100+ Best Quotes by Authors – Timeless Wisdom for Inspiration & Creativity

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” — Emily Brontë

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.” — Jane Austen

“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.” — Gabriel García Márquez

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” — Robert A. Heinlein

“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” — Haruki Murakami

“We loved with a love that was strong, even in silence.” — Pablo Neruda

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott

“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft

“Love makes a silent house noisy.” — Khalil Gibran

“I would rather spend one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” — Audrey Hepburn

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.” — Maya Angelou

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.” — Nelson Mandela

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” — Maya Angelou

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” — Maya Angelou

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all the darkness.” — Desmond Tutu

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a hard one.” — Bruce Lee

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” — Victor Hugo

“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.” — Elizabeth Edwards

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.” — John Morley

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” — Carl Jung

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” — John Milton

“I think, therefore I am.” — René Descartes

“In silence, I have sometimes found peace.” — Rumi

“Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.” — Nikki Rowe

“Sometimes the quietest moments are the loudest.” — K.D. Vincent

“I am not lonely, but I am solitary.” — Alice Walker

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most beautiful things are not associated with money; they are memories and moments.” — Anthony T. Hincks

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.” — Jimi Hendrix

“The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” — William Shakespeare

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.” — George Santayana

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” — Socrates

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” — Voltaire

“The older I get, the more I realize that I know very little.” — Albert Einstein

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.” — Kahlil Gibran

“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” — Bruce Lee

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” — William James

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” — Rob Lohr

“All our dreams can come true—if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” — Henry David Thoreau

“It’s not about how much we lost. It’s about how much we have left.” — Chris Gardner

“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” — Marsha Norman

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.” — Norman Vincent Peale

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” — Emily Dickinson

“Grief is the price we pay for love.” — Queen Elizabeth II

“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” — Pierre Auguste Renoir

“Those we love don’t go away; they walk beside us every day.” — Anonymous

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” — Helen Keller

“Tears are words that need to be written.” — Paulo Coelho

“When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” — Unknown

“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth.” — Lord Byron

“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather holes in heaven where all the love of the departed shines through.” — Eskimo Proverb

“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot.” — Mitch Albom

“Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.” — Marcus Aurelius

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” — Thomas Campbell

“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” — Anonymous

“Time is the longest distance between two places.” — Tennessee Williams

“The trouble is, you think you have time.” — Buddha

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” — Mother Teresa

“Time you enjoy wasting was not wasted.” — John Lennon

“Everything changes—nothing is permanent.” — Gautama Buddha

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” — Leo Tolstoy

“Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’” — Lao Tzu

“Memories fade, new ones form, but time is always moving forward.” — Haruki Murakami

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” — Buddha

“The days are long, but the years are short.” — Gretchen Rubin

“Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.” — Delmore Schwartz

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” — Albert Einstein

“Creativity takes courage.” — Henri Matisse

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” — Maya Angelou

“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.” — Neil Gaiman

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” — Pablo Picasso

“The creative adult is the child who survived.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” — Albert Einstein

“To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

“We don’t need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.” — J.K. Rowling

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” — Albert Einstein

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” — Pablo Picasso

“The artist sees what others only catch a glimpse of.” — Isadora Duncan

“No one can make you free. No government can, and no law can. Your freedom is something you give yourself.” — Douglas Horton

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” — Mahatma Gandhi

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” — George Bernard Shaw

“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” — Charlotte Brontë

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” — W.E.B. Du Bois

“Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” — Emma Lazarus

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” — Rollo May

“Your playing small does not serve the world.” — Marianne Williamson

“Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.” — Moshe Dayan

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.” — Steve Martin

“Humor is tragedy plus time.” — Mark Twain

“I intend to live forever — so far, so good.” — Steven Wright

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” — Oscar Wilde

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” — Jim Carrey

“I'm not arguing, I'm just explaining why I'm right.” — Unknown

“The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.” — Horace Walpole

“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” — Lily Tomlin

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” — Albert Einstein

“I’m not lazy, I’m on energy-saving mode.” — Unknown

“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.” — Unknown

“I smiled because you sinned, I laughed because I didn’t care.” — Dr. Seuss