Inspiration can often be a powerful catalyst for motivation and change, offering clarity and a fresh perspective on life's challenges. Quotes, in their succinct wisdom, have an incredible ability to convey profound truths, spark creativity, and uplift our spirits. This curated collection of inspiring quotes is designed to do just that—encourage and empower, drawing from the thoughts of great minds and visionaries. Whether you're seeking a boost to start your day, guidance during a challenging time, or simply a moment of reflection, these quotes offer a wealth of insight and encouragement. Dive in and explore this selection to find the words that resonate most with you.
1. “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. “[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."(The Record Lie)” - A.A. Milne
3. “I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.” - Karl Lagerfeld
4. “I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.” - Karl Lagerfeld
5. “I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.” - Karl Lagerfeld
6. “life weighs heavy upon my shoulders and patience starts wearing thin, it is divine hope and dreams which sustain me, pushing me forth against the wind.” - Terry a O'Neal
7. “Your thoughts make what happen in your life~You can turn anything negative into the positive~What you visualize can come true and you attract it to yourself” - pattimari sheets-diamond
8. “أني لأرثى لحال هؤلاء البشر الذين يعيشون خارج قضبان السجن ولم تتسنّ لهم الفرصة ليعرفوا القيمة الحقيقية للحياه” - مليكة أوفقير ، ميشيل فيتوسي
9. “I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.” - Aimee Mann
10. “"Based on a true story"? No, thanks. I prefer "based on a true imagination".” - Enkelejd Lamaj
11. “Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.” - Karl Lagerfeld
12. “Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.” - Karl Lagerfeld
13. “If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.” - Deepak Chopra
14. “Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth.” - T.F. Hodge
15. “What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything...stop pipe dreaming.” - T.F. Hodge
16. “The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within.” - T.F. Hodge
17. “Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it?” - T.F. Hodge
18. “Solitude is the house of peace.” - T.F. Hodge
19. “I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate.” - T.F. Hodge
20. “Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.” - T.F. Hodge
21. “If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!” - T.F. Hodge
22. “Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with.” - T.F. Hodge
23. “Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.” - T.F. Hodge
24. “Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power.” - T.F. Hodge
25. “What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal – peace.” - T.F. Hodge
26. “Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it.” - T.F. Hodge
27. “Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.” - Deepak Chopra
28. “To witness miracles unfold in your experience, count your blessings and be thankful. Perceived small blessings accumulate to be the most powerful.” - T.F. Hodge
29. “During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good.” - T.F. Hodge
30. “Day or night, good or bad…all things from within.” - T.F. Hodge
31. “...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--''Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'...Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over.” - Neal Shusterman
32. “Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.” - T.F. Hodge
33. “You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” - John Eliot
34. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,' I said, sighing.'Is it?' said Veronica, looking surprised. 'Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes life similar to human societies beyond this planet, and besides--''No, no, it's a quote from ... Never mind,' I said.” - Michelle Cooper
35. “Cottage cheese, broken down into its simplest form, is milk that has been curdled to mimic the cellulite its consumption is meant to banish.” - Elsie Love
36. “I don’t care what Einstein said about God not playing dice; If he exists, he’s addicted to craps.” - Henry Mosquera
37. “LOVE is and will ALWAYS be the greatest GIFT ƸӜƷ” - M.G. Wells
38. “The smooth folds of her dress concealed a tumultuous heart, and her modest lips told nothing of her torment. She was in love.” - Gustave Flaubert
39. “My father once told me that it’s not enough for a man to be lucky; that a guy has to know when that streak is on for him.” - Henry Mosquera
40. “It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.” - Lauren Oliver
41. “Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT” - Eddie Johnson
42. “People that love quotes are those short on time, but long on big ideas.” - Bruce Edwin
43. “The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.” - Elizabeth Parker
44. “Sometimes it takes a meltdown to cool down.” - Evinda Lepins
45. “But things work out, you know? Even if it doesn't feel okay for a long time, or even if it feels lke things will never be okay again, everything works out in the end.” - Lauren Morrill
46. “Have you never been so heartbreakingly lonely that you felt as though you would go mad?”- Darcia Moon, Gravitation, Book One: Beyond the Pale” - N.L. Armitage
47. “It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.” - Jackson Pearce
48. “You`ll wondering why aren`t you born in Japan if you think you`re an Otaku” - Otaku Quotes
49. “If poetry is what you live for then do it write.” - R.M. Engelhardt
50. “The Beatles.”“What about The Beatles?”“They nailed it.”“Nailed what?”“Everything.”“What do you mean?”Dev takes his arm and puts it right against mine, skin to skin, sweat on sweat, touch on touch. Then he glides his hand into mine and intertwines our fingers.“This,” he says. “This is why The Beatles got it.”“I’m afraid I’m not following…”“Other bands, it’s about sex. Or pain. Or some fantasy. But The Beatles, they knew what they were doing.You know the reason The Beatles made it so big?”“What?”‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. Perhaps the most fucking brilliant song ever written. Because they nailed it. That’s what everyone wants. Not 24-7 hot wet sex. Not a marriage that lasts a hundred years. Not a Porsche or a blow job or a million-dollar crib. No. They wanna hold your hand. They have such a feeling that they can’t hide. Every single successful love song of the past fifty years can be traced back to ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ And every single successful love story has those unbearable and unbearably exciting moments of hand-holding.” - Rachen Cohn David Levithan
51. “Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.” - Baltasar Gracian
52. “Stars are only the rain of the Absolute.” - Dejan Stojanovic
53. “The world is God's salvation.” - Dejan Stojanovic
54. “The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.” - Dejan Stojanovic
55. “Absolute equals nothingness.” - Dejan Stojanovic
56. “God is a cloud from which rain fell.” - Dejan Stojanovic
57. “Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.” - Dejan Stojanovic
58. “Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.” - Dejan Stojanovic
59. “Universe is the Sun watching its own self.” - Dejan Stojanovic
60. “Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.” - Dejan Stojanovic
61. “A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.” - Dejan Stojanovic
62. “Teaching others, he corrected himself.” - Dejan Stojanovic
63. “After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?” - Dejan Stojanovic
64. “We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.” - Dejan Stojanovic
65. “Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.” - Dejan Stojanovic
66. “You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.” - Dejan Stojanovic
67. “Either you will be you or you will not be at all.” - Dejan Stojanovic
68. “We need knew knights, but without swords.” - Dejan Stojanovic
69. “Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.” - Dejan Stojanovic
70. “Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.” - Dejan Stojanovic
71. “Now that we are all so smart, we don’t easily find resolutions.” - Dejan Stojanovic
72. “Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.” - Dejan Stojanovic
73. “Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.” - Dejan Stojanovic
74. “He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.” - Dejan Stojanovic
75. “It’s not easy to write a poem about a poem.” - Dejan Stojanovic
76. “They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.” - Dejan Stojanovic
77. “They grew; they did not talk about growing.” - Dejan Stojanovic
78. “For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.” - Dejan Stojanovic
79. “Beyond all vanities, fights, and desires, omnipotent silence lies.” - Dejan Stojanovic
80. “Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.” - Dejan Stojanovic
81. “Without space, there is no time.” - Dejan Stojanovic
82. “Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.” - Dejan Stojanovic
83. “Love is almost never simple.” - Dejan Stojanovic
84. “A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.” - Dejan Stojanovic
85. “There can be no forced inspiration.” - Dejan Stojanovic
86. “If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.” - Dejan Stojanovic
87. “History will be erased in the universal purgatory.” - Dejan Stojanovic
88. “He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.” - Dejan Stojanovic
89. “Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.” - Dejan Stojanovic
90. “Jews believe that people are creators, not consumers. The role of humans is to improve and perfect God's creations through work, creation, and innovation.” - H.W. Charles
91. “Although some popular religious texts such as the New Testament, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, or Tibetan Book of the Dead contain interesting insights and stories, it is the Jewish religious texts such as the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) that contain valuable information on acquiring wealth.” - H.W. Charles
92. “Use the wings of the flying Universe, Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.” - Dejan Stojanovic
93. “Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.” - Dejan Stojanovic
94. “Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.” - Dejan Stojanovic
95. “I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.” - Dejan Stojanovic
96. “A star needs a star.” - Dejan Stojanovic
97. “To understand possible means to understand impossible.” - Dejan Stojanovic
98. “The world is a navy in an empty ocean.” - Dejan Stojanovic
99. “Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.” - Dejan Stojanovic
100. “The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.” - Dejan Stojanovic
101. “If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.” - Dejan Stojanovic
102. “Nothing is part of everything.” - Dejan Stojanovic
103. “From everything, nothing looks to nothing.” - Dejan Stojanovic
104. “There is nobody to wake up eternal seekers.” - Dejan Stojanovic
105. “The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.” - Dejan Stojanovic
106. “When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.” - Dejan Stojanovic
107. “Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.” - Dejan Stojanovic
108. “Human kind gradually begins to remove the blinders from their consciousness about life, about what is real and what is not. Intuition and psychic abilities increase.” - Elaine Seiler
109. “I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.” - Dejan Stojanovic
110. “Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.” - Dejan Stojanovic
111. “I travel, always arriving in the same place.” - Dejan Stojanovic
112. “I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?” - Dejan Stojanovic
113. “Through everything I have passed but nowhere I have been.” - Dejan Stojanovic
114. “Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant.” - Dejan Stojanovic
115. “Death is only final when you know you're not going to see them again!” - Evinda Lepins
116. “Life is like defusing a bomb, once you cut the wrong wire your whole life is ruined.” - Mohamed Zahy Hussain
117. “I photography women as I liked to fell in love of them.” - Aurélien Roulland
118. “She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh ” - Kim Cormack
119. “What happened to me separates me from the normal world in a negative way. Like a handicap or disfiguring deformity, it's too horrible for some people to deal with, and it makes them uncomfortable whenever they're around me. ~Leigh Byrne, Call Me Tuesday” - Leigh Byrne
120. “...we're dealing with two devils who both want to rule hell.” - Ruta Sepetys
121. “It is better to do what you love for work, but if it is your day job that enables an unpaid passion, then your life is still sweeter. What is important is that you make time for your dreams, not whether or not you get paid for it.” - Tara Moss
122. “No one ever said your life would be easy. The nature of being human makes life for all of us a challenge. The most important thing to consider here is this. Your life is only as challenging as you think it is. Think of challenge as a teacher and yourself the student. It's up to you to figure out what the lesson is to be learned. To learn that lesson and build the strength and courage to face other challenges….” - James A. Murphy
123. “Maybe there is something. Something deep. Something in border of physical and incomprehensible. Something unknowable. Something completely beyond of all psychological, logical and scientific definitions about human. Something, for which the death is no irreversible limit.Something so strange and absurd.Something infinite and eternal in Homo Sapiens. Never - dying fire. The human spirit".” - Alexandar Tomov
124. “Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman
125. “Ideally, love is unconditional; practically, it is more often the opposite.” - T.F. Hodge
126. “Stop worrying about life, no one survived it.” - A.J. Shazad
127. “Nobody is qualified enough to give advise on intimate relationships other than those sleeping with it.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves
128. “Praise your God in a silent and humbly manner instead of rubbing his back with loud praises while silently committing horrendous acts.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves
129. “You may not possess a body that everyone want to admire.You may not possess wealth that everyone want to have.However you should possess a character that will make you worthy to love.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves
130. “Then I learnt of “white Christmas”, which again I found very peculiar since we always have a white Christmas at home for it never passes by without eating rice. That is our white Christmas.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves
131. “Drooling over an African figure that I could never have, I feasted my eyes uponthe swaying mounds of my fellow African sisters.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves
132. “If a lion can growl, why shouldn’t a man cry?” - Gloria D. Gonsalves
133. “At times we are the worst racist enemies of our black selves.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves
134. “Then I saw his kind eyes, a comfort I desired. Then I saw his height, a knight I needed by my side. Then I saw his body, a man I surrendered to.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves
135. “My lips swelled with red freshness, my chest heaved proudly with a pair of pointed African drums, my face tempted with its sweetness like Kilimanjaro waters and my height spoke a language only a Maasai warrior knew.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves
136. “Right now in this world, a child is dying from an ailment because its family cannot afford to buy charcoal for boiling water.Right now in this world, a girl is striving to find firewood from trees that no more exist, and water from sources that are poisonous.Right now in this world, a boy is out fishing in a lake rich with inedible species.Right now in this world, a mother is drowning in heavy rainfall, to save her belongings.Right now in this world, a man has lost his dignity because all his eff orts to save have been wiped away to poverty by unforeseen calamities.Right now in this world, a family is starving because drought has invaded their once fertile land.Right now in this world, a nation is planning for refugee status due to adverse climate conditions.Right now in this world, you have a choice to help alleviate environmental problems caused by humankind.” - Gloria D. Gonsalves
137. “I do feel like I have important, beautiful things to say about the world, I just can't think of them at this particular instant.” - Peter Davis
138. “...and the smoke that creeps off the tip of my cigarette and into the dim, scattered strands of light leaking off the moon, in through the clefts in the curtains, is much like my spirit trying to escape the burn of yesterday's presence.” - Kellie Elmore
139. “You're surrounded by people and voices and noises, but there you are, alone and trembling inside. And you want to be invisible. (thinking) Please, don't notice me.” - Kellie Elmore
