Inspiring Quotes

I am not the person who is singing
I am the silent one inside. . . .
I am not my house, my car, my songs
They are only stops along my way. . . .
—Paula Cole, "Me"

It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days,
but revelations, and lavishness of someone's soul inspired, and ablaze.
—Boris Pasternak, poet

I have been running so sweaty my whole life
Urgent for a finish line
And I have been missing the rapture this whole time
Of being forever incomplete
—Alanis Morissette, "Incomplete"

I found out that there
weren't too many limitations,
if I did it my way.
—Johnny Cash,

Forget about good.
Good is a known quantity.
Good is what we all agree on.
As long as you stick to good,
you'll never have real growth.
—Bruce Mau, designer
If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree,
then it better not come at all.
—John Keats
I do not want to be folded
for where I am folded,
there I am a lie.
—Rilke

The need to be normal is the predominant anxiety disorder
in modern life.
—Thomas Moore, Original Self

Whenever there is enthusiasm, there is a creative
empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is
capable of.
—Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering
expresses the great natural potential of mind.
—Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, Tibetan Buddhist lama

The one who asks
questions doesn't lose his way.
—African proverb

When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is the ability to receive
from the universe.
—I Ching

You are what you think about all day.
—Allen Ginsberg