Famous Quotes

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.

~ Hermann Hesse

Scars are just another kind of memory.

~ M.l. Stedman

They laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at them because they're all the same.

~ Kurt Cobain

Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can't do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky's the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let's dance.

~ Tom Hiddleston

Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us, shedding light over this world can alone help us.

~ Walt Whitman

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

~ Gayle Forman

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

~ David Mitchell

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

~ J.k. Rowling

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

~ Alberto Manguel

If you have to dry the dishes (Such an awful boring chore)If you have to dry the dishes('Stead of going to the store)If you have to dry the dishesAnd you drop one on the floorMaybe they won't let youDry the dishes anymore

~ Shel Silverstein

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

~ Joseph Conrad

The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her, but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.

~ C. Joybell C.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

~ Victor Hugo

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.

~ Roald Dahl

And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.

~ Dorothy Parker

Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

~ Beatrix Potter

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

~ Wilfred Arlan Peterson

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

~ Henry David Thoreau

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.

~ Joss Whedon

Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?

~ Paullina Simons

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

~ Henri Bergson

Belief, like fear or love, is a force to be understood as we understand the theory of relativity and principals of uncertainty. Phenomena that determine the course of our lives. Yesterday, my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today. These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who weimagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. That each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction. Proposition, I have fallen in love with Luisa Rey. Is this possible? I just met her and yet, I feel like something important has happened to me.

~ David Mitchell

He not busy being born is busy dying.

~ Bob Dylan

What would you do if you weren't afraid?

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.

~ Rick Riordan

We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.

~ J.k. Rowling

What is now proved was once only imagined.

~ William Blake

Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.

~ Mikhail Bulgakov

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

~ Theodore Parker

Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

~ Charles Darwin

You can't connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

~ Steve Jobs

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.

~ Stephen Fry

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all?

~ Betty Friedan

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

~ Steve Maraboli

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.

~ Rick Riordan

The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.

~ Dan Brown

Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

~ Walt Disney Company