I can count how many fictional books I have read in my lifetime; most were required for literature courses.
I'm an unashamed, self-proclaimed nerd! Especially for any type of non-fictional text; primarily history, philosophy, poetry, or people's personal life stories of survival and overcoming personal challenges.
There are many inspirational quotes that have served as a net through my own personal life-changing events. Perhaps I will expand on each quote someday. I hope they encourage and give you strength through your own personal pilgrimage.
- "Writing is prayer" - Reb Buxton
- "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare (Hamlet)
- "Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change." - Brené Brown
- "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide
- "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." - Kahlil Gibran
- "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
- "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." - Maya Angelou
- "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning." - Einstein
- "I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine." - Elizabeth Gilbert
- "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung
- "We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Jonathan Swift
- Who am I? (I don't know.) I guess I have a lot of things to ponder." - Derek Zoolander
- "Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs
- "A man who does not think for himself, does not think at all." - Oscar Wilde
- "God has no religion." - Mahatma Gandhi
- "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth." - Albert Einstein
- "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso
- "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi
- "You have come to fight as free men, and free men you are. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight? Aye, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!" - William Wallace (Braveheart)
