Famous Quotes

That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.

~ Leila Sales

If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.

~ C. Joybell C.

I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..

~ John Green

What if I mess up?Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me.What's that?Stay alive long enough to mess up again.

~ Victoria Schwab

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people, to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.

~ William Arthur Ward

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

~ John Steinbeck

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

~ Confucius

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

~ Goldie Hawn

Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.

~ Julio Cortázar

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particularly long to learn that for yourself. There is a theory that, in the whole world, there are only five hundred real people (the cast, as it were; all the rest of the people in the world, the theory suggests, are extras) and what is more, they all know each other. And it's true, or true as far as it goes. In reality the world is made of thousands upon thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each other, trying to avoid each other, and discovering each other in the same unlikely teashop in Vancouver. There is an unavoidability to this process. It's not even coincidence. It's just the way the world works, with no regard for individuals or for propriety.

~ Neil Gaiman

Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost.

~ Erol Ozan

What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: In the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was just a slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By accident, because that is the way most things happen, she poked a hole in the night and out spilled a million stars, like a fountain of tears.Horrified, the moon tried to swallow them up. And sometimes this worked, because she got fatter and rounder.. But mostly it didn't, because there were just so many. The stars kept coming, until they made the sky so bright that the sun got jealous. He invited the stars to his side of the world, where it was always bright. What he didn't tell them, though, was that in the daytime, they'd never be seen. So the stupid ones leaped from the sky to the ground, and they froze under the weight of their own foolishness.The moon did her best. She carved each of these blocks of sorrow into a man or a woman. She spent the rest of her time watching out so that her other stars wouldn't fall. She spent the rest of her time holding onto whatever scraps she had left.

~ Jodi Picoult

you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.

~ Ilona Andrews

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

~ George Eliot

Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.

~ Brené Brown

Fate loves the fearless.

~ James Russell Lowell

Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven.

~ C. Joybell C.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

~ Tana French

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?

~ John Green

You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought.

~ Rick Riordan

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

~ Ellen Goodman

The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

~ Marjorie Pay Hinckley

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

~ Oscar Wilde

Did you ever, when you were little, endure your parents’ warnings, then wait for them to leave the room, pry loose protective covers and consider inserting some metal object into an electrical outlet? Did you wonder if for once you might light up the room? When you were big enough to cross the street on your own, did you ever wait for a signal, hear the frenzied approach of a fire truck and feel like stepping out in front of it? Did you wonder just how far that rocket ride might take you? When you were almost grown, did you ever sit in a bubble bath, perspiration pooling, notice a blow dryer plugged in within easy reach, and think about dropping it into the water? Did you wonder if the expected rush might somehow fail you? And now, do you ever dangle your toes over the precipice, dare the cliff to crumble, defy the frozen deity to suffer the sun, thaw feather and bone, take wing to fly you home?

~ Ellen Hopkins

There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself, you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Truth is not something outside to be discovered, it is something inside to be realized.

~ Osho

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

~ Ani Difranco

When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren't either! Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different. And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white. Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, and He dances on the grey! Grey is okay.

~ C. Joybell C.

I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade...and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

~ Ron White

Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.

~ Lewis Carroll

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

~ Joseph Brodsky

Be so good they can't ignore you.

~ Steve Martin

Never compete with someone who has nothing to lose.

~ Baltasar Gracián

All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchelAnd shining morning face, creeping like snailUnwillingly to school. And then the lover,Sighing like furnace, with a woeful balladMade to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,Seeking the bubble reputationEven in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,In fair round belly with good capon lined,With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,Full of wise saws and modern instances;And so he plays his part. The sixth age shiftsInto the lean and slippered pantaloon,With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wideFor his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,Turning again toward childish treble, pipesAnd whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,That ends this strange eventful history,Is second childishness and mere oblivion,Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

~ William Shakespeare

When you are measuring life, you are not living it.

~ Mitch Albom

But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.

~ Jim Butcher