Inspirational Quotes - Page 15

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see.

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.

Things do not change; we change.