Famous Quotes

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

~ Peter S. Beagle

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

~ Anne Frank

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

~ Charles Bukowski

Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

~ Mark Twain

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

~ Muhammad Ali

All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

~ Conan O'brien

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

~ Harry Truman

Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

~ Joseph Campbell

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

~ William Golding

There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… Or so says the legend.

~ Colleen Mccullough

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

~ Ronald Reagan

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

~ Pandora Poikilos

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

~ Samuel Beckett

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

~ Winston S. Churchill

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

~ Abraham Lincoln

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

~ Wendelin Van Draanen

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

~ Richelle Mead

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

~ John Keats

The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.

~ Pittacus Lore

In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.

~ C. Joybell C.

Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there.

~ Haruki Murakami

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

~ Seneca

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

~ Jodi Picoult

An eye is meant to see things.The soul is here for its own joy.A head has one use: For loving a true love.Feet: To chase after.Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,for learning what men have done and tried to do.Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blindwhen it only wants to see why.A lover is always accused of something.But when he finds his love, whatever was lostin the looking comes back completely changed.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.

~ Romain Rolland

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.

~ Thomas A. Edison

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.

~ Maya Angelou

Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.

~ Hiromu Arakawa

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

~ Thomas A. Edison

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar