Min-Quotes: Motivational, Famous and Inspirational Quotes Collection

“La educacion es el progresivo descubrimiento de nuestra propia ignorancia.”

“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.”

“Each new breath is an opportunity to try againDon’t hide from life.Whatever happens we are far greater than any problem that we are facing.Look around you,You see the sky, the flowers, the beauty, the people, absolutely everything around you Is showing you that you are still alive, And that you are still needed here.”

“To lose heart is to lose hope.”

“We live in this world full of surprises and sacrifices. No matter how hard you tried to please others, there’s something that they might say about you, whether it is good or bad. And yet, stay humble.”

“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”

“Pour être bien dans son appel il faut être bien dans son identité!”

“Truth is the ultimate religion.”

“Don’t look so worried. Most successful missions are just a series of barely averted disasters.”

“Hope is a horrible thing, you know. It’s a plague. It’s like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and someone just keep pulling it and pulling it.”STATE OF WONDER”

“Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when they compose. That we are not really in control. This is a variation on that twee little fable that writers like to pass off on gullible readers, that a character can develop a will of his own and ‘take over a book.’ This makes writing sound supernatural and mysterious, like possession by faeries. The reality tends to involve a spare room, a pirated copy of MS Word, and a table bought on sale at Target. A character can no more take over your novel than an eggplant and a jar of cumin can take over your kitchen.”

“belief is the death of intelligence.”

“The religious school she went to, growing up, Ms. Wright said how all the girls had to wear a scarf tied to cover their ears at all times. Based on the biblical idea that the Virgin Mary became pregnant when the Holy Spirit whispered in her ear. The idea that ears were vaginas. That, hearing just one wrong idea, you lost your innocence. One detail too many and you’d be ruined. Overdosed on information.”

“It takes wisdom, power and influence to be able to make a positive impact on what goes on in society and in the nation as a whole.”

“JapanToday I pass the time readinga favorite haiku,saying the few words over and over.It feels like eatingthe same small, perfect grapeagain and again.I walk through the house reciting itand leave its letters fallingthrough the air of every room.I stand by the big silence of the piano and say it.I say it in front of a painting of the sea.I tap out its rhythm on an empty shelf.I listen to myself saying it,then I say it without listening,then I hear it without saying it.And when the dog looks up at me,I kneel down on the floorand whisper it into each of his long white ears.It’s the one about the one-tontemple bellwith the moth sleeping on its surface,and every time I say it, I feel the excruciatingpressure of the mothon the surface of the iron bell.When I say it at the window,the bell is the worldand I am the moth resting there.When I say it into the mirror,I am the heavy belland the moth is life with its papery wings.And later, when I say it to you in the dark,you are the bell,and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,and the moth has flownfrom its lineand moves like a hinge in the air above our bed.”