67 Inspiring Kindle Highlight Quotes

In our fast-paced digital age, finding snippets of inspiration can transform a moment, a mood, or even an entire day. Kindle users, with their passion for exploration and knowledge, often underline the sentences and paragraphs that resonate most deeply with them. These highlighted quotes become a tapestry of wisdom, sparking reflection and insight. In this carefully curated selection, we have gathered the top 67 most inspiring Kindle highlights, covering a diverse range of topics from resilience to creativity. Each quote offers a spark of motivation, encouraging you to pause, ponder, and perhaps see the world through a slightly different lens. Join us as we delve into these standout snippets, which have captivated countless readers around the globe.

1. “The town stood witness to her fall As she crashed to the earth Exposed and utterly vulnerable Her secret lives, lies and truths Stained her skin and lay in mounds at her feet Her foes sat in judgment as a jury, But love came . . . with gentle hands Love dried her tears Love covered her shame Love sheltered her with compassion Love accepted her anyway Love embraced her Love welcomed her home.” - Deborah Grace Staley

2. “Shivering as she gripped the handle, she looked around the cabin one last time. The uneasiness was still there. Why wouldn’t it leave her be?” - Deborah Grace Staley

3. “But Marisa already knew the answer and it was too late for recrimination. The chance of even a rational discussion of the problem was forever shut out of Mama’s brain. A brutal bastard was steadily sucking the intelligence and the very life from the mother who had once been witty, wise and loving. The scourge had a name Marisa had come to equate with hell: Alzheimer’s Disease.” - Anna Jeffrey

4. “At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.” - Leo Tolstoy

5. “because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly” - Laura Miller

6. “God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. A sense of destiny is our birthright as followers of Christ. God is awfully good at getting us where He wants us to go. But here’s the catch: The right place often seems like the wrong place, and the right time often seems like the wrong time.” - Mark Batterson

7. “The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors” - Sebastian Junger

8. “nothing knee-jerk about their politics. Two out of three of them say that abortion is “always” or “usually” morally wrong. They are far more likely than voters age thirty and over to identify themselves as politically “strictly independent.” In fact, more than any other generation I’ve tracked in my polling, Globals seem determined to find a middle ground on the hot-button issues of the day and to decide each one on a case by case basis, not because their party leaders are urging them in one direction or the other. I like to tell audiences that while First Globals might not be more...” - John Zogby

9. “For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his shirt and pulled him toward her. His arms went around her, lifting her almost out of her sandals, and then he was kissing her—or she was kissing him, she wasn’t sure, and it didn’t matter. The feel of his mouth on hers was electric; her hands gripped his arms, pulling him hard against her. The feel of his heart pounding through his shirt made her dizzy with joy. No one else’s heart beat like Jace’s did, or ever could.” - Cassandra Clare

10. “Von gesellschaftlicher Annäherung konnte nicht die Rede sein, menschliche Qualität wurde nicht einmal erwogen, Geist oder auch nur jede originelle Form der Äußerung erweckte sofort Argwohn, Beförderung über eine zugestandene Grenze hinaus kam nicht in Frage, alles, weil die bürgerliche Legitimation unter der Rubrik Glaubensbekenntnis die Bezeichnung Jude trug. Aber” - Jakob Wassermann

11. “The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit however, can suffocate.” - Brandon Sanderson

12. “Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library.  This book I had again and again perused with delight. ” - Charlotte Brontë

13. “The problem with abstractions (like reports and documents) is that they create illusions of agreement. A hundred people can read the same words, but in their heads, they’re imagining a hundred different things.” - Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

14. “I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.” - Jerome K. Jerome

15. “money I could hardly think of it. “Go on, take it.” - Patrick Rothfuss

16. “What do you know of poetry?” Ambrose said without bothering to turn around. “I know a limping verse when I hear it,” I said. “But this isn’t even limping. A limp has rhythm. This is more like someone falling down a set of stairs. Uneven stairs. With a midden at the bottom.” “It is a sprung rhythm,” he said, his voice stiff and offended. “I wouldn’t expect you to understand.” “Sprung?” I burst out with an incredulous laugh. “I understand that if I saw a horse with a leg this badly ‘sprung,’ I’d kill it out of mercy, then burn its poor corpse for fear the local dogs might gnaw on it and die.” - Patrick Rothfuss

17. “Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,” - William J. Bennett

18. “Not darkness, for that implies an understanding of light. Not silence, for that suggests a familiarity with sound. Not loneliness, for that requires knowledge of others. But still, faintly, so tenuous that if it were any less it wouldn’t exist at all: awareness. Nothing more than that. Just awareness—a vague, ethereal sense of being. Being . . . but not becoming. No marking of time, no past or future—only an endless, featureless now, and, just barely there in that boundless moment, inchoate and raw, the dawning of perception . . .” - Robert J. Sawyer

19. “The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.” - Robert J. Sawyer

20. “Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.” - Robert J. Sawyer

21. “Zawinski: Sometimes. I end up doing all the sysadmin crap, which I can't stand-I've never liked it. I enjoy working on XScreenSaver because in some ways screen savers-the actual display modes rather than the XScreenSaver framework-are the perfect program because they almost always start from scratch and they do something pretty and there's never a version 2.0. There's very rarely a bug in a screen saver. It crashes-oh, there's a divide-by-zero and you fix that.” - Peter Seibel

22. “Even if we act to erase material poverty, there is another greater task; it is to confront the poverty of satisfaction – purpose and dignity – that afflicts us all. Too much and for too long, we seemed to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion a year, but that Gross National Product … counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for the people who break them. It counts...” - Nic Marks

23. “I don’t know what boldness came over me, but the resolute heaviness of Dash’s demeanor threatened to crush my soul. My pinky finger crept over and nestled against his, for comfort. Like a magnet, his pinky finger latched onto and intertwined with mine. I like magnets a whole lot.” - David Levithan

24. “I think if a man beats you and fucks half the women he sees and no one will help you, axing him isn’t the least understandable thing you can do.” - Dennis Lehane

25. “Recovering Leah knows fear stands for false expectations appearing real.” - Christa Allan

26. “As we admit our inadequacy to run the race alone and accept God's gracious redemption, then the race begins to have meaning, validity, and most of all, freedom.” - Cynthia Heald

27. “When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket I throw the item away. This is a good system since eventually I end up only with clothes that don’t need ironing.” - Janet Evanovich

28. “Mark my words—you will come some day to a craggy pass in the channel, where the whole of life’s stream will be broken up into whirl and tumult, foam and noise: either you will be dashed to atoms on crag points, or lifted up and borne on by some master-wave into a calmer current—as I am now.” - Charlotte Brontë

29. “The student asks: If my redstone necklace had every view of every veil that ever brightened, would I be wise? The master answers: If I had a thousand pieces of a priceless vase, would I be rich?” - Kay Kenyon

30. “What the Didache doesn’t say is that the community should shun or excommunicate those who commit the forbidden sins. In fact, “correct some, pray for others, and some you should love more than your own life” makes plain that the worst sinners should be showered with the most love.” - Tony Jones

31. “for God's sake, let's be done with the hypocrisy of claiming "I am a biblical literalist" when everyone is a selective literalist, especially those who swear by the antihomosexual laws in the Book of Leviticus and then feast on barbecued ribs and delight in Monday-night football, for it is toevali, an abomination, not only to eat pork but merely to touch the skin of a dead pig.” - Walter Wink

32. “removed an inch long section. She almost called Dr. Sears, but” - Todd Russell

33. “Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of the might within the land, bearers of a spark from the sacred fire.” - Joseph Conrad

34. “Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.” - Matt Taibbi

35. “He tried to read, but the words swam in front of his eyes in meaningless waves. He put on the television. Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.” - Harlan Coben

36. “Lore: Making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!” - Wil Wheaton

37. “I remembered seeing a media channel where they showed picture after picture of food items I had never seen before in my life. When I asked my father what it was, he said they called it the “Two Minutes’ Hate.” - Project Itoh

38. “Where some see a new world disorder, others see the opportunity to bring organization.” - Jeff Jarvis

39. “He hadn’t altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.” - Rebecca Goldstein

40. “Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.” - Frank Herbert

41. “With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be With every single fiber of her soul, she wanted to be” - Raeanne Thayne

42. “task not unlike coming to grips with the Holy Ghost.' There” - Pierangelo Isernia

43. “They’re both bungholes who think they’re too noble to shit,” - George R.R. Martin

44. “As the wine went down in the bottles, patriotism arose in the three men. And when the wine was gone they went down the hill arm in arm for comradeship and safety, and they walked into Monterey. In front of an enlistment station they cheered loudly for America and dared Germany to do her worst. They howled menaces at the German Empire until the enlistment sergeant awakened and put on his uniform and came into the street to silence them. He remained to enlist them.” - John Steinbeck

45. “You keep out of my bed,” said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence.” - John Steinbeck

46. “He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.” - Amanda Hocking

47. “It is an emotional and an enchanted place. If the study of the conscious mind highlights the importance of reason and analysis, study of the unconscious mind highlights the importance of passions and perception.” - David Brooks

48. “Ultimately, the purpose of a certification is to establish a particular level of proficiency in a discipline. Unfortunately, “social media” in and of itself, is not a discipline. Digital crisis management, on the other hand, is. So are digital customer service and online community management. This means that a certification program that focuses on social media without addressing each specific business function adapted to social media won’t end up certifying anyone in much of anything.” - Olivier Blanchard

49. “It’s okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does.” - Seth Godin

50. “But bringing people together is what music has always done best.” - Rob Sheffield

51. “When I first learned to drive and I bought petrol I went to great lengths to trickle the final drops into the petrol tank so it cost a round amount of money like £10. Now I try and spend £19.87 or £20.04 or some other amount that I hope will disturb the cashier’s sense of neatness and uniformity.” - Helen Smith

52. “That’s right,” I said. “Grand and complex. You say love because people believe in the word, it has a shared meaning and demands respect. It makes the strength stronger. But the strength can be unpredictable, it can gain a life of its own and turn on itself enough to make love into something too strong, this massive force. Something horrifying, brief flashes, this same strength.” - Kyle Beachy

53. “Almost everybody I know has died,” Grandma said. “Bunch of wimps.” - Janet Evanovich

54. “Tastykakes are just another of the many advantages of living in Jersey. They’re made in Philly and shipped to Trenton in all their fresh squishiness. I read once that 439,000 Butterscotch Krimpets are baked every day. And not a heck of a lot of them find their way to New Hampshire. All that snow and scenery and what good does it do you without Tastykakes?” - Janet Evanovich

55. “I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you’re bent over about the color, don’t leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.” - Janet Evanovich

56. “I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance…and if you have anxiety about initiating a project, then of course you will associate risk with failure.” - Seth Godin

57. “Though you see nothing, he is acting.” - Max Lucado

58. “They believed that if a mouse found your hair clippings and built a nest with them you got a headache. If the nest was big enough, you might go mad.” - Jeanette Winterson

59. “Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in a long line of narratives—not just novels, but narratives generally—since humans began telling stories to themselves and each other.” - Thomas C. Foster

60. “Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.” - Paul Miller

61. “I thought, Hey, maybe these people shouldn’t be making up holidays to drink more. Maybe if they drank less they might be able to title their newspaper articles more specifically. For example, I would title this last article “Drunk Driver Hits Drunk Walker Drunkety-Drunk I’m So Drunk.” - Mike Birbiglia

62. “Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics.” - Daniel H. Pink

63. “Zijn Hervormde Kerk gaat ervan uit dat het maar een hele smalle weg is die rechtstreeks naar de hemel voert. Een bestaan van soberheid, hard werken en veel bidden. In zijn geloof is er geen wisselgeld voor begane zonden. Geen gemarchandeer of onderhandelingen, alleen de kale feiten tellen.” - Judy Lohman

64. “with a touch of sarcasm. “Glass is an amazing material. Versatile,” - Maria V. Snyder

65. “Look at Rose Bertin. From an ordinary seamstress to the milliner” - Michelle Moran

66. “A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.” - Robert B. Cialdini

67. “Lobster-both-ways is popular tonight. The preparation is easy enough. Take a two-pound lobster. Kill it with a sharp chef’s knife straight between the eyes. Remove the claw and knuckle meat. Steam for five minutes, chop into salad with aioli, celery, and lots of shallots and chives. Chill. Reserve the tail until ordered. Paint with herb-infused oil, season with kosher salt and fresh ground pepper, grill for two or three minutes until it’s just cooked through. Serve with spicy organic greens.” - Graydon Carter