Inspirational Quotes

Words to help you on your journey

© Lori Henry

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Sometimes we need a few words from someone else to get through the day. Here are a few that have motivated me to push on.

"If you want to be yourself as you dream, you have to take out the rubbish that you learned which is not yours."

- Moshe Feldenfrais

"If you've got something to say, say it, and think well of yourself while you're learning to say it better."

- David Mamet

"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."

- Elen Burstyn

"We must be for ourselves in the long run."

- Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights)

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

- Bill Cosby

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"The body is the instrument of the soul."

- Gary Zukav

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

- Anaïs Nin

"If you asked me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you. I CAME TO LIVE OUT LOUD."

- Emile Zola

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.""

- Anonymous

"Imagine."

- John Lennon

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

- Emily Dickinson

"It is the feeling of suffocation that forces us to breathe."

- Moshe Feldenkrais

"If health were our real concern, it would be dieting we question, not weight."

- Sally Tisdale

Share quotes of your own below that help brighten your day.


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Comments
May 14, 2006 10:29 AM
bree toledo :
I found these quotes that I like.

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light"
- Taylor Benson

"Smile, cause you're worth it"
May 15, 2006 7:17 PM
Lori Henry :
Thank you for your quotes, teenager. I hope that you remember them in times of pain.
May 17, 2006 10:03 AM
Lori Henry :
Here's another goody:
"You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."
- Louis L. Hay
May 24, 2006 11:00 AM
sunny monmorre :
I'll have to find some- I know I collected a bunch last year!
Jul 9, 2006 8:57 PM
Lori Henry :
Here's another that I thought was poignant:

“I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.
- Anaïs Nin
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