Quotes on Inspiring

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.

Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

I hoped for something else. It's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

There never was a woman like her. She was gentle as a dove and brave as a lioness... The memory of my mother and her teachings were, after all, the only capital I had to start life with, and on that capital I have made my way.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

The angel personifies something new arising from the deep unconscious.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.