92 Beautiful Inspirational Quotes

In a world that often feels fast-paced and demanding, taking a moment to pause and find inspiration can be incredibly refreshing. Whether you're seeking motivation to tackle challenges, solace in times of uncertainty, or a spark of creativity, the power of a few carefully chosen words should not be underestimated. This is why we've gathered a curated collection of the top 92 beautiful inspirational quotes, each one selected for its ability to uplift the soul and ignite the spirit. Let these quotes serve as gentle reminders of the strength, hope, and beauty that reside within and around us, guiding you toward a more inspired and fulfilled life.

1. “His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.” - Flannery O'Connor

2. “Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.” - John Steinbeck

3. “Oleander time, she said. Lovers who kill each other now will blame it on the wind. ” - Janet Fitch

4. “There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn't remember what the sky looked like. But I didn't die. I was lost to a sea of cold, and then I was reborn into a world of warmth.” - Maggie Stiefvater

5. “I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.” - William Butler Yeats

6. “Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?” - Andrew Clements

7. “Every moment is beautiful; delicious even!” - Alicia Keys

8. “She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.” - William Shakespeare

9. “Relax. You are beautiful, and everyone wants some of that beauty.” - Julie Metz

10. “Shimamoto was in charge of the records. She'd take one from its jacket, place it carefully on the turntable without touching the grooves with her fingers, and, after making sure to brush the cartridge free of any dust with a tiny brush, lower the needle ever so gently onto the record. When the record was finished, she'd spray it and wipe it with a felt cloth. Finally she'd return the record to its jacket and its proper place on the shelf. Her father had taught her this procedure, and she followed his instructions with a terribly serious look on her face, her eyes narrowed, her breath held in check. Meanwhile, I was on the sofa, watching her every move. Only when the record was safely back on the shelf did she turn to me and give a little smile. And every time, this thought hit me: It wasn't a record she was handling. It was a fragile soul inside a glass bottle.” - Haruki Murakami

11. “At this the Wart's eyes grew rounder and rounder, until they were about as big as the owl's who was sitting on his shoulder, and his face got redder and redder, and a breath seemed to gather itself beneath his heart.” - T.H. White

12. “...But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet...” - Anna Gavalda

13. “You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur” - Karl Lagerfeld

14. “Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs” - Karl Lagerfeld

15. “A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul” - Karl Lagerfeld

16. “Live it well and this life can be grand.” - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

17. “There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.” - Steve Maraboli

18. “There was a beautiful time...” - Sylvia Plath

19. “His skin was a pretty colour, it made me jealous. Jacob noticed my scrutiny.What?" he asked, suddenly self-conscious."Nothing. I just hadn't realised before. Did you know, you're sort of beautiful?"Once the words slipped out, I worried that he might take my implusive observation the wrong way.But Jacob rolled his eyes. "You hit your head pretty hard, didn't you?" "I'm serious."Well, then, thanks. Sort of."I grinned. "You're sort of welcome.” - Stephenie Meyer

20. “He reached up t0 grab one and came down with several, and they kept coming, washing over him, floating all around him. Never have tampon strings seemed so beautiful as they rolled up and down with the wind, landing on the ground and then twirling and floating up again, falling and rising and falling and rising.” - John Green

21. “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.” - Bob Dylan

22. “Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.” - Tacitus

23. “...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.” - Jack Kerouac

24. “When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played in our mind. In harmony, both create a beautiful symphony of life.” - Toba Beta

25. “Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa.""What does it mean?""You're beautiful.” - Simone Elkeles

26. “Don't let them say you ain't beautiful. They can all get fu#ked just stay true to you.” - Eminem

27. “My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.” - Robert Frost

28. “And like flowers in the fields, that make wonderful views, when we stand side-by-side in our wonderful hues..We all make a beauty so wonderfully true.We are special and different, and just the same, too!So whenever you look at your beautiful skin, from your wiggling toes to your giggling grin...Think how lucky you are that the skin you live in, so beautifully holds the "You" who's within.” - Michael Tyler

29. “I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.” - Natalie Lloyd

30. “You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem.” - Janet Fitch

31. “I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.” - Tahereh Mafi

32. “Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.” - Kurt Vonnegut

33. “If someone tells you you're not beautiful, turn around and walk away so they canhave a great view of your fabulous ass.” - Miley Cyrus

34. “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

35. “For reasons he couldn’t understand a sadness came over him and it was then he saw the girl standing on the other side of the dirt road, her eyes pools of absolute sorrow, her light brown hair glowing in the splinters of sunlight that forced their way through the trees.” - Melina Marchetta

36. “What would you do if I kissed you right now?"I stared at his beautiful face and his beautiful mouth and I wanted nothing more than to taste it. "I would kiss you back.” - Michelle Hodkin

37. “Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.” - Erica Bauermeister

38. “It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

39. “And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.” - John Connolly

40. “I go out on the porch and gaze up at the stars twinkling above, the random scattering of millions of stars. Even in a planetarium you wouldn't find as many. Some of them really look big and distinct, like if you reached your hand out intently you could touch them. The whole thing is breathtaking. Not just beautiful though--the stars like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. What I've done up till now, what I'm going to do--they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. As I sit there under the shining night sky, again a violent fear takes hold of me. My heart's pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these millions of stars looking down on me, and I've never given them more than a passing thought before. Bot just stars--how many other things haven't I noticed in the world, things I know nothing about? I suddenly feel helpless, completely powerless. And I know I'll never outrun that awful feeling. (135)” - Haruki Murakami

41. “A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret suffrings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music. People corwd around the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.” - Soren Kieekegaard

42. “Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.” - Ann Brashares

43. “He continued to stare out the window. "I meant what I said before. You need to walk away, Pidge. God knows I can't walk away from you.” - Jamie McGuire

44. “Then the other door opened. I wen't rigid. If I had thought Reth's was beautiful, it was nothing to this soul. It filled the night with light, dancing and rippling like the reflection on a pond. I hadn't seen many souls, but I knew this one was special. I wanted it. I needed it.” - Kiersten White

45. “When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezeway, one sad, swollen eye looking back toward the sea.” - Dennis Lehane

46. “Failure is not the end. In fact it is the beginning of a beautiful journey.” - Jade Youssef

47. “When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.” - Akhenaton

48. “We are wolves, which are wild dogs, and this is our place in the city. We are small and our house is small on our small urban street. We can see the city and the train line and it's beautiful in its own dangerous way. Dangerous because it's shared and taken and fought for.That's the best way I can put it, and thinking about it, when I walk past the tiny houses on our street, I wonder about the stories inside them. I wonder hard, because houses must have walls and rooftops for a reason. My only query is the windows. Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out?” - Markus Zusak

49. “Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!” - Mehmet Murat ildan

50. “Peeta" I said "Stay with me"I heard him say one word before the drigs pulled me under, I realised later that what he said was 'always” - Suzanne Collins

51. “Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic.” - Richard Halliburton

52. “I would stand there at times and remember how beautiful God created this world, and then I would be reassured that he would certainly take care of me and all of my loved ones.” - Diet Eman

53. “A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite distance-it died. The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept.” - Charlotte Brontë

54. “As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally agreed that she was "ugly beautiful".Tiger Lily pretended she hadn't heard, but her heart slowed to absorb the blow.” - Jodi Lynn Anderson

55. “Joshua?" I called out, a slight hitch in my voice. "Yeah?" "What do I look like to you?" He tilted his head to the side, frowning. "What do I look like to you?" I repeated urgently, afraid that if I didn't talk fast enough, I would have time to realize how absolutely, mind-bogglingly stupid I sounded. Joshua smiled. He answered me, so quietly I almost couldn't hear him. "Beautiful. Too beautiful for people not to have noticed you the other night.” - Tara Hudson

56. “At the base of the immense pillar, tiny Babylon was in shadow. Then the darkness climbed the tower, like a canopy unfurling upward. It moved slowly enough that Hillalum felt he could count the moments passing, but then it grew faster as it approached, until it raced past them faster than he could blink, and they were in twilight... For the first time, he knew night for what it was: the shadow of the earth itself, cast against the sky.” - Ted Chiang

57. “The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.” - Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe

58. “My mind is a warehouse of carefully organized human emotions.I lock away the things that do not serve me.” - Tahereh Mafi

59. “The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.“Well,” said Jack at last. “What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?”“Yes!” whispered all the children.“Let’s!” - Enid Blyton

60. “Stella scribbledin thick black textaacross half the pagesof my best storybook,filled with people who venturedwhere their hearts took them.Beautiful worlds beyond mine.” - Emma Cameron

61. “You are only as beautiful as your last action ...” - Stephen Richards

62. “Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go. Just to be safe, she told herself. Still, it was nice the way her pelvic bones rose like sharp hills on either side of her stomach. I love bones. Bones are beautiful.” - Steven Levenkron

63. “The need in me beautiful is to look back on you forever!!” - Abhijeet Sawant

64. “[I]t is that we are too apt to despise what appears to be neither good nor beautiful, and thus we lose what is helpful and salutary.” - George Sand

65. “God knows we’re all drawn toward what’s beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it’s only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.” - Cassandra Clare

66. “It’s weird like, you can see the cruelest part of the world. The cruelest part. But then on the other side you see the most beautiful part, do you know? And it’s like you go from one extreme to the next and they’re both worth it, because you wouldn’t see one without the other. But that cruel part, is damn cruel and you’ll never forget it. But that heaven…is heaven.” - Britney Spears

67. “Och, Sarah, how shall I call augh’ beautiful again unless it be the sight of you?” - Pamela Clare

68. “I think she is beautiful, but in a way that is not friendly, like in a way that just makes me want her to be mine.” - abraham m. alghanem

69. “You’re incredibly brave. And you’re going to make it through this because you have a very strong heart. A heart that is capable of loving so much about life and people in a way you never dreamt a heart could love. And you’re beautiful in here. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.” - Colleen Hoover

70. “The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.” - George Orwell

71. “It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.” - Dejan Stojanovic

72. “True beauty express itself automatically. It's not only visible in the material, but around one's being, and within their aura. I once met a female, who was like that of a jeweled flower. Her celestial atmosphere and genuine conception could not separate from the true expression of the definition of beauty.” - Lionel Suggs

73. “While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.” - Dejan Stojanovic

74. “Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly.” - Sara Quin

75. “This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!” - Friedrich Nietzsche

76. “He’d lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she’d been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.” - Susan Elizabeth Phillips

77. “Hewas beautiful. I know, it’s not the manliest way to describe a guy, but inmy head, it was the adjective I used most often and it fit him to a tee.” - S.C. Stephens

78. “We celebrate beauty in life and all its possibility so we open it up for others and at the same time for ourselves.” - jay woodman

79. “My experiences remind me that it's those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.” - Kelly Clarkson

80. “I'll think about you every day. Part of me is scared that there will come a time when you don't feel the same way,that you'll somehow forget what we shared, so this is what I want to do. Wherever you are and no matter what's going on in your life, when it's the first night of the full moon-like it was the first time we met-I want you to find it in the nighttime sky. I want you to think about me and the week we shared, because wherever I am and no matter what's going on in my life, that's exactly what I'll be doing. If we can't be together, at least we can share that, and maybe between the two of us, we can make it last forever.” - Nicholas Sparks

81. “Man vill bli älskad, i brist därpå beundrad, i brist därpå fruktad, i brist därpå avskydd och föraktad. Man vill ingiva människorna något slags känsla. Själen ryser för tomrummet och vill kontakt till vad pris som helst.” - Hjalmar Söderberg

82. “Beautiful breezes in ugly parts of town give hope to those who want to be free.” - Darnell Lamont Walker

83. “I saw a woman who physically and spiritually blocked out the definition of being celestial, and replaced it with her own divine beauty. She was transcendent. She was beyond astonishing in her presence. But what she truly did, which was beyond the scope of an average woman's power, was step above the barriers of reality and illusion with her pure, majestic, and omnipotent beauty.” - Lionel Suggs

84. “One by one the angels had come to the top of Har Megiddo where I sat, holding her body close to mine after she'd died. I'd fought alongside them in battle, but up close, when they stood quietly watching us, they looked as beautiful as they looked unreal. the angels weren't supposed to feel emotions, but they were all weeping. All of them. Their tear stained their flawless faces like rain running in rivulets across stone. Azrael was the only one of then who came to me, knelt in front of me and took her from my arms. He was the angel of death come to carry his sister home. I din't want to give her up, knowing it would be the last time I ever saw her face. I had died on that wretched hill with her.” - Courtney Allison Moulton

85. “She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.” - Jodi Picoult

86. “To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.” - Johann Gottfried Herder

87. “She is so beautiful. Perfect. Mine.No. Not mine. I am hers.” - Stacey Jay

88. “Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear; one publicly known to have been troubled but be on the mend, the other who has privately lost something to do with innocence and gained something to do with knowledge and adulthood that can never be undone. I feel sometimes there are things that tear me in two directions, that there are two sets of thoughts that grow side by side. But then I realize that I am whole, whatever that means and does not mean; I am complete without the need for additions or alteration.” - Abigail Tarttelin

89. “But I never just quite liked that ryhme.''Why not, child?''Because it seems to say one's as good as another, or two new ones are better than one that's lost. . . . Somehow, when once you've looked into anybody's eyes, right deep down into them, I mean, nobody will do for that one any more. Nobody, ever so beautiful or so good, will make up for that one going out of sight.” - George MacDonald

90. “Love is a gamble and sometimes it hurts, but whether you win or lose being in love is a beautiful thing.” - M.J. Abraham

91. “la felicidad siempre tiene un objeto, somo felices por algo,es un sentimiento cuya existencia depende del exterior. La alegría, en cambio, no tiene objeto. Te posee sin ningún motivo aparente, en su esencia se parece al sol: arde gracias a la combustión de su propio corazón.” - Susanna Tamaro

92. “Love makes people beautiful, beautiful in the fact that those who are stricken by love become blind. Not being able to see the evils and pain in the world, that's the part that makes people beautiful on the inside.” - Shannan Jacoby