Inspirational
Quotes - The unreal is more powerful than the real
“When
people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie
Halse Anderson, Speak
“The
unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can
imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies
that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as
fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can
change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the
world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting
thing you can create.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
“The
most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
―
Alice Walker
“Maybe
everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.”
―
Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger
“It
was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a
battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some
people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two
ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce
pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Better
to be strong than pretty and useless.”
―
Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
“The
only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if
we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can
learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if
we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Even
if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
―
Will Rogers
“She
seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the
horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon
meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through
her like a river of blood.
She
only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your
tomorrows start here.”
―
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
“I
have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have
trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air
with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our
flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the
miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going,
but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“It
does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
―
Confucius
“May
the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”
―
George Carlin
“The
worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
―
Bette Midler
“Even
strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
“No
matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history
of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“There
was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
―
Kazuo Ishiguro
“There
are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and
knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
― J.
K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“The
purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out
eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
―
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Nothing
in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a
day.”
―
Paulo Coelho, Brida
“Go
on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
