Famous Quotes

Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

~ John Green

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.

~ Paulo Coelho

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

~ Raymond E. Feist

Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You were not born on earth to please anyone; you have to live life to express yourself, not to impress someone. Don't pretend to be someone you're not, and never lose yourself in search of other people's acceptance and approval.

~ Roy T. Bennett

How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary, be that “extra” in “extraordinary.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You cannot escape the consequences of your choices, whether you like them or not.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

All knowledge is worth having.

~ Jacqueline Carey

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

~ William Shakespeare

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

~ C.g. Jung

Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.

~ William Stafford

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.

~ Charles Addams

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

~ Henry Rollins

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

~ Albert Einstein

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.

~ Steve Maraboli

When you make a choice, you change the future.

~ Deepak Chopra

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

There's no advantage to hurrying through life. -Shikamaru Nara

~ Masashi Kishimoto

It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.

~ Steve Maraboli

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

~ Anne Lamott

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

~ Edgar Allan Poe

It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.

~ George Carlin

Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.

~ Nikki Sixx

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

~ Lance Armstrong

And when I saw him[my father] lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we're on our own.

~ Cassandra Clare

Jamie: You know what I figured out today?Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.

~ Nicholas Sparks

What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.

~ Jennifer Niven

We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.

~ Marie Lu

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.

~ Lana Del Rey

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Change course, but don’t give up.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute it from the shore.

~ Cheryl Strayed