Inspirational Memoir Quotes

I now understand that no learning that makes a difference to my soul's evolutionary journey will come from the outside. Everything I need is inside…. ~ Christina Crawford

I may not be able to make a horse drink, but it is my duty to lead it to water. ~ Conrad Taylor

Chris didn't need to learn how to conquer fear. He had to embrace it, walk with it and listen to it. ~ Michelle Tackabery

You kids were all planned, you were just planned really, really quickly. ~ Candace Allan

They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. ~ Patricia Christian Punches

The Americans were understandably on hair triggers. There was a good reason for all of this security. For despite TV images of quick victory, much of Baghdad certainly had not fallen and firefights with die-hard Ba'athists loyal to Saddam Hussein were raging all over the city. ~ Lawrence Anthony

Alongside the liberating relief of the veteran who tells us his story, I now felt in the writing a complex, intense, and new pleasure, similar to that I felt as a student when penetrating the solemn order of differentials calculus. It was exalting to search and find, or create, the right word, that is, commensurate, concise, and strong; to dredge up events from my memory and describe them with the greatest rigor and the least clutter. ~ Primo Levi

[V]alue your dreams but ... be wary of them also, ... look for integrity in unusual places. ~ Azar Nafisi

What is this food in my head, anyway? Let's see...it's green and good for you and so delicious. It's prepared by angels with love. The minute you bite into it, it's savory, chewy, nourishing, and whole- some. You feel instantly revitalized. A small, tiny amount, just a few bites, rejuvenates every cell, deepens your breath, clears your mind, heals your wounds, and mends your heart. It's made from joyous plants that voluntarily separate themselves from their stalks, laying themselves at the feet of the approaching gardener who gathers them. They eagerly offer their vital energies to nourish living spirits. The angels in their chef hats, singing mantras, cook it tenderly to retain all the benefits of the generous plants. It's barely sweet, barely salty, and contains all the freshness of spring herbs, summer fruit, spreading leaves, and burgeoning seeds. It comes premade in bags or boxes...you just open it up, sit down, and enjoy. It's a full meal, enough maybe for a whole day, maybe for a week, maybe for your family, maybe for your friends and neighbors. It multiplies like loaves and fishes, in little biodegradable containers that vaporize instantly the moment you finish them, without any greenhouse emissions. Nothing to clean up! ~ Kimber Simpkins

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in the world, because to share our story we must first accept it. We must own it. We must stop running from it or shoving it into the corner when company comes over. To share our story is to admit that we've been changed. ~ Anna White

If I have been given any gift in this life, it's my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination. ~ Tom Robbins

You know you're having a bad week when you call 911, the paramedics come to your house, and one of them notices you've rearranged your furniture. ~ Cherie Kephart

Every crossroad in life has four options – quit, adapt, proceed, or accept, but quitting is a dead-end. ~ Sharon Nir

I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself. ~ Gerry Abbey

What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living. ~ Bob Dole

I guess this means we're uck-fayed, don't it Mikee? ~ Michael Jay

You can make a difference in another person's life and not realize it, just by giving them One Moment of your time, One Memory to recall, One Motion that tells them they are not alone! OM! ~ Deb Simpson

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim ~ Jason Najum

I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things in all their intensity, I might have lost my mind. If I had allowed myself to cry, I might never have been able to stop. So I survived, but I never felt joy, never felt safe. ~ Yeonmi Park

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey. ~ Hyeonseo Lee

Not the first one I loved but the only one that'd keep the fire burning for a long time. ~ Ace Campillo

Murphy's law inverted: What can go right, will go right. (Works if you're an optimist.) ~ Saloma Miller Furlong

If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility. ~ Patricia Amis

We're distracted and we let the door slam on the person behind us, we trip over curbs as we're texting, we're...sedentary, weighed down, collapsed over the laptop. ...We've forgotten how to move through life with grace. ~ Sarah L. Kaufman

I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. ~ Anne Schroeder

I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life's chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story. ~ Jolina Petersheim

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer! ~ Gerry Abbey

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical officers triumphed over barbarism.
Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return. ~ Alistair Urquhart

Perhaps my story was never about my face but about the journey to arrive at a place of grace, which was far better than anything I could ever have imagined. ~ Howard Shulman

The past is gone. It is now always today. ~ Christina Crawford

I've heard that sometimes a version of you must die before another more enlightened version can be born. I think that's true after watching the corpse of myself walk around. ~ Julie Flygare

Sex is not a wizard, whatever magical-seeming properties it might possess in its better forms. If your friend says to you, "You're being mean, you need to get laid," your problem is not sex. Your problems are that you might be acting like an asshole, and your friends are definitely idiots. ~ Katie Heaney

If you are listening to the roar, you're going to miss the whisper. ~ Tracy Pinkerton

Remember to add the most important ingredient to every recipe you make - your love! ~ Diana Silva

Darkness fell, revealing a sparkling night sky so beautiful that we decided to sleep out under the stars. At gray dawn, Phyllis woke me with an urgent voice. "Bill, Bill," she said, "when I woke up I saw this huge boulder beside me, but it wasn't there last night. Look! Look!" she said and pointed next to her. It was the huge buffalo bull! He had come back during the night and lay down beside us to sleep. I was awestruck. I felt so honored, so grateful, so loved. I loved that buffalo with all my heart and soul. I felt like he knew it, and that was why he had come back to sleep with us.

But maybe there's a different reason. Judith Niles, a wise spiritual friend of mine recently told me that the spontaneous melody is "the voice of the soul." The minute she said it I knew she was right. Now I feel sure that the creatures responded to "the voice of the soul" amplified through my body. When we human beings finally get it together the natural world is going to respond to us in more wonderful ways than we can ever begin to imagine. ~ William "Billy" Packer

Choose this life. Choose this body. Say yes to all of it. Say yes to the beauty and the good and the ugly and the difficult. Choose what you have, what you are. Choose this moment. Choose to love and remember. You are full. You are alive. ~ Kimber Simpkins

It's only natural for people to fall, but there are people who, even if they fall, jump right back up right away and run forward, and there are people who just keep sitting there, crying. ~ Ilchi Lee

I have gradually come to understand what every great philosophy until now has been: the confession of its author and a kind of involuntarily unconscious memoir. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The amount of time an individual may spend pondering over what his neighbor has and what he does not, is equivalent to the amount of time the individual has lost in becoming an equal to his neighbors. ~ Victoria Addino

If I only had one reader in my entire life, that reader would be all that I needed to continue writing. ~ Joseph Eastwood

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns. ~ W.S. Gilbert

Don't feel useless. Even a spoilt clock is right twice a day. ~ Unknown

Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now? ~ John P. Strelecky

The more you give, the more you want to do it - as do others around you. It's like going to the gym. If you've been working out your kindness muscles, you get stronger at it. - Nipun Mehta ~ Adam M. Grant

Life is a great poetry.
To live it at its best
Write a love story
And be a great poet.

Life is a great poetry.
To love it at its best
Love everyone earnestly,
Without judging for a crest.

Life is a great poetry.
To live it at its best
Create a great history
Before going for the rest.

Life is a great poetry.
To paint it at its best
Through colors openly
As if, life is not a test.

Life is a great poetry.
To enjoy it at its best
Enjoy a golden dusk party
When birds return to nest. ~ Debasish Mridha

Make complex things simple; take simple things seriously. ~ Master Jun Hong Lu

If you put gratitude at the center of your life, one day you will find it has completely taken over. ~ Renae A. Sauter

To become a distinguished entrepreneur, you need to have an undeniable, unquestionable and unmovable passion for your vision. ~ Onyi Anyado

Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have you ever been in a room with many unhappy people? How did it feel in there? Now imagine what billions of unhappy people are doing to the planet. Unfortunately, we have become so accustomed to this energy that we don't even notice it anymore. It's as thick as molasses everywhere with the exception of a few pockets of joy now and then. ~ Robert Anthony

When the elders built this place, it was only bare mountaintops.' I look to the crowd. 'It didn't become a home because they filled it with towers. It became a home because they built it together. This land, these temples--they're not what matters. As long as we have each other, we will carry Orisha in our veins. No one can ever take that away. ~ Tomi Adeyemi

No one is you and that is your biggest power. ~ Dave Grohl

Every beat of your heart sends the message of love over the boundary of infinite time. ~ Debasish Mridha

There is no good day or a bad day, but our perception makes it so. ~ Debasish Mridha

Genes are overrated...

Genes never helped anybody pick the right foods or hit the gym floor at 6 am. Its you as a person; its always been YOU! ~ Dr Deepak Hiwale, Aka 'The Fitness Doc'

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will ~ Lewis H. Lapham

To fill the world with joy and happiness give the gift of love and kindness. ~ Debasish Mridha

You care so much for that special person because it feels like that person is part of you. ~ Sandra Villa

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you. ~ Gene Simmons

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry. ~ Criss Jami

Make it bigger, make it badder, make it awesome! ~ Duff Goldman

The people who really make you angry, control you! ~ Steven Aitchison

Keep doing good deeds long enough and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. ~ Louis Auchincloss

The greatest self is the grace to live for your dreams. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to win souls than to conquer nations. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The foundation and cornerstone of state leadership is power of the people. ~ Wayne Chirisa

Live your best life....let your Inner Goddess out to Play! ~ Paula Weisflock

The reason that everyone has their own problem is everyone sees something in different side. ~ Jessica Patricia

One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about one act, then turned to me in horror: 'This is how you spend your days? Thinking about things like this?' I was ashamed. I could have been learning about string theory or how flowers pollinate themselves.
I think his remark was the beginning of my crisis of faith. Like so many of my generation in graduate school, I had turned to literature as a kind of substitute for formal religion, which no longer fed my soul, or for therapy, which I could not afford ... I became interested in exploring the theory of nonfiction and in writing memoir, a genre that gives us access to that lost Middlemarch of reflection and social commentary. ~ Mary Rose O'Reilley

and here you are living
despite it all ~ Rupi Kaur

Cry if you need to…
Scream if you have to…
Afterwards, everything will be okay… ~ Charlena E. Jackson

The greatest cure for love is still that time honoured medicine - love returned. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

If eggs can grow into great creatures, you can too. ~ Giovannie De Sadeleer

Dwell on the beautiful miracles of life. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Worship means respecting all of God's creation. ~ Lamees Alhassar

Don't expect people to understand your purpose when God didn't give them your vision. ~ Turcois Ominek

God came into the world to reawaken the thirst for great things in us. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

To face a real daemon, you must first look inwards and conquer your own darkness. ~ Luis Marques

If you really want something ..
Nothing can stop you ..
It's about nothing except you ! ~ Gehad Badr

I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. ~ Helen Keller

Never look for a reason to be kind, just be kind to everyone. Kindness is the language of heart that everyone can understand. ~ Debasish Mridha

You did the best you could with the knowledge you had in that moment. It's easier to look back at an event and see a better choice or pathway because we already learned from our experience. Hindsight happens after the lesson, so we can't condemn ourselves for not knowing the lesson before we learned it. ~ Emily Maroutian

The purpose of education should not to be to fill you with knowledge, but education should make you hungry for knowledge. ~ Debasish Mridha

Life is short. Don't waste a single moment. ~ Tess Alley

What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller? That's what you do, you engineer of the human soul. Just that. You're a coward. You want the raisins out of my cake but you don't want the thorns of my roses. Haven't you too, little psychiatrist, been cracking silly jokes about me? Haven't you ridiculed me as "the prophet of bigger and better orgasms"? Have you never heard the whimpering of a young wife whose body has been desecrated by an impotent husband? Or the anguished cry of an adolescent bursting with unfulfilled love? Does your security still mean more to you than your patient? How long will you go on valuing your respectability above your medical mission? How long will you refuse to see that your pussyfooting procrastination is costing millions their lives? ~ Wilhelm Reich

Knowledge is borrowed; wisdom is unique. ~ Debasish Mridha