Quotes on “inspirational”

Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.

All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

Life doesn't just happen to you; youreceive everything in your life based on what you've given.

You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.

First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.