With a carefully chosen quote for each day of the year, this book will be a constant source of inspiration, accompanying you through the depths of winter to starry summer nights, and on again to Christmas and the New Year. You’ll encounter lines from novels, short stories, essays, journals, and poems, as well as zen-like meditations, and classic aphorisms.
The quotes come from more than a hundred different authors—including many of the world’s great literary figures. There are quotes to inspire courage: “The thing is—fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream” (William Golding); ignite creativity: “The Possible’s slow fuse is lit/ By the Imagination!” (Emily Dickinson); and enjoin us to action and goodness: “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good” (Marcus Aurelius). You’ll meet more playful inspiration in quotes from Douglas Adams and Dr. Seuss. And we’ve also found room for the kind of mystical reflections that poets such as Wallace Stevens so excelled in composing.
In these quotes you’ll find a wealth of wisdom distilled into a few choice words. But of course, it is not always the full picture—while the main aim of this collection is to offer day-by-day inspiration, we hope it will also be a springboard for discovering new writers. When you are inspired by a writer’s words, we encourage you to seek out the original work, and rediscover the quote in its natural environment. We have rigorously tracked down the source of each quote and attributed it accordingly.
This book was designed to be as easily navigable as possible on your e-reader. To begin, you need only turn to the Contents page and follow the link to the current month. We wish you an inspirational voyage of discovery.
Quotes to Inspire: 365 Inspirational Lines from Classic and Modern Literature
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What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
George Eliot, Middlemarch
February First.
Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
March First.
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
William Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale
April First.
Let the wild rumpus start!
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
May First.
Nothing is so beautiful as spring—
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing
Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring”
June First.
Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit
To his full height!
William Shakespeare, Henry V
July First.
For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle,
And the merry love to dance
W. B. Yeats, “The Fiddler of Dooney”
August First.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
September First.
“What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well...”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
October First.
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
November First.
O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”
December First.
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.
James Joyce, Ulysses