Famous Quotes

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

~ Henry Ford

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

~ Anne Lamott

It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

~ Konstantin Stanislavski

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

~ J.k. Rowling

What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.

~ John Lubbock

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

~ Marilyn Monroe

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

~ Bruce Lee

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

~ Jon Krakauer

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

~ Thomas Jefferson

It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Do your best and let God do the rest.

~ Ben Carson

Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.

~ Santosh Kalwar

You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.

~ Cynthia Kersey

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

~ Thomas Bernhard

May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.

~ Thomas S. Monson

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.

~ Leo Tolstoy

There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.

~ John Green

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

~ Brandon Sanderson

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

~ Jodi Picoult

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. And of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered.

~ Aldous Huxley

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

~ Aristotle

It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

~ Karen Marie Moning

To be in your children's memories tomorrow,You have to be in their lives today.

~ Barbara Johnson

If I must fall, may it be from a high place.

~ Paulo Coelho

My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.

~ Paulo Coelho

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?

~ Salvador Dalí

Life is wasted on the living.

~ Douglas Adams

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.

~ Merce Cunningham

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory

~ Paulo Coelho

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

~ Ray Bradbury

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick

~ Jeanne Birdsall

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,Or what's a heaven for?

~ Robert Browning

Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average-- though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.

~ R.j. Palacio

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

~ Emma Goldman