Inspirational, Motivational and Love Quotes

Most real relationships are involuntary.

Iris Murdoch

Trust that still, small voice that says,
This might work and I will try it.

Diane Mariechild

Young love is when you love someone because of what they do right. Mature love is when you love someone in spite of what they do wrong.

It is always a mistake not to close ones eyes, whether to forgive or to look better into oneself.

There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Elsa Maxwell

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible.

Every now and then take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom, and patience, and solace, and above all the assurance that you are not alone in the world.

We do not know who we are
until we see what we can do.

Martha Grimes

Magic has often been thought of as the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam, To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistencies.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead.

Forgiving those who hurt us
is the key to personal peace.

G. Weatherly

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is rapture in the lonely shore,
there is society where none intrudes,
by the deep sea, and music in its roar;
I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you have imagined!
As you simplify your life,
the laws of the universe will be simpler.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it at the bud.

There is no end. There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of life.

Frederico Fellini

Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves.

Rainer Maria Rilke