Min-Quotes: Motivational, Famous and Inspirational Quotes Collection

“Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that helped us feel safe in whatever views or assumptions we are having.”

“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”

“There are no atheists in the foxhole.”

“It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.”

“There’s only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that’s a writer sitting down to write.”

“Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.”

“He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning, a story worth telling. That death will come to them as a dread scholar, a fell knight, a terrible emperor.Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.”

“Two things you will never have to chase: True friends & true love.”

“We always emerge from the death of a loved one like a phoenix arising from its funeral pyre.”

“When you bury seeds you give rise to forests.”

“Write when you can’t stop writing. Read when you stopped writing!”

“The divine laws are quite simple – they state that every ending is the new beginning. This world isn’t ruled only by two forces – the Creation and the Destruction. The third force – Transformation – the force of Nature, exists too, and is, in fact, the blend of the other two.”

“Life’s greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.”

“Only in Russia poetry is respected–it gets people killed.”

“Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?’ She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. ‘It’s apple pie and Mom’s homemade chicken soup. But you didn’t do badly, for a start.”