Create a List of 365 Life-Inspiring Quotes

“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”

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

“The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.”

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”

“What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.”

“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself…Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant re-arrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”

I like this one because I’m constantly keeping journals, writing on websites like this one, and writing random stuff on my computer about how I feel about things. I actually found this quote while reading a notebook I kept during my freshman year at college (about 15 yrs ago).

When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
~Author Unknown

“We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.”

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”