Famous Quotes

Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.

~ Sarah Ockler

You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory.

~ Steve Maraboli

Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There's no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.

~ Carrie Hope Fletcher

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

~ Kathryn Stockett

LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

~ Robert Greene

Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.

~ Anna Godbersen

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

~ Ernesto Che Guevara

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

~ Jon Krakauer

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

~ Frida Kahlo

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

~ Mother Teresa

If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

~ Thomas A. Edison

I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

~ Charles De Lint

It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

~ Tyler Perry

Do you know what you are?You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself;everything that you want, you are already that.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity growswith the ability to say no to oneself.

~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people.In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half.

~ Haruki Murakami

Don't give up the fight,Stand up for your rights.

~ Bob Marley

I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.

~ Stieg Larsson

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.

~ Max Lucado

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

~ Neil Gaiman

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It's all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don't worry, just be happy. You are already free!

~ Dan Millman

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

~ Joseph Campbell

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.

~ Hermann Hesse

Sometimes, as we're stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.

~ Susan Ee

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

~ Chris Colfer

And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

~ Stephen Chbosky

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.

~ J.k. Rowling

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

~ John Milton

I am who I am; no more, no less.

~ Terry Goodkind

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

~ Eudora Welty

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

~ James Dean

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

~ James R. Sherman

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.

~ John Connolly

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

~ Emily Dickinson

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

~ John Boyle O'reilly