Inspiring Quotes

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.

In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.

People wait around too long for love. I'm happy with all of my lusts!

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it.

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

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

You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.

If you do something that has never been done you will collect treasures that have never been found.

When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.

I don’t want to be a critic of the world. I want to encourage it.

My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

I hope I don't write TOO many books! When I look at authors who have written too many books, I wonder to myself "When did they live?" I certainly want to write BECAUSE I live! I know I don't want to write in order to live! My writing is an overflow of the wine glass of my life, not a basin in which I wash out my ideals and expectations.

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

Just as a painter paints,
and a ponderer ponders,
a writer writes,
and a wanderer wanders.