Quotes to inspire and reflect

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

People who comprehend a thing to its very depths rarely stay faithful to it forever. For they have brought its depths into the light of day: and in the depths there is always much that is unpleasant to see.

I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against passion and your appetite.

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars, but in ourselves if we are underlings.

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Here?s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

If you look after the pennies, the dollars will look after themselves. J.

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - but I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.

Life may change, but it may fly not;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;
Love replused - but it returneth Percy B.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow. H. G.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.

Be still sad heart and cease repining;
Behind the clouds the sun is shining,
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life a little rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus.

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death. T. S.

He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.

He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.

Hate the sin, love the sinner.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

God has always been hard on the poor.

God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

God enters by a private door into every individual.