Inspirational
Quotes - You will never be able to escape from your heart
“Responsibility
to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming
for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to
purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be
treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that
those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind.
It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an
inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous
delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
Responsibility
to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy
solutions--predigested books and ideas...marrying early as an escape from real
decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It
means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short...and this, in
turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be
nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget
about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. It
means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as
meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means, therefore, the
courage to be "different"...The difference between a life lived
actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an
immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible
to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.”
―
Adrienne Rich
“But
remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
“Man
is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he
does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough
to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he
gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and
the rest he keeps for himself.”
―
George Orwell, Animal Farm
“My
heart is warm with the friends I make,
And
better friends I'll not be knowing,
Yet
there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
No
matter where it's going.”
―
Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry
“Any
emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.”
―
Mark Twain
“You've
got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one
moment, try to hold someone's hand like you will never get another chance to,
look into people's eyes like they're the last you'll ever see, watch someone
sleeping like there's no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you
feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake
like it's the only one left in the world!”
―
C. JoyBell C.
“For
myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
―
Winston S. Churchill
“Make
a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest
thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you
become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“The
strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are
going through their own storm.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“You
will never be able to escape from your heart. So it's better to listen to what
it has to say.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
“Don't
ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.”
―
Robert Frost
“The
surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“But
if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm
going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one
still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods
on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am
the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am
the battlefield.”
―
Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
“Since
I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t
escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend
each other”
―
Veronica Roth
“Those
who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
―
J.M. Barrie
