Famous Quotes

... millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

~ Susan Ertz

You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.-Allison

~ Julie Kagawa

If people make fun of you, that probably means you're doing something right.

~ Evanescence

You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I had a dream about you. You were an escalator, and I was a flight of stairs. You thought I was a Luddite, and I thought I was as ostrich, because I hadn’t figured out how to put the fly in flight. One day you broke down, and then you saw that you and I weren’t so different after all.

~ Dora J. Arod

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

~ Alice Sebold

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on. Not forever, perhaps, but for a time. It's a kind of immortality, I suppose, bounded by limits, it's true, but then so's everything.

~ Charles De Lint

You need to spend time crawling alone through shadows to truly appreciate what it is to stand in the sun.

~ Shaun Hick

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

~ George Moore

Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.

~ Steve Maraboli

There’s a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.

~ Gena Showalter

The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

~ Samuel Beckett

One of the things I love about books is being able to define and condense certain portions of a character's life into chapters. It's intriguing, because you can't do this with real life. You can't just end a chapter, then skip the things you don't want to live through, only to open it up to a chapter that better suits your mood. Life can't be divided into chapters... only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath.I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how.

~ Colleen Hoover

There are five people you meet in heaven. Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

~ Mitch Albom

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

You enter the forestat the darkest point,where there is no path.Where there is a way or path,it is someone else's path.You are not on your own path.If you follow someone else's way,you are not going to realizeyour potential.

~ Joseph Campbell

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?

~ Andrew Clements

Life isn’t fair. I said. It’s taken me a while to get that. It’s always going to disappoint you in some way or another. You’ll make plans, and it’ll push you in another direction. You will love people, and they’ll be taken away no matter how hard you fight to keep them. You’ll try for something and won’t get it. You don’t have to find meaning in it; you don’t have to try to change things. You just have to accept the things that are out of your hands and try to take care of yourself. That’s your job.

~ Alexandra Bracken

Exactly! said Deep Thought. So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.

~ Douglas Adams

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

~ Brian Tracy

It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

~ Stephen Chbosky

See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?? Losing weight and looking like the poor.

~ Aravind Adiga

Single” is an opportunity to live life on your own terms and not apologize.

~ Mandy Hale

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

~ Fernando Pessoa

To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it.

~ C. Joybell C.

I can’t really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.

~ Hilary Duff

If you have kindness in your heart, you offer acts of kindness to touch the hearts of others wherever you go—whether they are random or planned. Kindness becomes a way of life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.

~ Gerard Way

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

~ Franz Kafka

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

~ Daniel Keyes

Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.

~ Eric Idle

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving. If I could have physically passed away, just let it all go, like that, without doing anything, stepped out of life as easily as walking through a door I would have done. But I was going to sleep at night and waking in the morning, disappointed to be there and resigned to existence.

~ Neil Gaiman

I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

~ Carrie Fisher

That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

~ Charles Dickens

Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.

~ Neil Gaiman

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

~ Mindy Kaling

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

~ Flannery O'connor