Famous Quotes

Life itself is the proper binge.

~ Julia Child

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

~ Helen Keller

Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing largerThan your own small heartOr greater than a star;Tame wild disappointmentWith caress unmoved and coldMake of it a parkaFor your soul.Discover the reason whySo tiny human midgetExists at allSo scared unwiseBut expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.

~ Alice Walker

when we were kidslaying around the lawnon ourbellieswe often talkedabouthowwe'd like todieandwe allagreed on thesamething,we'd alllike to diefucking(althoughnone of ushaddone anyfucking)and nowthatwe are hardlykidsany longerwe think moreabouthownot todieandalthoughwe'rereadymost ofuswouldprefer todo italoneunder thesheetsnowthatmost ofushave fuckedour livesaway.

~ Charles Bukowski

Stop giving your life away to other people.

~ Steve Maraboli

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.

~ Thomas Aquinas

My name is Jimmy,but my friends just call methe hideous penguin boy.

~ Tim Burton

I always felt like you had to be important to have enemies.

~ John Green

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Live your life. Be happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.

~ Kiera Cass

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

~ Mitsugi Saotome

Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?

~ Tom Stoppard

If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence.

~ Toba Beta

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

~ Jim Rohn

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

~ A.c. Grayling

Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable.

~ Voltaire

Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

~ Steve Maraboli

We are the sum of all people we have ever met, you change the tribe and the tribe changes you.

~ Dirk Wittenborn

Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed.

~ Haruki Murakami

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

~ William Faulkner

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

~ Criss Jami

Love doesn't make the world go 'round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

~ Joelle Charbonneau

It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which you arewithout passionate loveis the most wasted day of your life.

~ Omar Khayyám

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

~ Maya Angelou

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter

~ Diane Setterfield

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.

~ Douglas Coupland

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

~ Jeanette Winterson

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.

~ Charles Bukowski

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

~ Brian Tracy

It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.

~ Steve Maraboli

This autumn-why am I growing old?bird disappearing among clouds.

~ Bashō Matsuo

The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.

~ Joseph Campbell

Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.

~ Philip Pullman

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

~ Sarah Dessen

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.

~ Graham Greene

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.

~ Phil Lester

The thing is, you can’t always have the best of everything. Because for a life to be real, you need it all: good and bad, beach and concrete, the familiar and the unknown, big talkers and small towns.

~ Sarah Dessen