Create a List of 365 Life-Inspiring Quotes

Everyone is jealous. Some admit it, others do not. It is a perversity to be jealous of the past because the past is usually made of ashes. But with the artist the past survives in another form, and I can understand those who are jealous of the past of an artist. It becomes a monument. Examine the past of most people, and you find a neat cemetery or an urn with ashes. But examine the past of an artist and you find monuments to its perpetuity, a book, a statue, a painting, a symphony, a poem.

by Anais Nin

“No one has lived so close to his skeleton as I have lived to mine: from which results an endless dialogue and certain truths which I manage neither to accept nor to reject.”

by E.M. Cioran

“Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel.”

by Unknown

“One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one’s own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one’s pen.”

by Leo Tolstoy

“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”

by Catherine Drinker Bowen, Atlantic, December 1957

“I’m not happy when I’m writing, but I’m more unhappy when I’m not.”

by Frannie Hurst

“All adventures, especially into new territories, are scary.”

by Sally Ride

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”

by Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.”

by Helen Keller

“Happy is an adult word. You don’t have to ask a child about happy. You see it. They are, or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about it is the same as trying to catch the wind, much easier to let it blow all over you.”

from ‘The Passion’ by Jeanette Winterson