Famous Quotes

Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think? Will said. It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all.

~ Cassandra Clare

Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.

~ C. Joybell C.

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.

~ A.j. Russell

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

~ Haruki Murakami

Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.

~ Roy T. Bennett

No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind.

~ Roy T. Bennett

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

~ David Cook

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them.

~ Mitch Albom

Life is but a day,A fragile dew-drop on its perilous wayFrom a tree’s summit.

~ John Keats

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

~ Jane Austen

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada.

~ Ellen Degeneres

...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

~ Jane Austen

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

~ Virginia Woolf

How would your life be different if…You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.

~ Steve Maraboli

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

~ E.m. Forster

My life is a reading list.

~ John Irving

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

~ Alan W. Watts

No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest.

~ John O'donohue

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

~ Oscar Wilde

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.

~ Edward Gorey

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

~ Helen Keller

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

~ Lois Lowry

When we're connected to others, we become better people.

~ Randy Pausch

I'm sure you think that I don't understand what you're going through, but I do. It's just that sometimes, our future is dictated by what we are, opposed to what we want.

~ Nicholas Sparks

By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your fucking life.

~ Tina Fey

Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.

~ Roy T. Bennett

There is no more profitable investment than investing in yourself. It is the best investment you can make, you can never go wrong with it. It is the true way to improve yourself to be the best version of you and lets you be able to best serve those around you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

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 okay 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

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

~ Stephen King

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Instructions for freedom:1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.2. You have just climbed up and above the roof, there is nothing between you and the Infinite; now, let go.3. The day is ending, it's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, let go.4. Your wish for resolution was a prayer. You are being here is God's response, let go and watch the stars came out, in the inside and in the outside.5. With all your heart ask for Grace and let go. 6. With all your heart forgive him, forgive yourself and let him go.7. Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering then, let go.8. Watch the heat of day pass into the cold night, let go.9. When the Karma of a relationship is done, only Love remains. It's safe, let go.10. When the past has past from you at last, let go.. then, climb down and begin the rest of your life with great joy.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds.

~ R.j. Palacio

It was ironic, really - you want to die because you can't be bothered to go on living - but then you're expected to get all energetic and move furniture and stand on chairs and hoist ropes and do complicated knots and attach things to other things and kick stools from under you and mess around with hot baths and razor blades and extension cords and electrical appliances and weedkiller. Suicide was a complicated, demanding business, often involving visits to hardware shops.And if you've managed to drag yourself from the bed and go down the road to the garden center or the drug store, by then the worst is over. At that point you might as well just go to work.

~ Marian Keyes

Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get.

~ Stephanie Perkins

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

~ Arthur Golden

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

~ Henry Miller