Quotes that Inspire Me

"The only way to learn the difference between self-indulgence and self-kindness is to experience what self-kindness feels like. Declare it 'Be Kind to Me' day, and get out there and start treating yourself as if you deserve every good thing. Because, in fact, you do." - Geneen Roth, The #1 Weight Loss Secret

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." - Douglas Adams

"Somebody somewhere is working with a crew of drunken thieves. But it's not me. They smell of newly mown grass." - Hugh Laurie

"There is no doubt that the life one leads, and the thoughts one thinks are registered plainly in his face." - President Spencer W. Kimball

"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

"There were some roles I really though I could play that they gave to Kevin Spacey, but you know, what the hell." - William H. Macy

"When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue." - Olivia Williams

"Your story? It's not boring and ordinary, by the way. We just get the one life, you know? Just one. You can't live someone else's or think it's more important just because it's more dramatic. What happens matters. Maybe only to us, but it matters." - Ghost Town
 
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear." - Ambrose Redmoon

"Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable." - Joseph B. Wirthlin 

"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own." - Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will. Of course, you must make it up firmly." - L.M. Montgomery, Ann of Green Gables

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.” - Mark Twain

"Not everything comes along just when we want it. There are times when choices just have to be made, or you certainly will miss out." - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.” - T. H. White, The Sword in the Stone

"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away." - Stephen Hawking