Category: Inspirational quotes

Inspirational quotes

Amanda Bradley – living

“Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!” ~Amanda Bradley

Stella Adler – life

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” ~Stella Adler

Cornelia Funke – women

“Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn’t break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them …

Erich Segal – true love

Strathfield Town Council Hall6 December 2012 “True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.” ~Erich Segal

E. H. Gombrich – thread

“Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.” ~E. H. Gombrich

Harold Wilson – courage

“Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.” ~Harold Wilson

Adele Basheer – truth

“Listen to the sound of your soul. The truth of your destiny lives in your heart.” ~Adele Basheer

Nora Ephron Quotes

“I’m very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.” ~Nora Ephron …

Gabrielle Leblanc – world

“The way we pay attention to the world can make a huge difference in the way we experience it.” ~Gabrielle Leblanc

Andrew Mellen – way of life

“Being organized isn’t about getting rid of everything you own or trying to become a different person; it’s about living the way you want to …

Sarah Hepola – change

“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built brick by brick, every day, with sweat and …

Leon Trotsky Quotes

“In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.” ~Leon Trotsky on Struggle “Old age is the …

Michelle Stacey – activity

“If we looked at eating as an activity to relish rather than as an invitation to gluttony, we’d all be not only healthier but happier.” …

Irwin Edman – reason

“It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.” ~Irwin Edman

Susan Orlean – possibility

“The reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world …

Anne Glusker – state of mind

“When we enter a state of mindful attention, the present moment, the now, eases open. And when it does, life pours in.” ~Anne Glusker

Frederic Chopin – apathy

“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.” ~Frederic Chopin on Apathy

Quotes on Animals

“Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals, is a violation of moral duty.” ~Thomas Paine “For as …

Walter Winchell Quotes

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” ~Walter Winchell “Gossip is the art of saying nothing …

G. C. Lichtenberg – book

“A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to look out.” ~G. C. Lichtenberg

Susan Sarandon – parent

“I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. …

William D. Tammeus – human nature

“You don’t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around – and …

Terry Breverton Quotes

“(For Pythagoras), Mathematics purified the soul along with music, and the two were interconnected.” ~Terry Breverton “Friendship, loyalty and love were nothing more than elaborate …

Thomas Traherne Quotes

Paragon HotelCircular Quay26 November 2012 “The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it.” ~Thomas Traherne “You never enjoy the world …

William Robertson Davies Quotes

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen …