Famous Quotes

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

~ C.s. Lewis

People say that eyes are windows to the soul.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

~ Marcus Aurelius

It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

~ Charles Bukowski

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

~ Alan W. Watts

For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

~ T.s. Eliot

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

~ Albert Camus

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

~ Pascal Mercier

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

~ Jack Kerouac

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

~ Johnny Depp

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

I see it all perfectly, there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

~ Elvis Presley

To travel is to live.

~ Hans Christian Andersen

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

~ Willa Cather

The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.

~ Steve Maraboli

You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.

~ Roy T. Bennett

A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.

~ Roy T. Bennett

It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.

~ Roy T. Bennett

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...

~ Mitch Albom

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

~ Yoko Ono

There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.”“And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick.“Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

~ John Green

A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

~ John Grogan

Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

~ Charlotte Brontë

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

~ John Green

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

~ Markus Zusak

There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer? And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carelessly knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass) or who had no glass at all, because he was at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman's eye.

~ Terry Pratchett

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

~ Douglas Adams

All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.

~ Will Rogers

But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

~ Emily Giffin

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

~ Bill Watterson

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.

~ Patrick Rothfuss