Quotes on Inspirational

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

Despite all philosophical differences, all major world religions have the same potential to create good human beings.

Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

One of the few things I know about writing is this: Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book, give it, give it all, give it now.

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

The animal should not be measured by man. In a world older than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the sense we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear.

All we got is the family unbroke.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

Tears are words that need to be written.

When you translate the Bible with excessive literalism, you demythologize it. The possibility of a convincing reference to the individual's own spiritual experience is lost. (111)

With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.