Inspiration from the Uninspired

I have always had a love affair with inspirational quotes. It's funny, because I'm not one of those people who remembers them at just the right opportunity when I need inspiration during a trying situation. All the same, it's short poetry, and I appreciate the wit that makes you sit back and say, "Wow, that's so true." Here are some of my favorites:

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
-Arlo Guthrie

The reason we have two ears and only one mouth, is that we may hear more and speak less.
-Zeno

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
-Isaac Asimov

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
-Joe Ancis

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.
-Reverend Edward A. Malloy, Monk's Reflections

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
-Dale Carnegie

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
-Helena Rubenstein

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
-Mother Teresa

Whatever God's dream about man may be, it seems certain it cannot come true unless man cooperates.
-Stella Terrill Mann

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.
-William Dement

Our Father refreshes our journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake them for home.
-Unknown

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
-E.E. Cummings

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most, although, up to now, they have been the most intolerant of all men.
–Voltaire

If you're not a liberal by twenty, you don't have a heart; if you're not a conservative by fourty, you don't have a brain.
-Winston Churchill

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
-James Baldwin


I hope you pondered, nodded your head, or at least smiled at a few of these. They are windows into my personal battles and joys, and if you relate to any of them, I guess we can be satisfied in knowing that we are not alone.

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