Inspirational Quotes

This list is going to be a work in progress. I will add to it often and sometimes, take away. If you like a particular quote, please feel free to take it and use it. However, I do ask that you give credit to the original author and tell others where you found it.

Thank you. :)

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
~Marianne Williamson~

Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow. ~Rita Schiano, Sweet Bitter Love, 1997, published by The Reed Edwards Company

If tears could build a stairway,
And memories a lane,
I'd walk right up to Heaven
And bring you home again.
~Author Unknown

For some moments in life there are no words. ~David Seltzer, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

"Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone." ~ Louis L'Amour

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." ~Marilyn Monroe

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. ~ Jan Glidewell

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something. They're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. ~ Anthony Robbins

"Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all." ~ Bill Clinton

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate, but through being the right mate. - Barnett R. Brickner

"There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting." ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ~ Carl Sandburg

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.— Dorothy Thompson

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. — A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.— Semisonic, Closing Time

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. — Alice Walker, The Color Purple

In order to get from what was to what will be, you must go through what is. — Anonymous

The most important of life’s battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul. — David O. McKay

I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped. -Fritz Perls

People are often unreasonable and self-centered.
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It never was between you and them anyway.
- Mother Teresa

"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear." Anonymous