Famous Quotes

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.

~ J.k. Rowling

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

~ Matthew Quick

I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, aw shit, he's up!

~ Steve Maraboli

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

~ Sarah Dessen

It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Discipline Your Mind to Think Positively: Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Focus on your goals, not your fear. Focus like a laser beam on your goals.

~ Roy T. Bennett

When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.

~ Roy T. Bennett

I would rather be ashes than dust!I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.The function of man is to live, not to exist.I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.I shall use my time.

~ Jack London

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

~ Bob Marley

Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without itTo do a dangerous thing with style is what I call artBullfighting can be an artBoxing can be an artLoving can be an artOpening a can of sardines can be an artNot many have styleNot many can keep styleI have seen dogs with more style than men,although not many dogs have style.Cats have it with abundance.When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,that was style.Or sometimes people give you styleJoan of Arc had styleJohn the BaptistJesusSocratesCaesarGarcía Lorca.I have met men in jail with style.I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.

~ Charles Bukowski

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.

~ Shauna Niequist

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.

~ Joseph Campbell

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

~ Terry Pratchett

I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.

~ Sarah Dessen

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

~ Oprah Winfrey

It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.

~ J.d. Salinger

Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else's. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

~ Mitch Albom

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

~ Madeleine L'engle

Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.

~ Marc Riboud

Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You don’t have to like someone, but you have to treat them as you wish to be treated.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

~ Roy T. Bennett

It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we're wrong is courage, not weakness.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar

~ Jim Butcher

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.

~ Sarah Dessen

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others

~ Steve Maraboli

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

~ Michel Legrand

I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.

~ Walt Whitman

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

~ Steve Maraboli

He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.

~ Garth Stein

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

~ Jason Mraz

Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

~ Sarah Dessen