Our Newest Quotes


If you feel delight when you read a new quote for the first time that truly inspires you – get ready to be delighted! This page is about to become your personal ‘quote treasure trove’. When quotes are selected for our collection, you’ll be able to review them here before they are entered into their subject and author categories on this site.



Reality is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires a creative imagination and marks the real advances in science.
Albert Einstein

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.
Paul Eldridge

Ideas must word through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought is the seed of action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Creativity is an act of self-discovery.
Sebastion Esteverena

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they always have been done.
Rudolf Flesch

Creativity is an attitude that transcends paradigms and beliefs.It's a soul level yearning to fulfill a purpose, uniquely contribute and leave a mark.
Janice Francisco

A full belly makes a dull brain.
Benjamin Franklin

Love is a union with somebody, or someething, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. It is an experience of sharing, or communing, which permits the full unfolding of one's own inner activity.
Erich Fromm

The capacity to be puzzled is…the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
Erich Fromm

Th brain is a wonderful organ; it starts the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.
Robert Frost

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Action is my domain.
Mahatma Gandhi

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love never claims, it ever gives.
Mahatma Gandhi

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
Mahatma Gandhi

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.
Kahlil Gibran

When you work, you fulfill a part of earth's fondest dream assigned to you when that dream is born.
Kahlil Gibran

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with tohers.
Goethe

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.
Natalie Goldberg

Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that acompanies important ongoing activity.
Paul Goodman

Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain!
Vivian Greene

The ultimate solutions to problems are rational; the process of finding them is not.
J. P. Guilford

To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to to grow intellectually.
J. P. Guilford

You are brilliant and the earth is hiring.
Paul Hawken

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.
William Hazlitt

Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of knowledge.
Abraham Heschel

Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hippocrates

The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him.
Eric Hofer

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Eric Hoffer

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Bob Hope

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.
Lena Horne

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius.
Elbert Hubbard

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley

The heart and soul of the company is creativity and innovation.
Robert Iger

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Anthony Jay

All things are possible to him who believes.
Jesus

You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
Steve Jobs

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Carl Jung

Where love reigns, there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking.
Carl Jung

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
Jon Kabat-Zinn

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.
Franz Kafka

If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles F. Kettering

Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.
Charles F. Kettering

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
Ellen Key





As a life-long collector of quotes, nothing is more fun for me as discovering a new ‘quote gem’. Keep in mind I often sift through hundreds of quotes a day. Sometimes I come up empty handed. On the good days, quotes seem to pop out and say, “Pick me!” Every time that happens, that special, hand-selected bit of inspiration will land on this page for your enjoyment. After a week, these new quotes will be sorted and included in their subject and author categories, and another set of new quotes will take their place on this page.

Sound exciting? If so, I am naming you an official member of our Quote Collector’s Club. I never stop hunting for quotes, and I confess to being very picky, too. Some quotes work for me, but many, many others do not. That’s the great thing about being the ‘quote master’ of this site. My hope is that you share my enthusiasm for these quotes and find some joy in sharing them, too!

I know many of you are ‘quote angels’ passing along ‘random acts of inspiration’ in the form of quotes you read here that could help someone you know. Thank you for sharing and caring. Telling people about this site will help us all grow. Please know your support is greatly appreciated.

Have a quote you think belongs in the Joy of Quotes collection? Please share it with us using this form. I cannot promise every quote will be used, but you have my assurance I will read every quote you submit with love. Thanks, in advance, for your help!

Your joy and inspiration coach,




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