what are some of you favorite and most inspiring quotes?

Answer 1

Not sure what you are looking for but here are some I have found over time:




~Beautiful~

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive.
There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
- George Elliot

No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
- Unknown

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
- Walt Whitman

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but,
until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
It is the source of all true art and all science.
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause
to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips.
They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image
on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.
- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man
can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what he loves.
- Ernest Renan

We are not powerless specks of dust drifting around in the wind,
blown by random destiny. We are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes unique,
and born for a specific reason and purpose.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross


~12 Steps~

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness;
looking for peace. They chase idle dreams,
addictions, religions, even other people, hoping
to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The
irony is the only place they ever needed to search
was within.
- Ramona L. Anderson

Don't expect to learn about people from books; a
person can't fit in a bookcase.

Ten out of ten people die, so don't take life too
seriously.

When the world comes to an end, it will do so
without my permission.

We're all here because we're not all here.

I need to get the cotton out of my ears and put it
in my mouth.

If you think you're happy, you are. If you think
you're wise, you're not.

Don’t worry be happy.

When I don't have expectations of others, anything
positive they do is a pleasant surprise.

One day at a time.

We cannot control the direction of the wind, but maybe we can adjust our sails.
- Fr. Emmerich Vogt

For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over
time, becomes an addiction... A lot of people
suffer from this disease because negative thinking
is addictive to each of the Big Three -- the mind,
the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get
you, the others are waiting in the wings.
- Peter McWilliams

~Angels~

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden...
it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all,
and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments.
The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief.
It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion
maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow...
Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead."
-David Boreanaz

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
And now these things remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
-Bible - 1 Corinthians 13:1-8, 13

The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly.
-G.K. Chesterton

Most people never have the opportunity to see an angel, or simply do not look well enough
to see them walking amoung us. this, however does not mean they don't exist.
Me, I'm one of the lucky few, not only have I seen an angel, I call her my best friend.
-Lori Corkum

We are, each of us angels with only one wing;
and we can only fly by embracing one another.
-Luciano De Crescenzo

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this
have entertained angels without realizing it.
-Bible - Hebrews 13:2

Angels do find us in our hour of need.
-Amy Huffman

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels.
We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
-Anton Chekov

~Art~

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
- Abraham Moslow

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.
- Robert Toth

Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and
use it in a certain way, and produce art.
- Audre Lorde

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art.
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
- Margot Fonteyn (1919-____) English dancer

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
- Martha Graham

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have
the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist,
the understanding of the philosopher the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the
scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
- Leo Buscaglia

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- G.K. Chesterton

I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing
more truly artistic than to love people.
- Vincent van Gogh

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a
performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
- Louise Nevelson US sculptor, painter

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
- Sunday in the Park with George, by Stephen Sondhiem and James Lapine

~Beauty~

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
- Anonymous

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are
permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty
than logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise
- George Santayana (1863-1952)

Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that
stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness
that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful
conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain
true to them, your world will at last be built
- James Allen

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.
- Anne Frank

People are like stained glass windows -- the true beauty can be seen only when
there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Beauty is in the eye of it's beholder.
- Unknown

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty.
That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.
That's deep enough. What do you want--an adorable pancreas?
- Jean Kerr

The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief
that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul
shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility,
you are not attractive--you are leaking.
- Fran Lebowitz

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
There is really nothing to be said about it.
It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all
- W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development,
invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
- Edgar Allen Poe

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the
spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul
- George Sand

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work.
We must feel and be affected by it.
- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]

The beauty of male has not yet been portrayed by the only one who can do so-the female
- G. C. Lichtenberg

Beauty is only skin deep, but it`s a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense
- Kin Hubbard

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
- Anonymous

Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them,
but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

May the sun bring you new energies by day, may the moon softly restore you by night,
may the rain wash away any worries you may have. May gentle breezes refresh your soul
and all the days of your life, may you walk gently through the world and know its beauty.
- Unknown

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship.
I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings
My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you.
Let us work together for unity and love.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt


~Chocolate~

Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.
--Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) Forrest Gump

Will work for chocolate
--Esther Schindler

Put a smile on your face, make the world a better place.
--Hershey's Chocolate

Life is like a box of chocolates .. full of nuts!
--bumper sticker

All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!
--Lucy Van Pelt (in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz)

Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food.
--Michael Levine, nutrition researcher, as quoted in
The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars

Don't wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty.
Chocolate isn't like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant.
And it always feels good.
--Lora Brody, author of Growing Up on the Chocolate Diet

Nine out of ten people like chocolate. The tenth person always lies..
--John Q. Tullius

I never met a chocolate I didn't like.
--Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation

It's not that chocolates are a substitute for love.
Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is,
let's face it, far more reliable than a man.
--Miranda Ingram

Chocolate is cheaper than therapy and you don't need an appointment.
--Unknown

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces
with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces
--Judith Viorst

Las cosas claras y el chocolate espeso.
(Ideas should be clear and chocolate thick.)
--Spanish proverb

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
--John Milton, The Devils Advocate


~Xander~

I laugh in the face of danger... then I hide until it goes away.
-Xander Harris

People don't fall in love with what's right in front of them. People want the dream --
what they can't have. The more unattainable, the more attractive.
-Xander

~Death~

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Samuel Butler
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather
I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.
Jack Cleary
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
Henry Van Dyke
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.
John Taylor
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
David Sarnoff
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur Schopenhauer
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
William Penn
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
Edvard Munch
Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.
John Muir
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley Montagu
Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
W. Somerset Maugham
A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.
Thomas Mann
Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
Bill Maher
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Death is no more than passing from one room into another.
Helen Keller
You know, I'm inclined to think Lucifer was actually the true creator of humanity. After all, we're most like him.
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You can’t let your heart go bad like sour milk. There is always a chance you’ll want to use it later.
Barbra Kinsolver
The best part about relationships is the kissing. Really its true. You can do that with anyone. So why do girls want so badly that boy to kiss?
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This diva needs her stage, baby lets have fun!
Maureen
I don't own emotion, I rent.
Roger
To going against the grain, going insane, going mad
Mark
Only the good die young.
Angel
Never quit, I follow through.
JoAnn
And all the scares from the Nevers and maybes die
Mimi

Answer 2

These are some of my favorites. I share them on answers nearly every day. I collect poems and quotes. Have you ever noticed the different types of quotes that people choose as their favorite. My husband collects but his are very different from mine. Hope you enjoy them.

“ If you don’t know where your going.
Any road will take you there.”
George Harrison

If you always do what you always did,
you will always get what you always got.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise man grows it under his feet.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom, one helps you make a living,
the other helps you make a life.
James Oppenheim

You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.

If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.
Doug Floyd

Learn to pause . . . or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.

“ If you can read this thank a teacher and since it’s in English, thank a soldier !! ”

Answer 3

I am nothing without my God!

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." -William Shakespeare

"It's not what you do, it' s how much love you put to it that matters." -Mother Theresa

"All our philosophy is dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some acts of living service" -Gandhi

"If people keep telling you that you cannot do a thing, you kind of like to try it."-Margareth Chase Smith

"All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand."- Ella Wilcox

"A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose- a cause to pursue, someone to love and a goal to be achieved." -John Maxwell

"Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves."- Hellen Keller

some of my fave quotes... hope u liked them! have a nice day! (",)

Answer 4

"Anyone can slay a dragon ...but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero." -Brian Andreas “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard “One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud That's three. :P I have a whole Word document of my favorite quotes, lol. (:

Answer 5

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” ~ Tom Krause

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”

“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.” ~ Stephen Kaqqwa

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Andre Gide


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Answer 6

here are some good love quotes......

Admit it. We flirt with each other.
We have so much fun with each other.
We laugh with each other,
and we even try to be with each other.
And I believe that we secretly love each other.
But how come when I think of you
and wonder if you're thinking of me, it feels like you aren't?

Our story will just be one big cliche
the one where my eyes met yours
& you took my breath away

And even though I know it's not true,
I can't help but hope that every time you smile,
make a joke or show off,
that you're doing it for me.

we`re not even a couple, and you
already broke my heart. that says
a lot `'about { * how much * } you
mean to me, & how much i mean
to you, doesn`t it..?

I'll be your tear when you cry,
I'll be your hope when yours has died.
I'll be your words when yours are empty,
I'll be there when you want me to be.
I'll be there when you feel low,
I'll be there when you got nowhere to go.
I'll be there through the storms and the rain,
I'll be there when you feel the pain.
I'll be there when you haven't got a clue,
I'll be there when your sun shines through.
So if you ever need a friend,
Just remember I'll be there until the end.

Today when I felt your arms around me, my world disappeared, and even though I knew it was wrong, I just wanted you to hold me forever

Our memories of yesterday will last a lifetime, we'll take the best, forget the rest, and someday we'll find these are the best of times

Someone asked what I saw in you...my only answer was...everything

You complete me. Really, you do. You can make me smile even when I'm in my worst mood. It's only in your arms that I forget all my troubles, and I have complete happiness. And, you're the only one who can fill that gap in my heart, the space that has come to know you... that place that knows you're the only one for me, that gap that will accept no one but you

Thinking of him is like breathing... It's what you do. You love him every day as naturally as your heart beats. And your family and your friends are ready to send you to the loony bin because either they've stopped believing in love or they forgot what it's like... They don't believe in it, or maybe they don't believe that you're in it. But you do. You know what it's like to be in love: completely full inside, completely happy. Like your whole life this far was really just a preparation for being with him. A collection of heart-breaks and life's lessons leading you into the person you are, the person which perfectly compliments him. The one you love.

Here they go again. The tears they fall. The sleep won’t come. My eyes are red. My heart is sore and my strength's undone. I tried so hard to keep control and make you proud but once again I've lost myself beneath that cloud

And as I stand here looking at you I wonder if there will ever be a day when I get over your smile...when I let go of the hugs you gave me that I continue to feel A day when I forget the words you said to me. Forget what you meant to me or forget how much I love you but no matter what you did to me or whatever happens to us....I know I could never get over let go or forget you

When angels forget how to fly, when it's twenty
below zero in the middle of July, when violets
are red and roses are blue, that's when I'll stop loving you

you`re the reason i wake up
wanting to die & the reason
fall asleep with tears in my eyes

you`re the only one i want to talk to
at the end of the day; that definately
has to mean something

Yeah, I talk to other guys
I laugh with other guys
& I hug other guys
But none of them
will ever mean as much
To me as you do

and it hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time
i want what's yours and i want what's mine
i want you ;; but im not giving in this time

Wait for the guy who'll be your best friend, the person who'll drop everything to be with you at any time of the day no matter what, the guy who makes you smile like no other guy can and when he looks at you.. you know he needs you, the guy who thinks your beautiful even when your hairs a mess and you have no make-up on, the guy who will stay awake just 2 watch you sleep, the one who will call you just to hear your voice, but most of all wait for the guy who'll put you at the center of his universe, because obviously he'll be at the center of yours

My body can change.
my face can change.
my voice can change.
everything can change
except my love for you

You know you are in love
when you see the world in his eyes,
and his eyes everywhere in the world.

I would fly you to the moon and back if you'll be . . . if you'll be my baby.

Answer 7

"Sometimes things happen to you at the time that may seem horrible, painful and unfair, but in reflection you realize that without overcoming those obstacles, you would have never realized your potential, your strength, willpower or your heart."

"Seize the moment, try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it, cuz we consider these moments golden." - eminem

"You have to concentrate on the good things. Life presents as many opportunities for happiness as it does for tragedy." - Giuliani

"Knowledge is gained by learning, trust by doubt, skill by practice, and love by love.

"Talk is cheap. "

"you cant help a person who doesnt want to help themselves. "

"what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger in the end"

"Good byes make you think, they make you realize what you've had, what you've lost and what meaning it is. "

"EVERYTHING happens for a reason."

Answer 8

This one is "borrowed," but -- my very own personal Favorite Quote is -- "Life Is Nothing Without Friendship."

Answer 9

"The surest way to fail is to try and please everyone"-
I've heard this was Bill Cosby

"Give me the benefit of your convictions if you have any, but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have plenty enough of my own"
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe German philosopher, statesman

"The heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained in sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, toiled upward in the night"
Longfellow

"badges, we don't need no stinking badges"
Treasure of the Sierra Madre movie w/ Humphrey Bogart

"what seemed like a good idea at the time, was perhaps in retrospect....."
Me explaining something stupid I did to my boss on several occasions

Answer 10

"We cannot guarantee success, but we can do more...we can deserve it"

"we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Answer 11

Best quote ever- "I do not know what WW3 will be fought with, but I know what WW4 will be fought with, sticks and stones - Albert Einstein