Motivational Day Starting Quotes & Sayings

I wanted to say a lot of things, but, as usual, I didn't have the words for the thoughts inside my head. — Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

The greater a man's folly, the greater his enslavement. The wiser a man is, the greater his freedom. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We always think we know what we want: when in truth there is nothing we are less likely to know. — Jude Morgan

Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies ... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts will be largely for naught, since people
tire, lose focus, forget, and, eventually, give up their ghosts, while institutions share no such limitations. — Brian Awehali

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. — Mary Pettibone Poole

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy. — Paul Auster

Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet. — Andrew Rosenthal

Buechner put it this way: The Gospel is bad news before it is good news. It is the news that man is a sinner . . . that when he looks in the mirror all in a lather what he sees is at least eight parts chicken, phony, slob. That is the tragedy. But it is also the news that he is loved anyway, cherished, forgiven, bleeding to be sure, but also bled for. — Lois Rabey

If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done. — John Lubbock

Sydney and I love each other. That's all that matters. — Richelle Mead

Jace you already behave as if you've never heard the word 'fear.' I fail to see how we're going to be able to tell the difference if it does work on you." (Luke talking about the rune Clary just created)
Alec stifled what sounded like a laugh. Jace simply smiled a tight unfriendly smile. "I've heard the word 'fear,'" he said. "I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me."
"Exactly the problem," said Luke.
-pg.283-284- — Cassandra Clare

If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity. — Charles Horton Cooley

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. — David Nicholls

When I think about how I understand my role as citizen, setting aside being president, and the most important set of understandings that I bring to that position of citizen, the most important stuff I've learned I think I've learned from novels. It has to do with empathy. It has to do with being comfortable with the notion that the world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found, and that you have to strive for that and work for that. And the notion that it's possible to connect with some[one] else even though they're very different from you. — Barack Obama