Famous Quotes

Going back to something is harder than you think.

~ Mitch Albom

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

We never live, we are always in the expectation of living.

~ Voltaire

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

~ Stephen Hawking

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

~ Mark Twain

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun, it cannot be contained.

~ Alice Sebold

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

~ Mitch Albom

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

~ Jennifer E. Smith

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

~ George R.r. Martin

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.

~ Randall Munroe

In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.

~ Mitch Albom

I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.

~ Melody Beattie

When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.

~ Ann Brashares

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

~ Arundhati Roy

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.

~ Steve Maraboli

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

~ Thornton Wilder

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

~ George Eliot

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Life is a long lesson in humility.

~ J.m. Barrie

Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

~ Steve Maraboli

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

~ Nicholas Sparks

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

~ Criss Jami

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

~ Brian Tracy

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.

~ Laura Hillenbrand

Beauty is a whore, I like money better.

~ Michael Cunningham

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

~ Jimmy Carter

You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

~ Confucius

When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you.

~ C. Joybell C.

Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

~ James J. Lachard

Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.

~ Roy T. Bennett

To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Be careful the stories you're telling yourself about your current circumstances, a head full of negative thoughts has no space for positive ones.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

~ Nicholas Sparks