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Best Quotes About Life (Top 100)
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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss -
I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe -
There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe
Albert Einstein -
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde -
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Dr. Seuss -
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost -
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus -
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain -
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou -
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde -
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe -
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West -
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown Jr -
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein -
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain -
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark Twain -
It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
Elie Wiesel -
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Douglas Adams -
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw -
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu -
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr. Seuss -
I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
Albert Einstein -
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss -
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
Dr. Seuss -
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein -
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
C.S. Lewis -
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Oscar Wilde -
When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
Helen Keller -
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchett -
Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein -
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein -
Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
John Green -
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!
Bob Marley -
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway -
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
John Green -
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll -
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain -
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde -
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Oscar Wilde -
Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.
Oscar Wilde -
A person's a person, no matter how small.
Dr. Seuss -
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe -
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway -
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain -
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus -
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank -
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde -
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov -
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde -
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw -
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'
Stephen King -
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
John Lennon -
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe -
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes -
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde -
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
John Green -
I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
Stephenie Meyer -
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
Marilyn Monroe -
Whatever you are, be a good one
Abraham Lincoln -
Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi -
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
John Lennon -
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Paulo Coelho -
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Philip K. Dick -
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.
Arundhati Roy -
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Arthur C. Clarke -
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift -
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix -
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'Engle -
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain -
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
John Lennon -
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein -
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.
John Lennon -
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Dr. Seuss -
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela -
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Stephen Hawking -
Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
JRR Tolkien -
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams -
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank -
Nothing that's worthwhile is ever easy. Remember that.
Nicholas Sparks -
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.
Mark Twain -
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl -
I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
John Steinbeck
Even More Life Quotes
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou -
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates -
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath -
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway -
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Terry Pratchett -
I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned thatyou can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned thatregardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they'regone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing asmaking a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on bothhands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that wheneverI decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I'velearned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned thatevery day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, orjust a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what youdid, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou -
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
William Styron -
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
Charles Bukowski -
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Sylvia Plath -
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."
Khaled Hosseini -
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Dale Carnegie -
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something
Plato -
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Dr. Seuss -
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway -
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
Mark Twain -
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.
Roald Dahl -
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller -
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
Maya Angelou -
Who said nights were for sleep?
Marilyn Monroe -
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer -
Resist much, obey little.
Walt Whitman -
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead -
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
Gustave Flaubert -
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor -
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles Dickens -
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round & wet & crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.
Frank Zappa -
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley -
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Corrie Ten Boom -
If you follow all of the rules, you'll miss all of the fun.
Katharine Hepburn -
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
Hunter S. Thompson -
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk -
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Dr. Seuss -
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost -
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore -
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss -
Knowing others is intelligence;knowing yourself is true wisdom.Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao Tzu -
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
Anais Nin -
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin -
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill -
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw -
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong -
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire -
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Henry James -
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
Mark Twain -
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
Maya Angelou -
You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!
Dr. Seuss -
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Charles Bukowski -
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
H. Jackson Brown Jr -
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
Khalil Gibran -
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.
Emily Dickinson -
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain -
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
Audrey Hepburn -
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
Tom Bodett -
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin -
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
John Greenleaf Whittier -
love the life you live. live the life you love.
Bob Marley -
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Isaac Asimov -
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
Henry Miller -
And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
Kurt Vonnegut -
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren -
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.
Marilyn Monroe -
A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
Douglas Adams -
My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
Alan Moore -
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
Marilyn Monroe -
When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel -
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.
Jim Morrison -
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
Lloyd Alexander -
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.
Marilyn Monroe -
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
Hunter S. Thompson -
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato -
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
William Wordsworth -
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Bob Marley -
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens -
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln -
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare -
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.
Nora Ephron -
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Dr. Seuss -
I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.
Terry Pratchett -
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
Douglas Coupland -
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.
Audrey Hepburn -
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth -
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa -
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
Eleanor Roosevelt -
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell -
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Paul McCartney -
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
Terry Pratchett -
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.
Robert Frost -
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
Sophocles -
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
Blaise Pascal -
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso -
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Walt Whitman -
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman -
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
Guy de Maupassant -
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel -
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Agatha Christie -
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
Ashleigh Brilliant -
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer -
There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...
John Lennon -
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali -
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.
Sylvia Plath -
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius -
I drink to make other people more interesting.
Ernest Hemingway -
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela -
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville -
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
Margaret Mitchell -
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
George Orwell -
You're something between a dream and a miracle.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Haruki Murakami -
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
Dr. Seuss -
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Epicurus -
Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
Kurt Vonnegut -
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oprah Winfrey -
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin -
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank -
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde -
Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anais Nin -
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Ellen DeGeneres -
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
Albert Camus -
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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 -
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Albert Camus -
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde -
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Erica Jong -
Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with
Gillian Anderson -
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Abraham Lincoln -
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller -
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
Douglas Adams -
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix -
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
Bob Marley -
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau -
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Lewis Carroll -
I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
Dr. Seuss -
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
Anthony Burgess -
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire -
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Allen Ginsberg -
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown -
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson -
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
Robert Frost -
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton -
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
Donald Miller -
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway -
Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters.
John Green -
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx -
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Eckhart Tolle -
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius -
There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after.
JRR Tolkien -
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock -
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Augusten Burroughs -
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
Hunter S. Thompson -
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
Jorge Luis Borges -
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison -
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.
George Carlin -
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn -
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
Aristotle -
Happiness is self-connectedness.
Aristotle -
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw -
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward -
The Voice There is a voice inside of you That whispers all day long, "I feel this is right for me, I know that this is wrong." No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What's right for you—just listen to The voice that speaks inside.
Shel Silverstein -
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith -
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin -
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim Morrison -
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
Jonathan Safran Foer -
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo F. Buscaglia -
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert -
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
Christopher Paolini -
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy -
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell -
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo -
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
Anais Nin -
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte -
I've got nothing to do today but smile.
Paul Simon -
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers -
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
Mother Teresa -
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.
Gerard Way -
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin -
Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West -
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker -
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell -
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
Zora Neale Hurston -
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham -
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu -
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.
Julian Barnes -
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Dickinson -
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Kahlil Gibran -
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one
Bruce Lee -
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Jane Goodall -
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain -
As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.
Harper Lee -
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt -
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln -
Be curious, not judgmental.
Walt Whitman -
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin -
Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright
Bob Marley -
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs -
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Walt Whitman -
Life isn't finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Sherrilyn Kenyon -
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Desmond Tutu -
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton -
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.
Paulo Coelho -
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo -
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius -
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle -
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
Mark Twain -
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov -
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius -
When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.
Paulo Coelho -
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin -
Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
Carl Sandburg -
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.
Kahlil Gibran -
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Khalil Gibran -
I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.
Mae West -
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau -
There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.
Bernard Malamud -
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
Eckhart Tolle -
The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey -
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
Antonio Porchia -
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni Morrison -
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso -
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Boris Pasternak -
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain -
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
Aristotle -
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham -
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.
Paulo Coelho -
If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon -
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan -
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle -
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde -
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Confucius -
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Victor Hugo -
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
Lord Byron -
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde -
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
Albert Einstein -
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
Douglas Adams -
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Mark Twain -
Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.
Joss Whedon -
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin -
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott -
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot -
All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
Marilyn Monroe -
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol -
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie -
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
Milan Kundera -
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner -
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel -
If you are sad, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
Lao Tzu -
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust -
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya Angelou -
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller -
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de La Fontaine -
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them
George Bernard Shaw -
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
Charlie Chaplin -
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
Zora Neale Hurston -
The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.
Paulo Coelho -
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas
Paula Poundstone -
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen -
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde -
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Judy Garland -
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller -
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx -
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn -
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
Bob Marley -
I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
Groucho Marx -
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Cesare Pavese -
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk -
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein -
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!
Maya Angelou -
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw -
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Mae West -
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
Carl Sagan -
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
John Wesley -
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein -
We think too much and feel too little.
Charlie Chaplin -
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody Allen -
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Gerard Way -
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
Edgar Allan Poe -
One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
Mary Renault -
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov -
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley -
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
Oscar Wilde -
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
Bob Marley -
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can't buy.
Haruki Murakami -
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Rabindranath Tagore -
There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.
Judith McNaught -
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
Mae West -
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau -
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
Judith Viorst -
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs -
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller -
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
Douglas Coupland -
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching
Gerard Way -
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught"in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too"in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well"or ill?
John Steinbeck -
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell -
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan -
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde -
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
Marcus Aurelius -
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'
Charles M. Schulz -
In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein -
Be yourself, don't take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
Gerard Way -
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
James Joyce -
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein -
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein -
The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
George Saunders -
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.
Maya Angelou -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan -
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you be this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.
Khaled Hosseini -
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius -
You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
Charlie Chaplin -
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley -
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain -
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain -
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Dennis Wholey -
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela -
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
Albert Einstein -
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
Gloria Naylor -
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Laozi -
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse -
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau -
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Life is mostly froth and bubble,Two things stand like stone.Kindness in another's trouble,Courage in your own.
Adam Lindsay Gordon -
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Louis Adamic -
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
Benjamin Franklin -
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. Seuss -
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy -
Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
Groucho Marx -
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
Cher -
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Oscar Wilde -
Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire -
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran -
From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
Anais Nin -
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Anais Nin -
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln -
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Jerry Seinfeld -
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz -
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong -
To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'
Ayn Rand -
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.
Erma Bombeck -
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein -
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci -
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz -
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost -
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens -
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford -
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London -
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking -
There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it
Gustave Flaubert -
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn -
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
Helen Keller -
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
William Shakespeare -
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
Samuel Beckett -
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci -
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand -
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw -
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
Saul Bellow -
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem -
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather.
Bill Hicks -
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there
Lewis Carroll -
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius -
It takes a very long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso -
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.
Ken Kesey -
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
Joseph Campbell -
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan -
They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
Dorothy Parker -
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve -
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such
Henry Miller -
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Oscar Wilde -
The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.
Lewis Grizzard -
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Carl Sandburg -
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Victor Hugo -
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius -
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey -
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde -
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
John Milton -
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci -
If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.
Socrates -
There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.
Tupac Shakur -
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!
Charlie Chaplin -
Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
Charlie Chaplin -
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
Pearl S. Buck -
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey -
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey -
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.
Haruki Murakami -
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
Lord Byron -
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard -
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar -
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss -
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
Mae West -
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell -
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
Henry James -
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci -
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde -
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca -
I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.
Franz Kafka -
I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
Helen Fielding -
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill -
If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso -
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
Robin Williams -
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer -
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein -
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn -
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
Mae West -
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.
Diane von Furstenberg -
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
Martin Luther -
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius -
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo -
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell -
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
Oscar Wilde -
Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
Shel Silverstein -
This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
Erma Bombeck -
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller -
There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.
Gerard Way -
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Che Guevara -
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
Freedom and love go together. Love is not a reaction. If I love you because you love me, that is mere trade, a thing to be bought in the market; it is not love. To love is not to ask anything in return, not even to feel that you are giving something- and it is only such love that can know freedom.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
The meaning of life is that it stops.
Franz Kafka -
Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole -
Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.
Ovid -
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy -
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin -
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
Mae West -
I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
Og Mandino -
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
Laurence Sterne -
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee -
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse -
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Laozi -
Sex is emotion in motion.
Mae West -
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Richard Bach -
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
Isabel Allende -
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face.
John Updike -
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville -
I don't want to believe. I want to know.
Carl Sagan -
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler -
Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe.
Barbara de Angelis -
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Aphra Behn -
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Anthony Robbins -
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. Seuss -
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh -
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert Einstein -
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don't want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you're doing here. Believe in kissing.
Eve Ensler -
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Jorge Luis Borges -
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King Jr. -
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford -
Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen -
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard -
Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
Mark Twain -
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka -
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Muhammad Ali -
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.
Jean Giraudoux -
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Jack London -
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes -
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged
Heinrich Heine -
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
Mark Twain -
Life is too short to learn German
Oscar Wilde -
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby -
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
Emily Dickinson -
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen -
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin -
The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.
Hugh Walpole -
Children see magic because they look for it.
Christopher Moore -
I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Jim Morrison -
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.
Elbert Hubbard -
He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
Neil Gaiman -
Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.
Scott Westerfeld -
My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'
Tupac Shakur -
Let the world change you and you can change the world
Che Guevara -
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion -
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Frank Herbert -
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain -
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt Cobain -
We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
Bill Watterson -
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
Coco Chanel -
He was part of my dream, of course — but then I was part of his dream, too.
Lewis Carroll -
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Kurt Cobain -
Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go
Hermann Hesse -
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr. -
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain -
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein -
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre -
Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
Marie Curie -
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl -
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Paul McCartney -
The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'
Maria Montessori -
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
Arthur Miller -
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
Buddha -
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn -
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!
Rudyard Kipling -
As time goes on, you'll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn't, doesn't. Time solves most things. And what time can't solve, you have to solve yourself.
Haruki Murakami -
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Ronald Reagan -
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn -
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Aesop -
I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris -
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller -
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan -
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain -
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Frank Herbert -
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
Jim Morrison -
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
Agatha Christie -
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa -
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius -
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie -
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson -
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.
Walt Whitman -
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
Frederick Buechner -
People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan -
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Matthew Arnold -
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton -
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins -
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein -
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine -
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur Ward -
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
John Quincy Adams -
What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.
Douglas Adams -
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton -
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.
Benjamin Franklin -
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie -
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam -
I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.
Philip Pullman -
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Audrey Hepburn -
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.
Joseph Campbell -
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau -
The more I know people, the more I love my dog.
Mark Twain -
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
David Nicholls -
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn -
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Schulz -
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma Bombeck -
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
Walker Percy -
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
Bill Watterson -
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
Chuck Palahniuk -
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams -
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
Albert Einstein -
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.
Richard Bach -
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.
Bob Marley -
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.
Cheryl Strayed -
Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Will Rogers -
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton -
I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
Chuck Palahniuk -
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James -
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
Hans Christian Andersen -
My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington -
All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Aldous Huxley -
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
Hans Christian Andersen -
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee -
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison -
If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi -
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
Miguel de Unamuno -
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
Malcolm X -
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.
Albert Camus -
Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein -
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell -
We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.
Arthur O'Shaughnessy -
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso -
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca -
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.
Milan Kundera -
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
Ernest Hemingway -
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley -
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck -
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
William Shakespeare -
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz -
Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.
Harvey Mackay -
What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.
Miranda July -
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.
Henry Ford -
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver -
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson -
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash -
When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place
C.S. Lewis -
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie Chaplin -
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
Confucius -
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
Deepak Chopra -
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry -
There's nothing inherently dirty about sex, but if you try real hard and use your imagination you can overcome that.
Lewis Grizzard -
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Tennessee Williams -
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher -
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Dalai Lama -
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Swami Vivekananda -
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.
Rudyard Kipling -
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
Janis Joplin -
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
George Sand -
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke -
Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.
Banksy -
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.
Maya Angelou -
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.
Joseph Campbell -
In order to write about life first you must live it.
Ernest Hemingway -
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein -
I am always doing what I can't do so I may learn how to do it.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
Bell hooks -
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Hans Christian Andersen -
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk -
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James -
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
John Waters -
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong -
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams
Tupac Shakur -
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
Primo Levi -
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
Jim Morrison -
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.
Albert Schweitzer -
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero -
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle -
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius -
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri -
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Tennessee Williams -
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking -
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
Dalai Lama -
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale -
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Henry Miller -
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers -
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Chuck Palahniuk -
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell -
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen -
Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy
Benjamin Franklin -
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody Allen -
The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.
Charles R. Swindoll -
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius -
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
John Wayne -
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.
Kahlil Gibran -
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham -
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
Amit Ray -
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda -
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.
Lou Holtz -
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett -
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......
Paramahansa Yogananda -
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Annie Dillard -
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Anthony Robbins -
To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is...at last, to love it for what it is, and then, to put it away...
Virginia Woolf -
The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
Charles Darwin -
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be
Roald Dahl -
Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
Joseph Brodsky -
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
Charles Bukowski -
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
Arthur Golden -
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi -
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Joan of Arc -
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen -
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James -
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.
Jiddu Krishnamurti -
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King -
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse -
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.
Louis L'Amour -
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey -
When you get to the end of all the light you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.
Edward Teller -
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Khalil Gibran -
I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.
Abraham Lincoln -
So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?
Anthony Doerr -
Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
Alice Sebold -
It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner -
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Andersen -
There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen -
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins -
By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be.
Irvine Welsh -
A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
Richard Bach -
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors."
William Blake -
Be so good they can't ignore you.
Steve Martin -
I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
Maya Angelou -
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
Oprah Winfrey -
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai -
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
Maya Angelou -
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde -
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Marcus Aurelius -
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore -
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
Kahlil Gibran -
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
Jim Rohn -
Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.
Warren Buffett -
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Martha Graham -
Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
Dr. Seuss -
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson -
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
Bell hooks -
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
Dr. Seuss -
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye -
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus -
I rebel; therefore I exist.
Albert Camus -
That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Khalil Gibran -
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
Howard Zinn -
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
Theodore Roosevelt -
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain -
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.
Zora Neale Hurston -
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.
Dolly Parton -
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
Emily Dickinson -
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle -
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
Abraham Lincoln -
It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.
Thomas Mann -
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
We cannot achieve our wildest dreams by remaining who we are
John C. Maxwell -
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's ok though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation.. so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type.. I'm like, "hey girl, magenta!" and she's like, "oh, you mean purple!" and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, "no - I want magenta!"
John Mayer -
Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
Emily Dickinson -
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams -
I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.
Maya Angelou -
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
Robert Frost -
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.
Bill Ayers -
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
Rabindranath Tagore -
This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare -
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde -
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
Henry James -
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!
Coco Chanel -
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino -
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie -
Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy
Isaac Newton -
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Kahlil Gibran -
There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don't expect you to save the world I do think it's not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your life those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.
Nikki Giovanni -
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Maya Angelou -
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
Kahlil Gibran -
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw -
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius -
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Elbert Hubbard -
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
Clive James -
How many people you bless is how you measure success
Rick Ross -
I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.
William S. Burroughs -
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
Victor Hugo -
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
Albert Einstein -
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson -
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau -
Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!
Gerard Way -
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Tennessee Williams -
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer -
Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen -
The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.
William Arthur Ward -
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
Arthur Golden -
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carver -
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown -
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
Susan B. Anthony -
Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.
Drake -
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Rudyard Kipling -
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London -
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein -
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Denis Waitley -
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein -
Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.
Henry Rollins -
Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.
James Patterson -
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley -
There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters, Who never did, Who won't anymore, And who always will. So, don't worry about people from your past, there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.
Adam Lindsay Gordon -
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
Marianne Williamson -
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce -
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer -
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Khalil Gibran -
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway -
I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
Richard Bach -
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Oprah Winfrey -
Life's like a play it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
Seneca -
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
George Orwell -
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren -
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson -
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein -
All I ever wanted was a world without maps.
Michael Ondaatje -
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman -
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
Abraham Maslow -
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie -
Music is an outburst of the soul.
Frederick Delius -
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus -
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Jack Kerouac -
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
Rachel Carson -
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
Geoffrey Chaucer -
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Albert Einstein -
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen -
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Jerome K. Jerome -
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Jimi Hendrix -
Life is not fair, get used to it
Bill Gates -
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers -
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield -
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
Al McGuire -
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
Robert Frost -
Never complain. Never explain.
Katharine Hepburn -
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham -
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
Mae West -
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
William Faulkner -
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
Kazuo Ishiguro -
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln -
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin -
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
Hunter S. Thompson -
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington -
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.
Drew Carey -
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Oscar Wilde -
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.
Katharine Hepburn -
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln -
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
John Lennon -
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw -
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.
Goldie Hawn -
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley -
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Oscar Wilde -
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake -
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
Georgia O'Keeffe -
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
Maya Angelou -
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire -
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel -
To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.
Franklin D. Roosevelt -
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison -
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
Guy de Maupassant -
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles -
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
Lucille Ball -
If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead -
One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.
George W. Bush -
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Margaret Mitchell -
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball -
Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.
Andrew Murray -
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach -
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs -
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams -
Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.
Jeannette Walls -
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill -
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Keller -
Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.
Robert Collier -
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Edmond de Goncourt -
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them
Margaret Mitchell -
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne -
Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.
Charles M. Schulz -
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
Leo F. Buscaglia -
Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
William Arthur Ward -
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
John Stuart Mill -
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder -
The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra -
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden -
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley -
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein -
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote -
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry Ford -
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir -
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
Martin Heidegger -
To err is human, but it feels divine.
Mae West