Inspirational Quotes

"The hardest battle in life is to be nobody but yourself in a world which
is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else."
    -- e.e.cummings

   'And yet.'
Those are my two favorite words, applicable to every situation, be it happy or bleak.
The sun is rising? And yet it will set.
A night of anguish? And yet it, too, will pass.
The important thing is to shun resignation, to refuse to wallow in sterile fatalism."
        -- Elie Wiesel, All Rivers Run to the Sea

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just
sit there."

For I can see that in the midst of death, Life persists; in the midst
of untruth, Truth persists; in the midst of darkness, Light persists.

An eye for an eye will blind the world.

-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"Courage is resistance of fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain "

Some men see things as they are, and say, 'Why?' I dream of things as
they never were, and ask, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw

"Sometimes you have to stand alone to make sure you still can."
        - The Breakfast Club (i think)

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" -Frank Scully

"It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't care who gets the
credit." - Harry S. Truman

Footprints (religious)

One night a woman had a dream. She dreamed she was walking along the
beach with God. Across the sky flashed scenes from her life. For each
scene, she noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging
to her, and the other to God.

When the last scene of her life flashed before her, she looked back at
the footprints in the sand. She noticed that many times along the path
of her life there was only one set of footprints in the sand. She also
noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times of her
life. This really bothered her and she questioned God about it."

"Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you you'd walk with me
all the way. But I have noticed that during the most difficult times
in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don't understand
why when I needed you most you would leave me."

God replied, "My precious child, I love you and would never leave you.
During your times of suffering, when you see only one set of
footprints, it was then that I carried you."