Inspiring Quotes - Page 24

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.

Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

It only seems impossible until it's done.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!

A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.

I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant.

If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.

I had no epiphany, no singular revelation, no moment of truth, but a steady accumulation of a thousand slights, a thousand indignities and a thousand unremembered moments produced in me an anger, a rebelliousness, a desire to fight the system that imprisoned my people. There was no particular day on which I said, Henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.