Inspirational Quotes on Life

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.”

“There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.”

“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.”

“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.”

“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”

“Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.”

“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”

“Life is half spent before we know what it is.”

“Living well is the best revenge.”

“Night is the mother of counsels.”

“Time is the rider that breaks youth.”

“I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.”

“Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.”

“We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.”

“You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.”

“Alas! how easily things go wrong; a sigh too much or a kiss too long, and there follows a mist and a weeping rain, and life is never the same again.”

“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”

“Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.”

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

“When I was young, I said to God, "God, tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered, "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said, "God, tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said, "Well George, that's more nearly your size." And he told me.”