Famous Quotes

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

~ Henry Ward Beecher

The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.

~ Steve Maraboli

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place

~ Iain Thomas

No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.

~ Pittacus Lore

Anything under God's control is never out of control.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win.

~ Judith Mcnaught

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

~ Albert Einstein

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

~ Richard Bach

Written words can also sing.

~ Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!

~ Chuck Palahniuk

it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

~ Joyce Meyer

You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?

~ David Nicholls

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

We don't receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

~ Marcel Proust

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

~ Ben Carson

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I am a flawed person. A brook with many stones, a clear blue sky with many blackbirds. I have many shortcomings. A rainbow that’s not long enough, a starry night with clouds. But I can only be thankful to the God who loves me just this way, and I can only be grateful to the people in my life who accept the clear blue sky with many blackbirds and who are patient with the rainbow that isn’t long enough. And because of this, I am taught love, because of this I love my God, and I love these people.

~ C. Joybell C.

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

~ Hafiz

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.

~ Natsuki Takaya

Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something.

~ Audrey Niffenegger

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.

~ Walt Whitman

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

~ Oscar Wilde

If I've learned one lesson from all that's happened to me, it's that there is no such thing as the biggest mistake of your existence. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

~ Sophie Kinsella

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

~ Steve Maraboli

Done is better than perfect.

~ Sheryl Sandberg

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

~ Socrates

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.

~ Robert M. Drake

We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

~ Douglas Coupland

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

~ Randy Pausch

Step follows step,Hope follows Courage,Set your face towards danger,Set your heart on victory.

~ Gail Carson Levine

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

~ Betty Smith

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

~ Ronald Reagan

Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don’t usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

~ Abraham Verghese