...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.
~ Richelle Mead
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.
~ John Keats
The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.
~ Pittacus Lore
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki
I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.
~ C. Joybell C.
Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.
~ Haruki Murakami
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
~ Seneca
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
~ Jodi Picoult
An eye is meant to see things.The soul is here for its own joy.A head has one use: For loving a true love.Feet: To chase after.Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,for learning what men have done and tried to do.Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why.A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.
~ Romain Rolland
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
~ Maya Angelou
Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.
~ Hiromu Arakawa
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
~ Vince Lombardi Jr.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
~ Hermann Hesse
Scars are just another kind of memory.
~ M.l. Stedman
They laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at them because they're all the same.
~ Kurt Cobain
Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.
~ Tom Hiddleston
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us, shedding light over this world can alone help us.
~ Walt Whitman
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.
~ Gayle Forman
...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.
~ David Mitchell
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
~ Ellen Degeneres
Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
~ J.k. Rowling
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
~ Alberto Manguel
If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore)If you have to dry the dishes('Stead of going to the store)If you have to dry the dishesAnd you drop one on the floorMaybe they won't let youDry the dishes anymore
~ Shel Silverstein
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.
~ Joseph Conrad
The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her, but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
~ Victor Hugo
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
And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.
~ Dorothy Parker
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
~ Beatrix Potter