27 Beautiful Quotes From Inspiring Instagram Poets You Absolutely Must Follow

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”

— Dr. Seuss, amazon.com

“Asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“An immature person seeks revenge. An intelligent person moves on, allowing karma to take care of the problem.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“I think there’s a big difference between being a bad person and being bad at being a person.”

— Megan Falley, amazon.com

“So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.”

— Colum McCann, amazon.com

“Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.”

— Benjamin Harrison, amazon.com

“We love comfort. And happiness. You know what nature loves and why it thrives? There is mutation. There is disruption. It's easy for people to say hey you need to adapt and you need to evolve. Wait how do I do that? Well, nature is locally attuned. It has an understanding for the essence around it,…”

— Duke Stump, youtube.com

“Stop searching for happiness in the same place you lost it. Change is not dismantling the old, it's building the new.”

— Brianna Wiest, twitter.com

“In everything there's a proper order. You can't look too far ahead. Do that and you'll lose sight of what you're doing and stumble. I'm not saying you should focus solely on details right in front of you, mind you. You've got to look ahead a bit or else you'll bump into something. You've got to foll…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.”

— Carl Sagan, amazon.com

“Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking. Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life. Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness. Awake from dream,…”

— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com

“Movies, TV shows and books all promote the idea both that a perfect job exists and that landing it is an irascible part of happiness.”

— Jess McHugh, manrepeller.com

“Love is what you have come into life to give. Treat everyone, regardless of who they are, the same way you treat yourself.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“Life has taught me that the people who often love the hardest are the ones who have been hurt the most.”

— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com

“The difference between happiness and unhappiness, both are necessary and useful. Even in the face of an illness that’s unsettling or worrying, this belief is absolutely unshaken.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com

“When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.”

— Dale Carnegie, amazon.com

“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

— Maxim Gorky, amazon.com

“Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.”

— Anne Michaels, amazon.com

“That’s the thing about unhappiness. All it takes is for something worse to come along and you realize it was actually happiness after all.”

— Peter Morgan, Queen Elizabeth II, Claire Foy, imdb.com

“I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far . . . I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Life is a process of giving and receiving. When you give with love or in joy, you must receive in equal measure.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living In better conditions.”

— Hafiz, amazon.com

“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.”

— George Washington Carver, goodreads.com

“The things I've learned from a broken mirror. How a face can change when a heart knows fear.”

— Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, open.spotify.com

“People inflict pain on others in their selfish pursuit of happiness and satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a sense of universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share.”

— Dalai Lama, twitter.com

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”

— T.E. Lawrence, amazon.com

“But what shall I do when instead of a heart this fear is beating in my body?”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels.”

— Albert Einstein, amazon.com

“Our mistake is thinking that the material objects of the ordinary world are the most real things.”

— Hank Green, youtube.com

“Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.”

— Joan Bauer, amazon.com