Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Edith Wharton Quotes
Emotional DepthInterest and ChallengeLife PerspectivePersonal ValuesRelationships I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
DestinyImaginationPotentialReflectionSelf-awareness There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Emotional StruggleLifeMemoryReflectionRegret He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
CommunicationExpressionPerceptionSubtletyUnderstanding Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.
AdaptabilityFlexibilityGrowthResilienceStrength Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
AwarenessChangeHabitResilience Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
Legal SystemMarriagePersonal GrowthSocietyVirtue A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
ArtCreativityInnovationMaturityTradition Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
AgingCalmDeathFreedomUniverse Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
CreativityInnovationOriginalityPerspectiveVision True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
AcceptanceAppreciationCouragePerseveranceResilience To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
DutyFocusLimitationResponsibilitySacrifice The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else.
CriticismHumorIntrospectionPerceptionSelf-awareness After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
ExperienceLearningLifeMoralityWisdom Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
CuriosityExplorationHuman NatureKnowledgeMystery What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
BalanceCourageDeterminationResilienceRisk Taking Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
CuriosityDepth of KnowledgeEmotional ImpactLearningPassion In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
MemoryNarrativePerceptionSubjectivityTruth I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
AbundanceHappinessMaterialismMoney MindsetWealth The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
GuidanceInspirationLeadershipPositivitySelf Reflection There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
CultureIdentityPerceptionPerspective The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
AcceptanceContentmentEnjoymentHappinessMindfulness If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
AssertivenessBoundariesCommunicationDecision MakingTime Management When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.