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Inspiration is a powerful force that drives creativity, innovation, and personal growth. Throughout history, countless individuals have shared their thoughts on what it means to be inspired and how it fuels action. This collection of quotes highlights the many ways inspiration shapes our lives and encourages us to dream, create, and push beyond our limits.   ◀ Back
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Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
- Ayn Rand
Anthem
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My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
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When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
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To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
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The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.
- Daisaku Ikeda
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I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
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For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
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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
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To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.
- Jocelyn Soriano
Mend My Broken Heart
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
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Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.
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Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
- Og Mandino
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That's everyone's dream, isn't it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.
- Cassandra Clare
Chain of Gold
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Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.
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We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.
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She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
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There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
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Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
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Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.
- Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
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Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
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My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
- Ayn Rand
Anthem
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My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.
- Jocelyn Soriano
Mend My Broken Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
- Og Mandino
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That's everyone's dream, isn't it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.
- Cassandra Clare
Chain of Gold
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.
- Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
- Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
- Ayn Rand
Anthem
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.
- Steve Maraboli
Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.' Once the reason is found, however, one becomes happy automatically. As we see, a human being is not one in pursuit of happiness but rather in search of a reason to become happy, last but not least, through actualizing the potential meaning inherent and dormant in a given situation.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.
- Daisaku Ikeda
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.
- Jocelyn Soriano
Mend My Broken Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
- Henry David Thoreau
I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment.
- Og Mandino
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's everyone's dream, isn't it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.
- Cassandra Clare
Chain of Gold
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.
- John Green
Looking for Alaska
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Of all the wonders that I have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
(Act II, Scene 2)
- William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?"

It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.
- Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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