51 Inspirational Quotes For Life

Jan. 14, 2025, 3:45 a.m.

51 Inspirational Quotes For Life

In the journey of life, sometimes all it takes is a few words of wisdom to ignite our spirits and propel us forward. Inspirational quotes have the power to uplift, motivate, and provide clarity when we need it the most. Whether you're facing a challenge, celebrating a victory, or simply seeking a moment of reflection, these quotes offer valuable insights and timeless wisdom. In this collection, we've carefully selected 51 of the most inspiring quotes that resonate with the essence of life's beauty and complexity. Let these words serve as your guiding light, offering encouragement and inspiration whenever you need a boost.

1. “It seemed that for every evil they defeated, worse took its place, but Vaughn banished the thought that this all might be a cruel game, a hoax played on the… ''No! I know what true Goodness, true Life, true Love is. Besides, this is too miserable to be a game…unless demons…NO! Besides, even if I was some kind of pawn, well, then this game piece would rebel!” - Darryl Steven Markowitz

2. “To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.” - E'yen A. Gardner

3. “She passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and it accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.” - Khaled Hosseini

4. “Love is like a good cake; you never know when it's coming, but you'd better eat it when it does!” - C. JoyBell C.

5. “God and Destiny are not against us, rather they are for us, they are the ones who never forget the things we have long forgotten, the ones who hear the desires of our heart that our own heads can't hear, and they are the ones who never forget who we really are, long after our minds have forgotten the images of who we are. We come from God and we belong to Destiny, yet for some reason of ignorance we think that to be the master of our own fates and the captain of our own souls means to write everything down on a paper and plan everything out on a grid! Such great things to be done, and we think they are accomplished by our primitive ways! No. We must only know what we want. And want what we want. And then fly high enough to see all that which we want that we couldn't yet see.” - C. JoyBell C.

6. “I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the paper roses, the only one who chose the reddest red ribbon, and the only one who topped off with a golden card. And so I learned that if people are unhappy, it is only because they don't know how to look for the paper roses, they don't see the reddest red ribbon, and they don't like the little golden cards. We are all in the same wrap-shoppe in this life. But we are different. Because some of us are looking for the paper roses, choosing the reddest red ribbon, and picking up the little golden cards.” - C. JoyBell C.

7. “If you can't get a miracle, become one.” - Nick Vujicic

8. “و قد تسألين كيف ارتقت به هذه العظمة الكاذبة من درجة الى درجة، و من مكانة الى مكانة، و لكني أرجو أن تكوني أقل سذاجة من هذا يا سيدتي، فليس ينبغي أن تسألي عن الضعفاء و العاجزين كيف يرتفعون فذلك ملائم لطبيعة الاشياء، و انما يجب أن تسألي عن الأكفاء كيف يثبتون في مواضعهم و كيف يتاح لبعضهم أن يرقى إلى شئ من امتياز المنصب و ارتفاع المكانة فذلك هو المخالف للطبيعة، المباين لمنطق الدنياكما يقول أديب من أصدقائنا” - طه حسين

9. “Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.” - Lois McMaster Bujold

10. “When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren't either! Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different. And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white. Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, and He dances on the grey! Grey is okay.” - C. JoyBell C.

11. “The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.” - C. JoyBell C.

12. “Do not limit yourself to your own preconceptions of yourself, but throw yourself out onto a blank page that you haven't written on yet, and see what you find out about you, see what story unfolds, see what happens! I always do this, and sometimes it can be very frightening! To very often have a blank page with nothing written on it yet! I feel as though I am a soul with a single covering–my body of skin– and that's the only thing between me on the inside and the rest of the world! It's quite frightening to begin each day on a blank page, forgetting your own preconceptions of yourself and allowing your mind to embrace the new! It is like meeting yourself for the first time, over and over again!” - C. JoyBell C.

13. “Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.” - Sarah Winman

14. “Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.” - Michael Treanor

15. “Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.- Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out.- Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure- Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.” - Dan Millman

16. “It is only when you accept how different you all are, that you will be able to see how much the same you all are. Don't expect anybody to be the same as you, then you will see that you are in many ways the same as everybody.” - C. JoyBell C.

17. “I wanted to change the world, now I hope the world doesn't change me.” - Ray Mileur

18. “The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.” - C. JoyBell C.

19. “If you have the goods, life's too short to wait. Hidden gold is lost gold. The world should not be denied an opportunity to touch the collective imagination. To those who deny both the world and themselves, their larder deserves absolute obscurity. For those who share, obscurity is relative and a spark remains to keep the embers warm.” - Edward C. Patterson

20. “The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.” - Keri Hulme

21. “I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an entirety, I am not a lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many things. God did not see it needful to make me generic. He thinks I am better than that.” - C. JoyBell C.

22. “You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play. I tell you Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.” - Oscar Wilde

23. “Some people say they will not believe in anything they can't see. What a catastrophe to not have any faith at all! You live only less than a half of life, if you will only believe in the things that you can see. Life is lived by those who have much faith and believe in many unseen things. If you believe in nothing that you cannot see, think about how much there is that you choose to turn your face away from! You can't see your soul and you cannot prove that it exists, therefore if you call yourself one who believes in nothing unseen, then you will forever deny your soul its existence, for the existence of the soul dwells in love, trust, anger, passion, faith, belief, strength; the soul is forever nourished by things that are unseen! And so we have too many empty bodies walking around! Bodies with souls inside that are half-dead and dying.” - C. JoyBell C.

24. “When A Man Is Trying To Win The Heart Of A Woman,He Studies Her.He Learns Her Likes,Dislikes,Habits And Hobbies.But After He Wins Her Heart And Marries Her,He Often Stops Learning About Her.If The Amount He Studied Her Before Marriage Was Equal To A High School Degree,He Should Continue To Learn About Her Until He Gains A College Degree,A Master's Degree And Ultimately A Doctorate Degree.It Is A Lifelong Journey That Draws His Heart Ever Closer To Hers.” - Jennifer Dion

25. “It's all connected you know” - Dennis L. McKiernan

26. “If you want self-esteem.” “Do estimable acts” ~ V, from A Piece of Cake: Memoir” - Cupcake Brown

27. “Forgive but never forget” - sanaa bahaddou

28. “I don't understand why people care so much about showing that they are good; because I am rather comfortable with having badness, quite okay with being inexplicable. They tire themselves so. The light is beautiful; but light can't hide treasures like the darkness can.” - C. JoyBell C.

29. “We are constantly trying to be noticed that we don't notice other people.” - Teal V

30. “Peter Friedrich, wer bin ich? Peter Frederick, who am I? German or American? The answer was neither and both. I had German blood but an American mentality.This trip allowed me to understand that a man can make his home where ever he chooses. If I wanted, I could live happily in America. My heart fought and pleaded, saying it wasn't true, that I was German, and only in Germany would I be content. In one of the few times in my life, intellect overruled emotion. Germany wasn't the key to my happiness. I couldn't deny what I had experienced, and my last hope for a key to the castle door died. International adoption destroyed the connection to my heritage. It is only conjuncture to guess how my life might have turned out under different circumstances, but there is one certainty: If I had remained in the orphanage or had been adopted by German parents, I never would have suffered the loss of my national identity. If I had to be adopted by Americans, then they should have been of German descent.” - Peter Dodds

31. “Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.” - Chinua Achebe

32. “I’m a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding.” - Janet Rebhan

33. “Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines, apricots, mangoes, peaches and carrots.” - Tae Yun Kim

34. “Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time” - Ali ibn-e-Abu Talib

35. “Of all the Wonders in the World, the greatest wonder of all, was sharing it with you.” - Lisa Anderson

36. “Live your dreams.” - Cynthia Vespia

37. “Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles.” - Saleem Durrani

38. “El amor consiste en una empatía ilimitada, surgida de lo que el corazón nos revela, que el otro es tan real como nosotros. Y por eso el amor, según lo entiendo, siempre es concreto. Intentar amar a toda la humanidad puede ser una empresa loable, pero curiosamente se centra en uno mismo, en el bienestar moral y espiritual de uno mismo. Mientras que para amar a una persona concreta, e identificarse con sus esfuerzos y alegrías como si fueran propios, uno tiene que renunciar a una parte de sí.” - Jonathan Franzen

39. “One choice changes everything. The right choice changes your world.” - Beverly S. Harless

40. “The thing was, the places of your life, like the clothes you wore and the car you drove and the friends and associates you had, were a product of the way you lived.” - J.R. Ward

41. “Follow your dreams even when they're out of reach~” - Sean Torres

42. “Give them time to think things over.” - AceQwetyu

43. “Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afghan Hound commanding respect and honor! But if you take the Afghan Hound and lock it in a small cage, shun it and look upon it badly, treat it as a pestilence and wish that it would die; that same creature of beauty will become a vile, unrepentant, dark creature of the shadows! Untrusting, hidden in the corner, aggressive... something that will harm others and yourself! But is this the nature of the creature, is this the fault of the creature? Or are YOU the one who has created the monster that it has become? And this is my philosophy: that we are both corporeal and incorporeal beings, therefore, the same amount of good intent MUST be given to both our soul and our body!” - C. JoyBell C.

44. “Life is a Game you play only once you don't get the second chance and if you get you will never come in the same identity. So perform well.” - Sandeep Kakkar

45. “In the joy of others, lies our own.” - Pramukh Swami Maharaj

46. “you are responsible for you own happiness” - Tshikororo Raymond

47. “Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind.” - Clyde Dsouza

48. “Di dunia ini tidak ada yang instan, semuanya butuh proses dan kerja keras” - Anne ahira

49. “Letting go means wanting to move on so you can live.” - Selena Haskins

50. “sukarnya menjadi seorang anak. membantah dikata tidak mendengar, mengiyakan sahaja hati juga yang parah. di mana mahu diluah resah yang terkumpul, kemana mahu dialirkan jiwa yang sedang luka. kini baru dia sedar betapa payahnya untuk menjaga perasaan.” - Norhayati Berahim

51. “I had to go through hell to get a piece of heaven?” - Nicole Reed