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2fc4d1f Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness. light inspirational-quotes darkness life-lessons wisdom inspirational mama-chia Dan Millman
ca3a332 Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to. life inspirational Nicholas Sparks
6add448 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. inspirational Anonymous
09f5ee1 You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naive. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this. inspirational mess Max Lucado
76d668b Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food. music inspirational singing church Anne Lamott
65139ea "Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear." inspirational Emily Brontë
b5acfeb As for my brothers,' Zeus said, 'we are thankful -' he cleared his throat, like the words were hard to get out - 'erm, thankful for the aid of Hades.' The Lord of the Dead nodded. He had a smug look on his face, but I figure he'd earned the right. He patted his son Nico on the shoulders, and Nico looked happier than I'd ever seen him. inspirational pay-back humor-inspirational zeus nico-di-angelo Rick Riordan
5f60366 Remember death. Even for those who wield great power, life is brief. There is only one way to triumph over death, and that is by making our lives masterpieces. We must seize every opportunity to show kindness and to love fully. life-quotes death inspirational robert-langdon origin Dan Brown
00d607d Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will. inspirational cerulean-sins Laurell K. Hamilton
e433a3b Through my blue fingers, pink grains are falling, haphazard, random, a disorganized stream of silicone that seems pregnant with the possibility of every conceivable shape... But this is illusion. Things have their shape in time, not space alone. Some marble blocks have statues within them, embedded in their future. inspirational Alan Moore
5a91447 The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory. travel inspirational wicked Gregory Maguire
8aa3e2a Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it. inspirational Nicholas Sparks
6d6c5cb "I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart." courage friendship inspirational J.R.R. Tolkien
7223a62 It is not enough to be happy, one must be content. inspirational Victor Hugo
f0a8ae4 There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. courage world kindness life love inspirational fortitude brave precious stewardship grace deception kind eyes Marilynne Robinson
df37201 Once you've decided that something's absolutely true, you've closed your mind on it, and a closed mind doesn't go anywhere. Question everything. That's what education's all about. inspirational David Eddings
bb40c1c Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it. writing inspirational creativity Steven Pressfield
bb7a82f a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner. love inspirational relatioships Elizabeth Gilbert
a18376a Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast. terry-pratchett inspirational night-watch life-philosophy Terry Pratchett
e00b13a If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence quote inspirational the-alchemist luck Paulo Coelho
598de0d Stay gold Ponyboy. Stay gold. --Johnny quoting Robert Frost inspirational S.E. Hinton
8582517 All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning reason life love inspirational paulo-coelho meanings understand sufferings Paulo Coelho
e20dfe6 Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing. writing philosophy inspirational Anne Rice
749ba6e "You made them hate me." Said Ender "So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kissing their little backsides so they'll love you again? There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be." -Graff" hate love inspirational Orson Scott Card
1fe848c Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill. inspirational mockingbird scout landscape season summer Harper Lee
5e7de1b These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and opened legs. feminism inspirational Margaret Cho
cee620b Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed. inspirational Khaled Hosseini
41ee9a8 Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable. life inspirational hardship Lora Leigh
a74a7c1 Grow strong, my comrade ... that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more. inspirational wife Will Durant
6511683 "Are you born again?" he asked, as we taxied down the runway. He was rather prim and tense, maybe a little like David Eisenhower with a spastic colon. I did not know how to answer for a moment. "Yes," I said. "I am." life inspirational Anne LaMott
0364f52 A lot of the world seems to repeat itself inspirational reality-of-life Emma Donoghue
585e86f "Yes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly. I struck out a hand and said "Shake." Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said. "Shake!" I repeated angrily. "And if I don't?" she asked. "I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled. Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly. "Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night." inspirational Darren Shan
a7dca75 "Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)" inspirational Max Lucado
203f665 Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. reality happiness inspirational quotient Jodi Picoult
7878ef7 The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend and colour? Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language manycoloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose? words inspirational colour James Joyce
cde71b5 Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand. inspirational the-lost-symbol Dan Brown
d6f3568 But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. inspirational Sherrilyn Kenyon
2bb1ecf She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind? fairy-tales lovely sleep dreams inspirational inkheart sleeping dreaming Cornelia Funke
90c39ac Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there's always something waiting, and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living. fate living death life inspirational Truman Capote
a9617e8 "For there to be pain, there has to be kindness. For darkness to standout there has to be the sun. You can't have one without the other, and both have their uses. So even if you stumble and make mistakes, that's not useless. Think of it as fertilizer, sure it feels like crap, but it will help you grow!" ~Kyoko Honda" inspirational Natsuki Takaya
ef3913d God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something. prayer god inspirational Karen Kingsbury
edd10b5 It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for. love inspirational self-deprecating humility wooing T.H. White
82454b8 At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers? human-rights india equality women reality truth inspirational environmental-degradation false-gods narmada-valley dam government-corruption corporations nationalism economics government capitalism exploitation Arundhati Roy
a085206 It is of course perfectly natural to assume that everyone else is having a far more exciting time than you. Human beings, for instance, have a phrase that describes this phenomenon, 'The other man's grass is always greener.' The Shaltanac race of Broopkidren 13 had a similar phrase, but since their planet is somewhat eccentric, botanically speaking, the best they could manage was, 'The other Shaltanac's joopleberry shrub is always a more mauvy shade of pinky-russet.' And so the expression soon fell into disuse, and the Shaltanacs had little option but to become terribly happy and contented with their lot, much to the surprise of everyone else in the Galaxy who had not realized that the best way not to be unhappy is not to have a word for it. inspirational Douglas Adams
69f66b1 Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you. inspirational grieving stories George R.R. Martin
5710d48 Shit don't mean shit life inspirational Stephen King
4c4b1b0 But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. metaphor lovers love inspirational imagery suggestive Updike John
3473986 Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it? science humor inspirational Thomas Pynchon
87a632c He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. tolkien inspirational Peter S. Beagle
12e6b94 The Lord will provide. inspirational heartwarming Francine Rivers
f893629 "We're all broken," Mor said. "In our own ways - in places no one might see." inspirational feyre-archeron sjm mor acotar acowar truth-of-life Sarah J. Maas
ebb15fe ...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives. inspirational thoughtful Steve Martin
6e352d3 Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I leave this world? When can I learn what I have here neglected to learn? Or is it true that death will cut off and put an end to all care and all feeling? This is something to be inquired into. But no, this cannot be true. It is not for nothing, it is not meaningless that all over the world is displayed the high and towering authority of the Christian faith. Such great and wonderful things would never have been done for us by God, if the life of the soul were to end with the death of the body. Why then do I delay? Why do I not abandon my hopes of this world and devote myself entirely to the search for God and for the happy life? faith religion inspirational confessions christian Augustine of Hippo
2d968d5 I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to. religious inspirational Joyce Meyer
2ea254b There came a time in everyone's life when they realized that in spite of how hard they'd been running from themselves, everywhere they went, there they were: Addictions and compulsions were nothing but marching bands of distraction, masking truths that were unpleasant, but ultimately undeniable. inspirational J.R. Ward
3674b05 Love gives you eyes. christianity spirituality love philosophy inspirational jesus-shock theology eyes Peter Kreeft
9ee2202 She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity. inspirational anonymity isolation Alice Sebold
560974a I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet around the sun. The course of water over the earth is circular coming down from the sky and circulating through the world to spread life and then evaporating up again. I live in a circular teepee and build my fire in a circle. The life cycles of plants and animals are circular. I live outside where I can see this. The ancient people understood that our world is a circle, but we modern people have lost site of that. I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water doesn't flow, and where life stops. I don't want to live in a dead place. People say that I don't live in a real world, but it's modern Americans who live in a fake world, because they have stepped outside the natural circle of life. Do people live in circles today? No. They live in boxes. They wake up every morning in a box of their bedrooms because a box next to them started making beeping noises to tell them it was time to get up. They eat their breakfast out of a box and then they throw that box away into another box. Then they leave the box where they live and get into another box with wheels and drive to work, which is just another big box broken into little cubicle boxes where a bunch of people spend their days sitting and staring at the computer boxes in front of them. When the day is over, everyone gets into the box with wheels again and goes home to the house boxes and spends the evening staring at the television boxes for entertainment. They get their music from a box, they get their food from a box, they keep their clothing in a box, they live their lives in a box. Break out of the box! This not the way humanity lived for thousands of years. nature life inspirational Elizabeth Gilbert
4a47e00 "Do you know why Satan is so angry all the time? Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes." "So God uses wicked people as his tools?" "God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses." "So, in the long run, God always wins?" "Yes, in the short run though it can be uncomfortable." humorous sister-carlotta inspirational Orson Scott Card
8b90ba5 The power of good is shown not by triumphantly conquering evil, but by continuing to resist evil while facing certain defeat. inspirational Edith Hamilton
7448edf When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable). god life inspirational schedule will-of-god plans purpose Elisabeth Elliot
10ced50 We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours. jesus inspirational confession humility Max Lucado
24f7c2e A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don't you think? But Beethoven didn't let it get to him. Sure, he must have been a little depressed at first, but he didn't let misfortune get him down. It was like, Problem? What problem? He composed more than ever and came up with better music than anything he'd ever written. I really admire the guy. Like this Archduke Trio--he was nearly deaf when he wrote it, can you believe it? What I'm trying to say is, it must be tough on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on--your strengths. Like being able to talk with the stone. reading inspirational composer Haruki Murakami
bb2d4fb The gods made our bodies as well as our souls, is it not so? They give us voices, so we might worship them with song. They give us hands, so we might build them temples. And they give us desire, so we might mate and worship them in that way. sex inspirational George R.R. Martin
970b07f "Also, it was a bit hopeless," he said. "A bit defeatist." "If by defeatist you mean honest, then I agree." "I don't think defeatism is honest, " Dad answered. "I refuse to accept that." inspirational the-fault-in-our-stars John Green
e6693fe The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we're desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth. inspirational nurses Jodi Picoult
fae7222 "He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine." inspirational touching girls Rick Riordan
bb7d85c This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (NIV) god truth inspirational verse scripture Anonymous
0644ecd I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep. courage prayer world kindness jesus god life love inspirational fortitude praying brave prudence precious stewardship grace kind pray Marilynne Robinson
2c9d68f By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing. inspirational Stephen King
81455f6 For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently. inspiration inspirational-life life-and-living life-lessons inspirational meditation-experience mind-body-spirit mindfulness-practice quotes-i-love quotes-that-make-sense mind-power quotes-to-live-by quotes-to-define-my-life mindfulness life-and-death quotes-on-life mind-control Jon Kabat-Zinn
59464fb Don' you worry, Harry. You'll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you'll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it's hard. Yeh've been singled out, an' that's always hard. But yeh'll have a great time at Hogwarts -- I did -- still do, 'smatter of fact. inspirational J.K. Rowling
f0f28d2 No one should know his entire fate. It's too dangerous and too depressing. Just keep going, do your best, and hope it's good enough. That's all any of us can do. inspirational hero percy-jackson Rick Riordan
3c72f64 If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take? inspirational thought-provoking sad Jodi Picoult
bf3f042 The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit. prayer inspirational bible-study Stormie Omartian
7c5bd35 You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. relationships friendship inspirational J.K. Rowling
76f4f28 "When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen." women inspirational literary historical David McCullough
572f8e7 No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here, every day, for the rest of my life, is only my way of saying, 'Lord, regardless of what eternity holds for me, let me give something back to you. I know it doesn't even no scorecard. But let me make something of my life before I go.. and then, Lord, I'm at your mercy. inspirational Mitch Albom
fa90452 This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-fly-apart-disintegrate! The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your joy will seek and find others in the world who, by reading your story, will catch fire, too? writing inspirational explode Ray Bradbury
f613cc5 You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know writing inspirational Ernest Hemingway
d87cbb2 Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth. religious inspirational Joyce Meyer
b18b1e1 There are three parts to learning: information, knowledge and wisdom, A mere accumulation of information is not knowledge, and a treasure of knowledge is not in itself, wisdom. inspirational knowledge Rachel Caine
54fa1a9 There's no such thing as `one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good -- they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race. truth inspirational life-philosophy Mercedes Lackey
2eb39c7 I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. quote success inspirational the-alchemist Paulo Coelho
c7ec89a A new heart for a New Year, always! heart inspirational new-years Charles Dickens
16d1f58 I feel the fear, but I walk fast toward it. courage fear life inspirational i-am-the-messenger markus-zusak Markus Zusak
f6049d6 Wherever there is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me. inspirational shadows shadow shadow-series Anaïs Nin
c8ab6ea . . . [O]nce we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. political women inspirational social sexuality Audre Lorde
7d275e5 When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow. inspirational squire tamora-pierce keladry-of-mindelan Tamora Pierce
cd04187 This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner. family love inspirational Karen Kingsbury
6b45164 [Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world to give it to you, no matter the price, and the price is and always will be high... People say you don't find witchcraft; witchcraft finds you. But you've found it, even if at the time you didn't know what it was you were finding, and you grabbed it by its scrawny neck and made it work for you. inspirational meaningful Terry Pratchett
ea8cf19 But [Everett] and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do. inspirational into-the-wild Jon Krakauer
e4f920f I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell. life inspirational Ray Bradbury
3d7dd0f There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why. women inspirational Terry Tempest Williams
96f44de Thomas Wolfe warned in the title of America's great novel that 'You Can't Go Home Again.' I enjoyed the book but I never agreed with the title. I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe. Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors, are mysterious apparitions, who come, go, and do strange unfathomable things in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen. [...] We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do. inspirational Maya Angelou
df26148 In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. inspirational Martin Luther King Jr.
7e7504e If chance be the Father of all flesh, Disaster is his rainbow in the sky, And when you hear State of Emergency! Sniper Kills Ten! Troops on Rampage! Whites go Looting! Bomb Blasts School! It is but the sound of man worshiping his maker. religion philosophy inspirational Steve Turner
4322453 I knew that I lived in a country in which the aspirations of black people were limited, marked-off. Yet I felt that I had to go somewhere and do something to redeem my being alive. inspirational Richard Wright
896b19f One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people's lives simply by existing. humanity inspirational misattributed-plutarch J.K. Rowling
88cd9be The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. inspirational Franz Kafka
ae18418 Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful. inspirational Francesca Lia Block
ecdd2dc Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not. faith inspirational-quotes life wisdom inspirational leanring Dan Millman
c31e3eb "Zoe--" I said. "Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady." A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight." "Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again. Thalia lowered her head. Annabeth gulped down a sob, and her father put his hands on her shoulders. I watched as Artemis cupped her hand above Zoe's mouth and spoke a few words in Ancient Greek. A silvery wisp of smoke exhaled from Zoe's lips and was caught in the hand of the goddess. Zoe's body shimmered and disappeared. Artemis stood, said a kind of blessing, breathed into her cupped hand and released the silver dust to the sky. It flew up, sparkling, and vanished. For a moment I didn't see anything different. Then Annabeth gasped. Looking up in the sky, I saw that the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before--a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girl's figure--a girl with a bow, running across the sky. "Let the world honor you, my Huntress," Artemis said. "Live forever in the stars." sadness inspirational Rick Riordan The Titan's Curse
739534a Wake up! Wake up! Soon the person you believe you are will die - so now, wake up and be content with this knowledge: there is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all ONE, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor, and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life; just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are for more than you imagine. you are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free! life inspirational worry Dan Millman
125eb98 It was the heaviest thing I'd ever felt, as if I were being crushed under a thousand trucks. I wanted to black out from the pain, but I breathed deeply. inspirational pjo the-titan-s-curse percy-jackson-and-the-olympians Rick Riordan
3d3e9f6 "Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin." inspirational Max Lucado
dc53499 Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. faith inspiration spirituality dreams inspirational positive-motivation mystical-poetry mystical-powers metaphysics power Aberjhani
9a89164 I wish I wasn't an imperial highness or an ex-grand duchess. I'm sick of people doing things to me because of what I am. Girl-in-white-dress. Short-one-with-fringe. Daughter-of-the-tsar. Child-of-the-ex-tyrant. I want people to look and see me, Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova, not the caboose on a train of grand duchesses. Someday, I promise myself, no one will be able to hear my name or look at my picture and suppose they know all about me. Someday I will do something bigger than what I am. life inspirational otma romanovs tsar-nicholas russian-revolution royalty self russia Sarah Miller
c263b90 The Court of Dreams. The people who knew that there was a price, and one worth paying, for that dream. sacrifice friendship inspirational price Sarah J. Maas
052df2c This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back. life inspirational John Steinbeck
c912b40 Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts. heaven christianity spirituality god philosophy inspirational jesus-shock catholicism theology hearts Peter Kreeft
fbccacf What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness? mind love inspirational intellect Martin Luther King Jr.
05eaaf3 Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. inspirational Jimmy Buffett
a9b7df1 So the question becomes, If you are ever faced with this choice are you willing to die for what you believe in? For that is the only way you will deny him. [...] It's a difficult question and not one you can answer until you're faced with it. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. inspirational martyr brom christopher-paolini eragon Christopher Paolini
7b78707 Do you enjoy holidays with your family? I don't mean your mom and dad family, but your uncle and aunt and cousin family? Personally, I do. There are several reasons for this. First, I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other. Second, the fights are always the same. inspirational Stephen Chbosky
0cb90e8 "You'd better tell me what you know, toad," said Tiffany. "Miss Tick isn't here. I am." "Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "There. Happy now? That's what Miss Tick thinks. But it's happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back." "Why?" "There's no one to stop them." There was silence for a moment. "There's me," said Tiffany." inspirational monsters Terry Pratchett
dc13070 Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did. inspirational page-418 phury john heroin J.R. Ward
edb6885 "Hermes's shoulders sagged. "They'll try, Percy. Oh, we'll all try to keep our promise. And maybe for a while things will get better. But we gods have never been good at keeping oaths. You were born because of a broken promise, eh? Eventually we'll become forgetful. We always do." "You can change." Hermes laughed. "After three thousand years, you think the gods can change their nature?" "Yeah," I said. "I do." inspirational keeping-promises percy-jackson hermes Rick Riordan
98fc973 It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty. inspirational meaningful symbolic Jeannette Walls
5c8a1cb We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn't disappear; it's transformed into the clean surface. spiritual inspirational portobello witch transformation Paulo Coelho
4097c18 "And he'd railed at her, his voice booming so loud the bed had seem to shake. She knew he was constantly there, was aware of his movement and comprehended his words, but she couldn't seem to open her heavy eyelids or speak. At night, he would wrap his body around hers, keeping her warm, whispering against her hair, "You enjoy being contrary. Then prove them all wrong and get better." He'd clutched her hip, then balled his fist there." romance love inspirational ethan-maccarrick maddy sickness Kresley Cole
d6a0740 And those hard slovos, brothers, were like the beginning of my freedom. inspirational burgess clockwork-orange Anthony Burgess
dfc57ac I feel very strongly about putting questions; it partakes too much of the style of the day of judgement. You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others; and presently some bland old bird (the last you would have thought of) is knocked on the head in his own back garden, and the family have to change their name. No, sir, I make it a rule of mine: the more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask. life inspirational Robert Louis Stevenson
735dea3 We are all just beginners here, and we shall all die beginners. inspirational creativity Elizabeth Gilbert
309d56c "Forget your voice, sing! Forget your feet, dance! lover present dance live spirituality music song spiritual life love inspirational sing awareness-quotes be become let-go conscious consciousness-quotes consciousness feet enjoy yourself khayyam harmony letting-go-quotes living-in-the-now moment saadi kamand kamand-kojouri kojouri sufi rumi hafiz hafez awareness surrender forget voice beloved Kamand Kojouri
f808ff9 What matters right now is this: we're each of us standing here, together, alive, together. inspirational Beth Revis
100f471 "Within sixty-minute limits or one-hundred-yard limits or the limits of a game board, we can look for perfect moments or perfect structures. In my fiction I think this search sometimes turns out to be a cruel delusion. No optimism, no pessimism. No homesickness for lost values or for the way fiction used to be written. Everybody seems to know everything. Subjects surface and are totally exhausted in a matter of days or weeks, totally played out by the publishing industry and the broadcast industry. Nothing is too arcane to escape the treatment, the process. Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market. The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence. The writer is the man or woman who automatically takes a stance against his or her government. There are so many temptations for American writers to become part of the system and part of the structure that now, more than ever, we have to resist. American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous. Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail. Some people prefer to believe in conspiracy because they are made anxious by random acts. Believing in conspiracy is almost comforting because, in a sense, a conspiracy is a story we tell each other to ward off the dread of chaotic and random acts. Conspiracy offers coherence. I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfillment in America... I see this desperation against the backdrop of brightly colored packages and products and consumer happiness and every promise that American life makes day by day and minute by minute everywhere we go. Discarded pages mark the physical dimensions of a writer's labor. Film allows us to examine ourselves in ways earlier societies could not--examine ourselves, imitate ourselves, extend ourselves, reshape our reality. It permeates our lives, this double vision, and also detaches us, turns some of us into actors doing walk-throughs. science humor inspirational Don DeLillo
e0177df There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon. inspirational Jimmy Buffett
3e15f8f Form follows emotion life inspirational Walter Isaacson
7ae046b I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let's think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow- that's vulnerability. Love is uncertain. It's incredibly risky. And loving someone leaves us emotionally exposed. Yes, it's scary, and yes, we're open to being hurt, but can you imagine your life without loving or being loved? inspirational daring-greatly Brené Brown
7a47d33 Life is too short to be anything but real with the cast of characters God has placed in the story of your life. Love well, laugh often, and find your life in Christ. Don't hide away or be a follower. Be the wonderful unique person God made you to be, and know that your purpose will always be best when defined by your faith in him faith hope love truth inspirational Karen Kingsbury
40c3061 "I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York's broodmare." I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. "You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn't that sin?" His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. "I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful." romantic love inspirational Philippa Gregory
2e6def4 Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he'll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like. love inspirational janie sweet Penny Reid
5f1b5ff There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. motivational inspirational Orson Scott Card
1ea3283 I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part. humor inspirational weasels nature-writing essays Annie Dillard
ffbf722 I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. theatre shakespeare names poetry inspiration identity life love inspirational new-life birth resurrection theater name William Shakespeare
32e5aec She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them. life inspirational strong pride Isabel Allende
c7e0ac2 There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket. inspirational Elizabeth Gilbert
25f6771 Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone accept, His Lordship. The Cross, as it enters the love life, will reveal the heart's truth. jesus god love inspirational lordship lord christian christ will Elisabeth Elliot
3eae2c8 At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd; though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead. inspirational satire Bret Easton Ellis
d14212b "It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor." time inspirational late plan Mitch Albom
5442497 Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible. I don't know how some people are able to disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that. inspirational love-and-glory respecting-others Judith McNaught
c8aa135 So may the New Year be a happy one to you, happy to many more whose happiness depends on you! inspirational chimes year wise new Charles Dickens
b6d7a85 For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted. hope love inspirational Sherrilyn Kenyon
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