Famous Quotes

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;Who has left the world better than he found it,Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;Whose life was an inspiration;Whose memory a benediction.

~ Bessie Anderson Stanley

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'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

~ Jimi Hendrix

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

~ Mark Twain

I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

~ Sylvia Plath

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

~ Albert Einstein

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

~ Anne Frank

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

~ J.k. Rowling

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there

~ George Harrison

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

~ Isaac Asimov

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

~ George V. Higgins

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

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

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

~ Mitch Albom

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

~ Michael Cunningham

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

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

~ Margaret Mead

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.Delicious Ambiguity.

~ Gilda Radner

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

~ E.b. White

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

May you live every day of your life.

~ Jonathan Swift

These woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.

~ Robert Frost

There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.

~ John Green

Get busy living or get busy dying.

~ Stephen King

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

~ J.m. Barrie

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

~ May Sarton

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

~ Oscar Wilde

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

~ Rick Riordan

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

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

~ John Greenleaf Whittier

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

~ Ayn Rand

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

~ Walt Disney Company

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

~ Cassandra Clare

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is.

~ Chad Sugg

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 most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters.

~ Audrey Hepburn

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

~ Søren Kierkegaard