In Inspirational Quotes

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

We accept the love we think we deserve.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Everything you can imagine is real.

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

What's meant to be will always find a way

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

He is half of my soul, as the poets say.

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

I was smiling yesterday,I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.

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.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?

What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

The past has no power over the present moment.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

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

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone. ... We leave you a tradition with a future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete. People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw out anybody. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.

Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.” I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.