Famous Quotes

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.

~ Jo Nesbø

EARLY BIRDOh, if you’re a bird, be an early birdAnd catch the worm for your breakfast plate.If you’re a bird, be an early early bird--But if you’re a worm, sleep late.

~ Shel Silverstein

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend.

~ Bruce Lee

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.

~ Julian Barnes

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

~ Seán O'casey

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

~ Bob Dylan

Surround Yourself with Positive People Who Believe in Your DreamsDistance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life.Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.

~ Roy T. Bennett

When you take control of your attitude, you take control of your life.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

~ Marcus Aurelius

The Laughing Heartyour life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is a light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods will offer you chances.know them.take them.you can’t beat death butyou can beat death in life, sometimes.and the more often you learn to do it,the more light there will be.your life is your life.know it while you have it.you are marvelousthe gods wait to delightin you.

~ Charles Bukowski

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

~ George Gordon Byron

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life

~ Jack Kerouac

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

~ Graham Greene

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

~ Anne Rice

E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.

~ Anne Lamott

Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.

~ James Patterson

I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

~ Thomas Keller

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

~ Ian Mcewan

The beautiful is always bizarre.

~ Charles Baudelaire

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

~ Jane Austen

There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the room. Like, I realize that this is irrational, but when they tell you that you have, say, a 20 percent chance of living five years, the math kicks in and you figure that’s one in five . . . so you look around and think, as any healthy person would: I gotta outlast four of these bastards.

~ John Green

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

~ Brian Tracy

The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

~ Roy T. Bennett

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

~ Søren Kierkegaard

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

~ Chuck Palahniuk