Famous Quotes

There's no benchmark for how life's supposed to happen. There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, it's up to you how you respond to it.

~ Isaac Marion

People don’t like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

~ Helen Keller

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route.

~ Tom Robbins

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still;So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.

~ Robert W. Service

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

~ Ray Bradbury

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

~ Suzanne Collins

There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say I will be ready when I am perfect because then you will never be ready, rather one must say I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.

~ C. Joybell C.

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.

~ Mitch Albom

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

~ Anita Shreve

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

~ Patrick Ness

I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.

~ Sabrina Ward Harrison

When all else fails, there's always delusion.

~ Conan O'brien

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

~ Martin Amis

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

~ Epictetus

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.

~ Brom

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

~ Lin Yutang

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

~ Franz Kafka

Hate is nothing when weighed against survival. (Valentine)

~ Cassandra Clare

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

~ Red Haircrow

Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go.

~ Lana Del Rey

A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.

~ J.d. Stroube

You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ.

~ Woody Allen

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

~ Alan Bennett

The best stories don't come from good vs. bad but good vs. good.

~ Leo Tolstoy

She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on.

~ Kate Atkinson

People are the most difficult thing in the world to change

~ Gena Showalter

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

~ Brian Tracy

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

~ Marvin Gaye

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

~ Alexandre Dumas

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

~ Virginia Woolf

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

~ Virginia Woolf

Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.

~ Jim Henson

We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us.

~ Ken Levine

How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

~ Robert Galbraith

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

~ Terry Pratchett

Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade...

~ King James Gadsden

We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

~ Patrick Ness

So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder…

~ Jostein Gaarder