18 Inspirational and Insightful Book and Author Quotes

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”  ~Jim Rohn

"Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself... know what you want. "  ~Ingrid Magnussen, White Oleander

"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed." ~Edgar Allen Poe

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.” 

~Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.” 
~Marcel Proust, Time Regained

“Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.”  ~Criss Jami

“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”  ~Elbert Hubbard

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”  ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”  ~Mahatma Gandhi

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” 
~Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”  ~Marilyn Monroe

“We accept the love we think we deserve.” 
~Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”  ~Bil Keane

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” 
~Thomas A. Edison

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” 
~Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

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

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” 
~J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”  ~Maya Angelou