Famous Quotes

How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.

~ Steve Maraboli

A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.

~ Sophie Kinsella

Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair.Even when all doors remain closed, God wil open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that has been denied.

~ Elif Shafak

The story of my recent life.' I like that phrase. It makes more sense than 'the story of my life', because we get so many lives between birth and death. A life to be a child. A life to come of age. A life to wander, to settle, to fall in love, to parent, to test our promise, to realize our mortality- and in some lucky cases, to do something after that realization.

~ Mitch Albom

A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief,its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.

~ Omar Khayyám

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

~ Leslye Walton

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

~ George R.r. Martin

Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. It was, instead, running madly, in a crowded schedule, in a squirrel cage of busy people. Working, living, dancing, dreaming, talking, kissing- singing, laughing, learning.

~ Sylvia Plath

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it. - Socrates

~ Dan Millman

Life is but a dream for the dead.

~ Gerard Way

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

~ Ernesto Che Guevara

I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.

~ Steve Maraboli

dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.

~ Natalie Babbitt

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, harmless sounding phrases that people uses every day, like: 'Be realistic!' (2009)]

~ Dylan Moran

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

~ Jodi Picoult

Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it.

~ Roy T. Bennett

We remember the past, live in the present, and write the future.

~ Shaun David Hutchinson

I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires dangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth.

~ Sylvia Plath

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Because, sometimes, things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

~ Suzanne Collins

His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.

~ Emily Giffin

it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.

~ Rupi Kaur

Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!

~ Charles M. Schulz

You know why love stories have happy endings?” I shake my head.“Because they end too early,” she continues. “They always end right at the kiss. You never have to see all the bullshit that comes later. You know, Life.

~ Hank Moody

If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions.

~ Quentin Tarantino

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

~ Conan O'brien

Why can’t the world hear? I ask myself. Within a few moments I ask it many times. Because it doesn’t care, I finally answer, and I know I’m right. It’s like I’ve been chosen. But chosen for what? I ask.

~ Markus Zusak

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

~ Mary Hoffman

Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.

~ Roy T. Bennett

We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.

~ R.a. Salvatore

Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry,but do you dream of Heaven?Have you ever wanted to die?

~ Tim Burton

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! Life flies,One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

~ Omar Khayyám

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first.

~ Quentin R. Bufogle

The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.

~ C.s. Lewis