Min-Quotes: Motivational, Famous and Inspirational Quotes Collection

“The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.”

“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can’t love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”

“It is the investment of time into perfecting a skill or skills that gives birth to celebrities, billionaires, inventors, entrepreneurs, Olympic gold medalists and so on”

“I give you the end of a golden string,Only wind it into a ball,It will lead you in at Heaven’s gateBuilt in Jerusalem’s wall.”

“Life will always throw you curveballs. Some of them you duck and some you cannot. Accept Life for what it is, yet realize some of those balls You had to get hit with in order for you to learn, hurt, heal and grow.”

“The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.”

“Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep…slow…breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands.”

“It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn’t Hegbert who taught me.”

“Listen, we’ll come visit you. Okay? I’ll dress up as William Shakespeare, Lucent as Emily Dickinson, and beautiful ‘Ray’ as someone dashing and manly like Jules Verne or Ernest Hemingway…and we’ll write on your white-room walls. We’ll write you out of your supposed insanity. I love you, Micky Affias.-James (from “Descendants of the Eminent”)”

“I died. I died and someone made a clerical error and I am in Heaven.”

“As for Gussie Finknottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.”

“There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.”

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

“As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.”

“The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don’t necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.”