, so instead I’ll always keep an extra supply of chocolate and rain boats nearby, ‘cause there is no heartbreak that chocolate can’t fix. Okay, there’s a few heartbreaks chocolate can’t fix. But that’s what the rain boots are for, because rain will wash away everything if you let it.I want her to see the world through the underside of a glass bottom boat, to look through a magnifying glass at the galaxies that exist on the pin point of a human mind. Because that’s how my mom taught me. That there’ll be days like this, “There’ll be days like this my momma said” when you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises. When you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you wanna save are the ones standing on your cape. When your boots will fill with rain and you’ll be up to your knees in disappointment and those are the very days you have all the more reason to say “thank you,” ‘cause there is nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it’s sent away.You will put the “wind” in win some lose some, you will put the “star” in starting over and over, and no matter how many land mines erupt in a minute be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called life.And yes, on a scale from one to over-trusting I am pretty damn naive but I want her to know that this world is made out of sugar. It can crumble so easily but don’t be afraid to stick your tongue out and taste it.“Baby,” I’ll tell her “remember your mama is a worrier but your papa is a warrior and you are the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more.”Remember that good things come in threes and so do bad things and always apologize when you’ve done something wrong but don’t you ever apologize for the way your eyes refuse to stop shining.Your voice is small but don’t ever stop singing and when they finally hand you heartbreak, slip hatred and war under your doorstep and hand you hand-outs on street corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.

Sarah Kay

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.

Rebecca Walker

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Walt Whitman

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

C. JoyBell C.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

Nora Roberts

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

Viktor E. Frankl

If you want to be happy, be.

Leo Tolstoy

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

Tami Hoag

In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?

Jack Kornfield

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

Robert Louis Stevenson

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Mark Twain

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Abraham Lincoln

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Peter S Beagle

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Kurt Cobain

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.

Randy Pausch

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Molière

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

Rick Riordan

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Louis L'Amour

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

C. JoyBell C.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

Anne Frank

So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Mitch Albom

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Anaïs Nin

Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.

Harper Lee

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

George Washington Burnap

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Margaret Atwood

Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.

Patricia Cornwell

The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!

Edward J. Stieglitz

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Try a little harder to be a little better.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

P.C. Cast

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

Margaret Walker

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

George Carlin

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

Dalai Lama XIV

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.

Neil Gaiman

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.

C. JoyBell C.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

Adrienne Rich

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Rick Riordan

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Sarah Dessen

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

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