Sometimes people need some inspiration. So here are some John Steinbeck quotes to satisfy your cravings.
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“To be alive at all is to have scars.”
- John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
- John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
“There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.”
- John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“The quality of owning freezes you forever in "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.”
- John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
“And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.”
- John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
“But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.”
- John Steinbeck, East of Eden
