147 Inspiring Advice Quotes

In the journey of life, there are moments when a spark of inspiration can make all the difference. Whether you're facing challenges, seeking motivation, or simply in need of a gentle nudge forward, the right words can provide profound clarity and encouragement. Inspirational advice has the power to resonate with our deepest aspirations and fuel our drive to transform dreams into reality. In this carefully curated collection of 147 inspiring advice quotes, you'll find wisdom from thinkers, leaders, and visionaries who have touched countless lives. Let these gems of guidance uplift your spirit, ignite your passion, and illuminate your path.

1. “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” - Erica Jong

2. “In the end only kindness matters.” - Jewel

3. “If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.” - Jules Renard

4. “Every human being, he believed, must do one of three basic things during his lifetime: leave something living, create something lovely, or make something better.” - Renee Manfredi

5. “It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.” - Anne Tyler

6. “It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.” - Thomas McGuane

7. “When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.” - Al Franken

8. “How do I know what I think until I see what I say?” - E.M. Forster

9. “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” - Bruce Lee

10. “There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.” - Charles Proteus Steinmetz

11. “I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.” - Mary Wortley Montagu

12. “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” - Randy Pausch

13. “But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another.” - C.S. Lewis

14. “Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.” - Theodore Roosevelt

15. “Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.” - William Shakespeare

16. “Self-consciousness kills communication.” - Rick Steves

17. “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.” - Stephen King

18. “Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it were agreeable, but the activity itself was always unsatisfactory; there was no full assurance that the work was really necessary, and the activity itself, which at first seemed so great, ever lessened and lessened till it vanished. But now...when he began to confine himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer felt any joy at the thought of his activity, he felt confident that his work was necessary, saw that it progressed far better than formerly, and that it was always growing more and more.” - Leo Tolstoy

19. “The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.” - Barbara Hambly

20. “Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

21. “Don't leave a piece of jewelry at his house so you can go back and get it later; he may be with his real girlfriend.” - Amy Sedaris

22. “In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy and kindness; (3) if you want to know what kind of a wife someone will make, observe her around her father and mother; (4) as to who gets out of the elevator first, I just can't help you.” - David Mamet

23. “And my piece of advice is...don't flirt with any of the female instructors. They all have access to weapons bigger than yours.” - Simone Elkeles

24. “a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.” - Roland Smith

25. “Let's die of it before we're too old.” - John le Carré

26. “Evan Connell said once that he knew he was finished with a short story when he found himself going through it and taking out commas and then going through the story again and putting the commas back in the same places. I like that way of working on something. I respect that kind of care for what is being done. That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones, with the punctuation in the right places so that they an best say what they are meant to say. If the words are heavy with the writer's own unbridled emotions, or if they are imprecise and inaccurate for some other reason -- if the worlds are in any way blurred -- the reader's eyes will slide right over them and nothing will be achieved. Henry James called this sort of hapless writing 'weak specification'.” - Raymond Carver

27. “Don't go looking for boys in the darkThey will say pretty things thenleave you with scars.Do go looking for boys in the parkFor that is where the true gentlemen are.” - Anna Godbersen

28. “You can think clearly only with your clothes on.” - Margaret Atwood

29. “You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.” - Adrian Tan

30. “People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.” - Oscar Wilde

31. “Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ” - Wendell Johnson

32. “If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;!” - Rudyard Kipling

33. “People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.” - Brendan Francis Brown

34. “Never give advice unless you have walked the walk, because anybody can talk the talk.” - Valencia Mackie

35. “Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?” - Neil Gaiman

36. “Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man who tells you this, for he has no job to offer and doesn't know anyone who knows of a vacancy. This is exactly the reason why he gives you such generous advice, out of brotherly love, and to demonstrate how little he knows the world.” - B. Traven

37. “Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.” - Catherine Gilbert Murdock

38. “...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when you're older—lots of people will try to tell you what to think and feel. Try to stand still inside all of that and hear your own voice. It's yours and only yours, it's unique and worth of your attention, and if you cultivate it properly, it might just make you a writer.” - Jennifer Donnelly

39. “Gran, for the gods' love, it's talk like yours that starts riots!" I said keeping my voice down. "Will you just put a stopper in it?"She looked at me and sighed. "Girl, do you ever take a breath and wonder if folk don't put out bait for you? To see if you'll bite? You'll never get a man if you don't relax."My dear old Gran. It's a wonder her children aren't every one of them as mad as priests, if she mangles their wits as she mangles mine."Granny, "I told her, "this is dead serious. I can't relax, no more than any Dog. I'm not shopping for a man. That's the last thing I need.” - Tamora Pierce

40. “Over the years I've received thousands of e-mails looking for guidance. Some have real problems; some talk about monkeys and poo--though those people may also have real problems.” - Eugene Mirman

41. “No. The moral of the story in so far as it has one is that cannibals can study logic, and that if you are going to leave the path, you better have your wits about you and know better than to trust the first scary old lady who talks to you in public.” - Nick Harkaway

42. “Who would condescend to strike down the mere things that he does notfear? Who would debase himself to be merely brave, like any commonprizefighter? Who would stoop to be fearless--like a tree? Fight thething that you fear. You remember the old tale of the English clergymanwho gave the last rites to the brigand of Sicily, and how on hisdeath-bed the great robber said, 'I can give you no money, but I cangive you advice for a lifetime: your thumb on the blade, and strikeupwards.' So I say to you, strike upwards, if you strike at the stars.” - G.K. Chesterton

43. “Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?” - Christopher Paolini

44. “Wisdom most of the time takes form of advice. ” - Veda Catherine Storey

45. “Do whatever you want. Break stuff, touch your penis or boobs to anything, whatever.” - Eugene Mirman

46. “Most bullies are the product of a stressful and often abusive home life. Next time a bully threatens or attacks you, just yell, 'Don't abuse me like your parents abuse you!' Then call children's services and tell them you saw this bully crying in the bathroom and you're worried about him. Bam! He just got moved to a foster home.” - Eugene Mirman

47. “Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it. ” - Eugene Mirman

48. “If things are really overwhelming and you need to talk, you can give me a call at 347-273-2044.” - Eugene Mirman

49. “Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive. Do not let them direct your interaction on their terms, do it on yours. Ask a Misdirection Question--something too difficult to answer quickly--e.g., 'What's Congress up to?' or 'You ever learn any cool science?' When you ask the question, don't make eye contact, keep moving and get out of there. Do not wait for a response and deny ever asking it. Repeat these actions until you are never again spoken to by that individual (about four times).” - Eugene Mirman

50. “One of the greatest pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my life was from my mom. When I was a little kid there was a kid who was bugging me at school and she said “Okay, I’m gonna tell you what to do. If the kid’s bugging you and puts his hands on you; you pick up the nearest rock...” - Johnny Depp

51. “I have never yet figured out what to do about good advice that you get, and that you know right away would help you, but that you cannot follow.” - Holly Lisle

52. “Life’s a marathon, not a sprint.” - Phillip C. McGraw

53. “I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.” - Omar Sharif

54. “Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.” - Ptahhotep

55. “The hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.” - Eddie Van Halen

56. “Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you.” - George Carlin

57. “If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.” - R.A. Salvatore

58. “Everyone has a story inside them. Some are bedtimes stories, some thrill and others scare and horrify their readers. Find out what your story is and share it with the world.” - CK Webb

59. “But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience.4. Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin'd to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding2 only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend.” - Benjamin Franklin

60. “Question.""Yes," Candace asked expectantly, eyes fixed on the dark street ahead."Have you ever had to chose sides between a friend and a boyfriend?"Candace nodded."Which side are you suppose to pick?""The right one.""What if they're both right?""They're not.""But they are," Melody insisted. "That's the problem.""No." Candace slowly rolled past a police cruiser. "They both think they're right. But who do you think is right? Which side represents the thing you think is worth fighting for?"Melody glanced out the window as though she was expecting the answer to be revealed on a neighbor's lawn. Every house except hers had the lights turned off. "I dunno.""You do," Candace insisted. "You just don't have the courage to be honest with yourself. Because then you'd have to do the thing you don't want to do, and you hate doing anything that's hard. Which is why you gave up singing and why you have no life and why you've always been a -""Um okay! Can we get back to the part where you were sounding like Oprah?""I'm just saying, Melly, what would you do if you weren't afraid? That's your answer. That's your side." She turned into the circular driveway and put the SUV in PARK. "And if you don't choose it, you're lying to yourself and everyone around you." She opened the door and grabbed her purse. "Oprah out!"The door slammed behind her.” - Lisi Harrison

61. “I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell them. Plug your nose and jump in, and write down all your memories as truthfully as you can. Flannery O' Connor said that anyone who has survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Maybe your childhood was grim and horrible, but grim and horrible is Okay if it is well done. Don't worry about doing it well yet, though. Just get it down.” - Anne Lamott

62. “Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been raised thinking that if you told the truth about what really went on in your family, a long bony white finger would emerge from a cloud and point to you, while a chilling voice thundered, "We *told* you not to tell." But that was then. Just put down on paper everything you can remember now about your parents and siblings and relatives and neighbors, and we will deal with libel later on.” - Anne Lamott

63. “But how?" my students ask. "How do you actually do it?" You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. So you sit down at, say, nine every morning, or ten every night. You put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on the computer and bring up the right file, and then you stare at it for an hour or so. You begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. You look at the ceiling, and over at the clock, yawn, and stare at the paper again. Then, with your fingers poised on the keyboard, you squint at an image that is forming in your mind -- a scene, a locale, a character, whatever -- and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear what that landscape or character has to say above the other voices in your mind.” - Anne Lamott

64. “And everyone is always saying that marriage is really hard and takes a lot of work. But the thing is, when you know that you love someone, those things don’t matter. You have to push all the everyday things and the outside world away, and just enjoy knowing that this is the man who has the chest your head is meant to lie on.” - Erin McCarthy

65. “We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.” - Jane Austen

66. “One bullet can really fuck up your day.” - Mark Haskell Smith

67. “Light tomorrow with today.” - George Barnard Moore

68. “...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.” - M.F.K. Fisher

69. “Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

70. “Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeplyMust take great care they do not, Paddle too deeply.'Thus spake the awful aging coupleWhose heart the years had turned to rubble.But the little children, to save any bother,Let it in at one ear and out at the other.” - Stevie Smith

71. “Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.” - Mary Schmich

72. “Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children." -Diana” - Kate Petrella

73. “Sometimes the best advice comes from those whom you least expect…therefore take no one for granted” - Jeremy Aldana

74. “I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.” - William Faulkner

75. “Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.” - Jess C. Scott

76. “Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.” - Ron Chernow

77. “You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.” - Connie Brockway

78. “Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.” - Connie Brockway

79. “If you have to think about it twice you probably shouldn't do it” - Sophia Nam

80. “if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.” - Maira Kalman

81. “Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?” - Jonathan Safran Foer

82. “Better to have you curse me for giving you too much freedom, than have you blame me for bad decisions that may or may not have come as a result of my advice.” - Tori Carrington

83. “Be happy without picking flaws.” - Victor Hugo

84. “Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.” - E.M. Forster

85. “Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score.” - William Shakespeare

86. “Let go of the mistakes and the sins of others. You'll have plenty of time to make your own mistakes, the rest of your life to commit your own sins.” - C. JoyBell C.

87. “A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.” - A. Lee Martinez

88. “No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.And give up verse, my boy,There's nothing in it.Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:Don't kick against the pricks,Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your gameAnd died, there's nothing in it.” - Ezra Pound

89. “Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.” - Nicki Minaj

90. “You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.” - Craig Silvey

91. “It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.” - Randy Pausch

92. “The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.” - Basil Wolverton

93. “This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.” - Ann Brashares

94. “Here are the two states in which you may exist: person who writes, or person who does not. If you write: you are a writer. If you do not write: you are not. Aspiring is a meaningless null state that romanticizes Not Writing. It’s as ludicrous as saying, “I aspire to pick up that piece of paper that fell on the floor.” Either pick it up or don’t. I don’t want to hear about how your diaper’s full. Take it off or stop talking about it.” - Chuck Wendig

95. “A lie twice believed is self decieved” - Brandon Mull

96. “You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.” - Steve Jobs

97. “Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.” - Herbert Beerbohm Tree

98. “Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can't be in life.” - Meg Medina

99. “The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.” - Haruki Murakami

100. “You must read to lead. Reading feeds. It opens our souls to a long line of counselors.” - Dave Harvey

101. “Now ... if you trust in yourself ... and believe in your dreams ... and follow your star ... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy. Goodbye.” - Terry Pratchett

102. “You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man” - Jeannette Walls

103. “A living being either creates or destroys...some choice.” - Mike Redican

104. “Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.” - Benjamin Franklin

105. “Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.” - John Adams

106. “If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.” - C. JoyBell C.

107. “It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!” - Tamora Pierce

108. “I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as well as one knows himself? Heaven knows. I know little enough of myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself.” - W. Somerset Maugham

109. “Often the best advice is not to seek advice.” - Habeeb Akande

110. “Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.” - Teresa Mummert

111. “Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.” - Teresa Mummert

112. “She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.” - Robert Ludlum

113. “Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.” - Basil Bunting

114. “At their core, Tiger Eyes, Forever..., and Sally J. Freeman are all books about teenage issues, but to an adult reader, the parents' story lines seem to almost overshadow their daughters. I'm bringing an entirely new set of experiences to these novels now, and my reward is a fresh set of story lines that i missed the first time around. I'm sure that in twenty or thirty years I'll read these books again and completely identify with all the grandparent characteristics. That's the wonderful thing about Judy Blume - you can revisit her stories at any stage in life and find a character who strikes a deep chord of recognition. I've been there, I'm in the middle of this, someday that'll be me. The same characters, yet somehow completely different. (Beth Kendrick)” - Jennifer O'Connell

115. “You know, there comes a point where you're not giving advice anymore. There comes a point where you're just moralizing, demonstrating your hypothetical superiority when it comes to doing the right thing. That's not very fucking helpful, you know. I'm holding my shit together right now, and rather than telling me that it's not enough, you could try to help me with the stuff I'm capable of.” - Cory Doctorow

116. “When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.” - Jocelynn Drake

117. “We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives...not looking for flaws, but for potential.” - Ellen Goodman

118. “The lady who works in the grocery store at the corner of my block is called Denise, and she's one of America's great unpublished novelists. Over the years she's written forty-two romantic novels, none of which have ever reached the bookstores. I, however, have been fortunate enough to hear the plots of the last twenty-seven of these recounted in installments by the authoress herself every time I drop by the store for a jar of coffee or can of beans, and my respect for Denise's literary prowess knows no bounds. So, naturally enough, when I found myself faced with the daunting task of actually starting the book you now hold in your hands, it was Denise I turned to for advice.” - Dave Gibbons

119. “Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)” - Paul Tobin

120. “Be focused in what you do and what you say. There is much noise in the world to detrack you.” - Moazzam Shaikh

121. “When has faith ever been about feelings?” - Camy Tang

122. “...[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me.” - Melissa Kantor

123. “Govore mi da sam mlada i da ću događanja prihvatiti kad odrastem.” - Jasna Horvat

124. “Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These institutions have been necessary to protect us as a nation, and when this necessity for self-preservation will no more exist, they will die a natural death. But the older I grow, the better I seem to think of these time-honored institutions of India. There was a time when I used to think that many of them were useless and worthless; but the older I grew, the more I seem to feel a diffidence in cursing any one of them, for each one of them is the embodiment of the experience of centuries. A child of but yesterday, destined to die the day after tomorrow, comes to me and asks me to change all my plans; and if I hear the advice of that baby and change all my surroundings according to his ideas, I myself should be a fool, and no one else. Much of the advice that is coming to us from different countries is similar to this. Tell these wiseacres: "I will hear you when you have made a society yourselves. You cannot hold on to one idea for two days, you quarrel and fail; you are born like moths in the spring and die like them in five minutes. You come up like bubbles and burst like bubbles too. First form a stable society like ours. First make laws and institutions that remain undiminished in their power through scores of centuries. Then will be the time to talk on the subject with you, but till then, my friend, you are only a giddy child.” - Swami Vivekananda

125. “Dear Abby has had her day, now it's my turn!” - Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

126. “You don’t have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked… very much… and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger.” - Kristen Ashley

127. “Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.” - Sophie Kinsella

128. “Do notforget duty. But choose love when you can.” - Cinda Williams Chima

129. “If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead” - Benny Bellamacina

130. “Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one.” - Tegan Quin

131. “Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.” - Alice McCall

132. “Sweetie,” Dino said, coming over to put his arm around her shoulder. He tipped her head up and looked into her eyes with great empathy. “You can’t fuck a statue. At least not at that angle. You’d at least have to tip it onto its back first, and as a conservator, I can’t recommend it.” - Rosanna Leo

133. “Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12)” - David McCullough

134. “Don't settle for being an option; become a priority.” - Matt Mitchell

135. “There are worse things than being robbed..." I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. "...worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Little Red, and maybe you'll get to live awhile. Maybe you'll get to die in your own natural time.” - Neal Shusterman

136. “For every evil under the sun,There is a remedy, or there is none.If there be one, try and find it;If there be none, never mind it.” - Mother Goose Rhymes

137. “It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

138. “To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.” - Bertrand Russell

139. “But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. The choice is yours: to go or wait.''And it is also said,' answered Frodo: 'Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.''Is it indeed?' laughed Gildor. 'Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

140. “You can't always be by the people you love you have to let them live their own life.” - Brynlee

141. “He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to be was just asking for it.” - Liam Perrin

142. “Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.” - Liam Perrin

143. “Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.” - Dale Carnegie

144. “The ordeals of others . . .prepare us, andlater become the compass . . .in our time of ordeal.” - John-Talmage Mathis

145. “When I walk into [the studio] I am alone, but I am alone with my body, ambition, ideas, passions, needs, memories, goals, prejudices, distractions, fears. These ten items are at the heart of who I am. Whatever I am going to create will be a reflection of how these have shaped my life, and how I've learned to channel my experiences into them.The last two -- distractions and fears -- are the dangerous ones. They're the habitual demons that invade the launch of any project. No one starts a creative endeavor without a certain amount of fear; the key is to learn how to keep free-floating fears from paralyzing you before you've begun. When I feel that sense of dread, I try to make it as specific as possible. Let me tell you my five big fears:1. People will laugh at me.2. Someone has done it before.3. I have nothing to say. 4. I will upset someone I love. 5. Once executed, the idea will never be as good as it is in my mind."There are mighty demons, but they're hardly unique to me. You probably share some. If I let them, they'll shut down my impulses ('No, you can't do that') and perhaps turn off the spigots of creativity altogether. So I combat my fears with a staring-down ritual, like a boxer looking his opponent right in the eye before a bout.1. People will laugh at me? Not the people I respect; they haven't yet, and they're not going to start now....2. Someone has done it before? Honey, it's all been done before. Nothing's original. Not Homer or Shakespeare and certainly not you. Get over yourself.3. I have nothing to say? An irrelevant fear. We all have something to say.4. I will upset someone I love? A serious worry that is not easily exorcised or stared down because you never know how loved ones will respond to your creation. The best you can do is remind yourself that you're a good person with good intentions. You're trying to create unity, not discord.5. Once executed, the idea will never be as good as it is in my mind? Toughen up. Leon Battista Alberti, the 15th century architectural theorist, said, 'Errors accumulate in the sketch and compound in the model.' But better an imperfect dome in Florence than cathedrals in the clouds.” - Twyla Tharp

146. “Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.” - Christopher Paolini

147. “Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.” - Tibor Fischer