Quotes on Inspirational

Books may well be the only true magic.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH,' the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.