Motivational and Inspirational Quotes

"I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.... People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back."

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go."

"The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it."

"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."

"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it."

"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course."

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

"The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do."

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!"