101 Inspirational Quotes

As part of my Day Zero Project, I wanted to make a list of 101 inspirational quotes.  I will be highlighting some of these throughout the year in my Quote Wednesday meme.  Those that are highlighted, have the date posted in parentheses.   Enjoy!

1. “What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not.” – Keats (11/10/10)
2. “Great art picks up where nature ends.” – Chagall (11/17/10)
3. “Wine is bottle poetry.” — Robert Louis Stevenson (11/24/10)
4. “Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.  You step onto the road and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” — JRR Tolkien (12/1/10)
5. “If you are going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill (12/15/10)
6. “Advice is seldom welcome, and those who want it the most always like it the least.” — Lord Chesterfield (12/29/10)
7. “The mere sense of living is joy enough.” — Emily Dickinson (1/5/11)
8. “Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”  ~John Ruskin (2/2/11)
9. “Music is love in search of a word.” — Sidney Lanier (2/9/11)
10. “All through the day we inadvertently speak words that enter people’s lives and change them in minor or major ways and we never know it.” — Eugene Peterson (2/23/11)
11. “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Picasso (3/9/11)
12. “Words are the only tools you will be given. Learn to use them with originality and care. Value them for their strength and diversity. And also remember that somebody out there is listening.” — William Zinsser (3/16/11)
13. “Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” — John Dewey (4/20/11)
14. “I find penguins at present the only comfort in life. One feels everything in the world so sympathetically ridiculous, one can’t be angry when one looks at a penguin.” — John Ruskin (4/27/11)
15. “Fashion passes, style remains.” — Coco Chanel (5/4/11)
16. “Do not be fooled by its commonplace appearance. Like so many things, it is not what outside, but what is inside that counts.” -Aladdin (6/15/11)
17. “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” –Winnie the Pooh (6/15/11)
18. “Most everyone’s mad here. You may have noticed that I’m not all there myself. –Cheshire Cat, Alice in Wonderland” (6/15/11)
19. “Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.” — Richard Aldington (7/6/11)
20. “Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory…in this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man’s freedom.” – FDR (7/20/11)
21. “It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.” — S.I. Hayakawa (8/24/11)
22. “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” — Louis Pasteur (8/31/11)
23. “Society is indeed a contract…it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.” — Edmund Burke (11/9/11)
24. “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” — Edmund Hillary (1/4/12)
25. “If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes chldren before they are deformed by adult society.” — Jean Piaget (1/18/12)
26.  ”I have no special talents.  I am only passionately curious.” — Albert Einstein (1/25/12)
27. “My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.” – Alice Hoffman Practical Magic (2/1/12)
28. “Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.” — Joanne Harris Chocolat (2/8/12)
29. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” — William Shakespeare A Midsummer’s Night Dream (2/15/12)
30. I saw the angel in the marble and I just chiseled till I set him free. — Michelangelo (3/7/12)
31. Cross out every sentence until you come to one you cannot do without. That is your beginning. — Gary Provost (3/14/12)
32. “To be an artist is to believe in life.” — Henry Moore (3/21/12)
33.  ”I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” — Pablo Neruda (Sonet XVII) (3/28/12)
34. “Never regret.  If it’s good, it’s wonderful.  If it’s bad, it’s experience.” — Victoria Holt (4/4/12)
35. “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.  Those who don’t believe in magic never find it.” – Roald Dahl (4/18/12)
36. “One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.”  — Ed Wood (4/25/12)