Famous Quotes

But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way. In any case, while it is all very well to talk of 'turning points', one can surely only recognize such moments in retrospect. Naturally, when one looks back to such instances today, they may indeed take the appearance of being crucial, precious moments in one's life; but of course, at the time, this was not the impression one had. Rather, it was as though one had available a never-ending number of days, months, years in which to sort out the vagaries of one's relationship with Miss Kenton; an infinite number of further opportunities in which to remedy the effect of this or that misunderstanding. There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

~ Antonio Machado

All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words.

~ Ming-Dao Deng

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

~ Robert Jordan

Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it.

~ Alysha Speer

It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.

~ Andre Agassi

Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn’t make you a weak person. It’s hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it’s a maybe. A ‘maybe someday things won’t always be this shit.’ And that ‘maybe’ immediately makes the shittiness better.

~ Cecelia Ahern

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

~ Jodi Picoult

Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.

~ Amit Ray

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

~ Santosh Kalwar

So I would choose to be with you,That's if the choice were mine to make,But you can make decisions too,And you can have this heart to break

~ Billy Joel

Life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words. Men were rude and outspoken, women were always kind, gracious and forgiving.

~ Margaret Mitchell

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

~ Joe L. Wheeler

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.

~ P.c. Cast

there isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails.

~ Raymond Carver

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

~ Rob Sheffield

Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears. In the end that’s all there is: love and its duty, sorrow and its truth. In the end that’s all we have - to hold on tight until the dawn

~ Gregory David Roberts

Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

~ Mary Harris Jones

When mice run, cats give chase.

~ Rachel Vincent

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

~ William S. Burroughs

But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it.

~ Iain Thomas

We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.

~ Carl Sagan

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the Earth—can bring to a standstill the aerial traffic over an entire continent is a reminder of how, with all its power to transform nature, humankind remains just another species on the planet Earth.

~ Slavoj Žižek

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

~ Terence Mckenna

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

~ Jean M. Auel

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future, they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.

~ Radiohead

You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.

~ J.k. Rowling

You have succeeded in life when all you really WANT is only what you really NEED.

~ Vernon Howard

To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.

~ Richie Norton

The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.

~ C. Joybell C.

Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.

~ Rick Riordan

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

~ Libba Bray

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

~ Beverly Sills