Famous Quotes

Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

~ James Frey

Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

~ Claudia Gray

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

~ Sarah Dessen

I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth of what I am today -- whatever that may be. In my teenage years, his writings awoke me to the possibilities of language. His rhythms, tropes, tricks and mannerisms are deep within me.But more than that, he taught me something about good nature. It is enough to be benign, to be gentle, to be funny, to be kind.

~ Stephen Fry

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

~ Corey Taylor

Don't leave it all unsaid,somewhere in the wasteland of your head.

~ Morrissey

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

~ Steve Maraboli

How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

~ Steve Maraboli

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?

~ Steve Maraboli

You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable, even the bad ones

~ Cassandra Clare

A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.

~ Rick Riordan

Find ecstasy in life, the mere sense of living is joy enough.

~ Emily Dickinson

A quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.

~ Napoleon Hill

I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn't notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.

~ Michael Summers

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

~ George R.r. Martin

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

~ Carl Sagan

Progress just means bad things happen faster.

~ Terry Pratchett

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.

~ Anton Chekhov

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

~ Jodi Picoult

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't..

~ Dr. Seuss

Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.

~ D.h. Lawrence

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

~ Toba Beta

And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in you life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.

~ Mark Haddon

Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

~ Henry James

Integrity is doing what is right and truthful, and doing as you say you would do.

~ Roy T. Bennett

What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.

~ Deepak Chopra

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

~ Goldie Hawn

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

Life sucks, and then you die.Yeah, I should be so lucky.

~ Stephenie Meyer

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success.

~ Brian Tracy

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them

~ Denis Waitley

Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.

~ David Rossi

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

~ Scott Adams

Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.

~ Paul Murray

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

~ Samuel Beckett

Life is not a straight line leading from one blessing to the next and then finally to heaven. Life is a winding and troubled road. Switchback after switchback. And the point of biblical stories like Joseph and Job and Esther and Ruth is to help us feel in our bones (not just know in our heads) that God is for us in all these strange turns. God is not just showing up after the trouble and cleaning it up. He is plotting the course and managing the troubles with far-reaching purposes for our good and for the glory of Jesus Christ.

~ John Piper

When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves.

~ Steve Maraboli

I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver, the engine of the heart and lungs and blood and feel amazed at what I sensed was the enormity of the power I possessed. Not magical power, but real power. The power simply to go on, the power to endure, that is power enough, but I felt I had also the power to create, to add, to delight, to amaze and to transform.

~ Stephen Fry

If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what.

~ Roy T. Bennett