Inspiration Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“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.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

“All that is gold does not glitter.”

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“The Paradoxical Commandments”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.”

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

“We read to know we're not alone.”

“Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case, you fail by default.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”