Famous Quotes

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

~ Paulo Coelho

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

~ Frank Zappa

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

~ Steve Maraboli

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

~ Oprah Winfrey

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

~ Cassandra Clare

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

~ George Bernard Shaw

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

~ Anaïs Nin

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

~ Terry Pratchett

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

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

All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.

~ Mitch Albom

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

~ Peter Shaffer

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

~ Jasper Fforde

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

~ Yann Martel

There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.

~ Khaled Hosseini

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

~ John Lennon

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.

~ Albert Schweitzer

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

~ Confucius

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

~ Stephen Chbosky

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

~ Dr. Seuss

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

~ Bob Marley

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

~ Charles Darwin

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

~ Harvey Fierstein

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

~ Bill Watterson

Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.

~ Sun Tzu

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

~ Ayn Rand

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.

~ Steve Maraboli

Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.

~ Haruki Murakami

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

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

~ Roy T. Bennett

make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.

~ Jon Krakauer

If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.

~ Roy T. Bennett

When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.

~ John Green

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

~ Ben Okri

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

~ Helen Keller

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

~ Erica Jong