Inspiration Quotes

"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."

- John Green

"Reading only one book is like eating only one potato chip."

- Diane Duane

"Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all."

- Philip Pullman

"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this."

- Dave Eggers

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person ..."

- Carl Sagan

"So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall."

- Roald Dahl

"The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives."

- Roald Dahl

"Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage."

- Frances Hodgson Burnett

"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else."

- Neil Gaiman

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

- Robert Frost

"Literature offers the thrill of minds of great clarity wrestling with the endless problems and delights of being human. To engage with them is to engage with oneself, and the lasting rewards are not confined to specific career paths."

- Jonathan Stroud

"The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life."

- George R.R. Martin

"Sleep is good, and books are better."

- George R.R. Martin

"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science."

- Edwin Powell Hubble

"Science is not only a disciple of reason but also one of romance and passion."

- Stephen Hawking

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'"

- Isaac Asimov

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

- Albert Einstein

"That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."

- Bill Watterson

"Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don’t know how far we can go."

- Bernard Malamud

"Whenever the world makes you cynical; whenever you seek true humility, and true selflessness — look to a veteran."

- Barack Obama

"Look at the stars. Look how they shine for you, and everything you do."

- Coldplay

"My mother never gave me any idea that I couldn’t do whatever I wanted to do or be whomever I wanted to be. ... I don’t know if she ever realized that the person I most wanted to be was her."

- Rory Gilmore

"My mother, she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her."

- Jodi Picoult

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Krishna says: "Arjuna, I am the taste of pure water and the radiance of the sun and moon. I am the sacred word and the sound heard in air, and the courage of human beings. I am the sweet fragrance in the earth and the radiance of fire; I am the life in every creature and the striving of the spiritual aspirant.""

- Bhagavad Gita

"May inspires us to keep growing and blooming."

"Let the spirit of May inspire you to reach new heights in your professional life."

"Mornings are like inspirations. It is up to us what we make of them."

"May the rays of the morning sun inspire you to be the best version of yourself today. Have a happy morning filled with smiles."