Min-Quotes: Motivational, Famous and Inspirational Quotes Collection

“No one is ever going to give you something that they’re too afraid to even claim for themselves. People don’t know themselves, so they don’t like to see other people figure it out and live their lives in ways that they themselves cannot. So they try to box you in, and limit you, so they don’t feel inadequate. But you don’t need their approval- the only person who ever, ever limits you is yourself.”

“Destroy what you have become and become what you did destroy/”

“One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.”

“They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn’t play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to one single person. Tragedy is ugly and tangled, stupid and confusing.”

“You were kidnapped not?””I was kidnapped.””You were forced not into marriage?””I was forced into marriage.””You want not an annulment?””I want not an annulment.”

“Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.”

“It is hope–with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet–that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces.”

“Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths… The first kind, they show you life like you want it to be. With villains getting what they deserve and the hero seeing what a fool he’s been and marrying the heroine and happy endings and all that… But the second kind, they show you life more like it is… The first kind makes you cheerful and contented, but the second kind shakes you up.”

“When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.”

“Be the decision, not ego.”

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

“The earth is to be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord”

“Religion is a light bulb, created by man to help him to see in the dark.”

“Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.”

“Jamie: You know what I figured out today?Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I’m sick. To help me through all this. You’re my angel.”