I will list 100 quotes to inspire me for those times I need inspiration. (Suggestions appreciated.)

78. We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer

79. “Religion. It’s given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.” -Jon Stewart

80. “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” – Mark Twain

81. “God is too big to fit into any one house.”-Roger Williams (founder of Rhode Island)

82. “Nothing external has much meaning if one doesn’t understand the self.” -Unknown.

83.”Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

84. ‘You don’t see the world as it is. You see it as you are.’~Talmud

85. “Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth”-Lillian Hellman

86. “The just man serves neither God nor creature; he is free; and the more he is just the more he is free and the more he is freedom itself.” -Meister Eckhart

87. “I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” – Susan B. Anthony

88. “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”-Richard Bach

89. “Religion is an attempt to find an out where there is no door.” – Albert Einstein

90. “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

91. “Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.” – Thomas Hobbes

92. “When you tell me that your Deity made you in his own image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.” – Victor Hugo

93. “If lightning is the anger of the gods, the gods are concerned mostly with trees.” – Lao Tse

94. Pastors and priests always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don’t mind poverty, misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.”- Susan Ertz

95. “The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.” – Sir Richard Burton

96. “Men rarely (if ever) managed to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.” – Robert Heinlein

97. “If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” – Anatole France

98. It often happens that scientists say, `You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again… I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”- Carl Sagan

99. A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for a reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” Albert Einstein

100. “What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.” – Wittgenstein

101.”Trust thyself. Every heart vibrates to that iron string.” Emerson

102. “Put no head above your own.” Buddha

56. “Humans assume that if there is a god S/he is as judgemental as they are.” (unknown)

57. “The United States of America is in no sense founded on the Christian religion.” – John Adams (1735-1826), founding father and second U.S. president.

58. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. ~ Descartes

59. Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

60. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ~ Voltaire

61. “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities,” Voltaire

62. “I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my church. ”—Benjamin Franklin

63. Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself”- Zen Master Dogen

64. A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity”- The Buddha

65. “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”- The Buddha

66. You live and you learn. Or you don’t live long. – Lazarus Long

67. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” -Arthur C. Clarke

68. “Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.” Albert Einstein

69.” God does not send people to Hell, people volunteer.” Max Lucado

70. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared with what lies within us.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

71. ” A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ” Gilbert Chesterton

72. ” Wisdom comes by disillusionment. ”
George Santayana

73. All sins are attempts to fill voids.
Simone Weil

74. “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ”
Simone Weil

75. “We have met the enemy, and he is us.”-Pogo (Walt Kelly)

76. ”’How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.’”~ John Abbott

77.”It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.”
~ William G. McAdoo

51. Light-spun worlds collide
In dark space;
Stars whirl all around
A deep and watching
Stillness.
—Rita Reuschle

52. 47Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.
48And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.
49And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?
50And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace
Mark 47-50 (I think. I found it on a Bible on line site.)

53.Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. 10She went out and told those who had been with him, while they were mourning and weeping. 11But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. (Mark ?)

54. He that cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. Yiddish saying.

55. Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. (Malcolm Forbes, publisher, 1919-1990_

42. Faith moves mountains. Religion strip mines them! (Unknown)
43. Whether invoked or not, god is always present. Carl Jung
44. If you have conflicting intentions, you will be torn because dynamics will be set in motion and oppose each other. If you are not aware of all your intentions, the strongest one will win. Gary Zukav from “Seat of the Soul.”
45. The acts of life have neither beginning nor end. Tristan Tzara.
46. those who lose dreaming are lost. Australian Aboriginal proverb.
47. Love one another with brotherly affection, as members of one family, giving precedence and showing honor to one another. Roman 12:10.
48. There’s no money in poetry but then there’s no poetry in money either. Robert Graves.
49. Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength. Eric Hoffer.
50. If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. Friedrich Nietzshee (1844-1900)

26. We are here to help one another along life’s journey.”
- William Bennett

27. We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”
- Helen Keller

28. “We all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity , and dedicate ourselves to that.”
- Joseph Campbell

29. The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.—David Russell

30. Human nature seems to endow people with the ability to size up everybody but themseves.—author unknown.

31. Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.—Albert Schweitzer

32. In three words, I can summ up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.—Robert Frost

33. Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.—Channing Pollack

34.Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.—Ralph Waldo Emerson

35. How the person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.—Wilhem von Humbolt

36. See the human mind is kind of like…a pinata. When it breaks open, there’s a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the pinata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.—June Wagner

37. Thoughts are things and will become crimes or miracles.—Edgar Cayce

38. Religion is for those who who are trying to stay out of hell…spirituality is for those who have been there.—P.L. Reilly

39. Better to be silent and thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.—Mark Twain

40. Chinese proverb—Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

1.Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa

2. God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
Mother Teresa

3.Good works are links that form a chain of love.
Mother Teresa

4.In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa

5.It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
Mother Teresa

6.Jesus said love one another. He didn’t say love the whole world.
Mother Teresa

7.Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa

8.Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa

9. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

10.Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

11.Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

12. There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
Mother Teresa

13. We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa

“What we do is nothing but a drop in the ocean, but if we didn’t do it, the ocean would be one drop less.”
- Mother Teresa

Is your life lost in living?”
- T. S. Eliot

1. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because
they tell us that dragons exist, but because
they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”—G.K.Chesterton

2. For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived,
reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand,
you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands;
one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.
A quote from Audrey Hepburn

3. A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
- President Harry S. Truman

4. Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.”
- Leo Tolstoy

5. “There are no facts, only interpretation.”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

6. “All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth”
- Chief Seattle, 1844

Chief Seattle’s quote has long been a favorite.

I have collected many over the years but it is time to update my list. I can’t think of a time that I’ve need inspiration more! I’ll start with my favorite:

1. “Follow your bliss!” Joseph Campbell (from THE POWER OF MYTH)

2. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

3. from THE MATRIX: morpheus, “what you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. you’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. you don’t know what it is but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad.”

I don’t mean #4 to be offensive to anyone’s spiritual beliefs but something about it speaks to me.

4.”Your religion is irrelevant to me. I care not what you think happened
at the dawn of creation or what will happen at the end of time. I care only how
you lived your life: Were you kind to strangers? Did you honor and respect the world
around you? Were you honest and hard-working? Did you help everyone you could?
Did you fight for justice and equality? Did you love without fear, laugh without conceit
and sing as loud as you could? Will you die knowing you did your best?
These are the only things that matter.”
- Unknown