Famous Quotes

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

~ Bruce Lee

Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.

~ Joseph Conrad

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

~ Alan Moore

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.

~ Stephen Hawking

The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.

~ Maya Angelou

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up.As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean.He came closer still and called out Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?The young man paused, looked up, and replied Throwing starfish into the ocean.I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean? asked the somewhat startled wise man.To this, the young man replied, The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die.Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, It made a difference for that one.

~ Loren Eiseley

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

~ Isabel Allende

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

~ Philip Pullman

A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return

~ Anonymous

Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

~ Stephen King

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

~ Lucille Ball

In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.

~ Fred Rogers

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

~ G.k. Chesterton

She made broken look beautifuland strong look invincible.She walked with the Universeon her shoulders and made itlook like a pair of wings.

~ Ariana Dancu

For Equilibrium, a Blessing:Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.As the wind loves to call things to dance,May your gravity by lightened by grace.Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.As water takes whatever shape it is in,So free may you be about who you become.As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,May your sense of irony bring perspective.As time remains free of all that it frames,May your mind stay clear of all it names.May your prayer of listening deepen enoughto hear in the depths the laughter of god.

~ John O'donohue

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

~ Andy Warhol

Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?

~ Sam Harris

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

~ Sigmund Freud

Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

~ Maya Angelou

Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?

~ Bernard M. Baruch

Am I weird?Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.

~ Stephen King

If you can dream it, you can do it.

~ Walt Disney Company

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

~ Henrik Ibsen

I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

~ Dolly Parton

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

~ Chris Colfer

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

~ Flannery O'connor

Words save our lives, sometimes.

~ Neil Gaiman

Happiness cannot be pursued, it must ensue.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.

~ J.k. Rowling

LAW 25Re-Create YourselfDo not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.

~ Robert Greene

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

~ Otto Rank

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

~ Marcus Aurelius

I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probablybecome as ordinary as they expect you to be.

~ Kelly Cutrone

The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.

~ William Arthur Ward

Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. We all know individuals who did not fulfill the promise they showed in childhood. Many of them became haunted by the image of what they might have become. Instead of blaming fate, I think we should accept ourselves as we are and try to fulfill whatever dreams are within our capability.Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make a difference, whether it is to probe the secrets of Nature, to clean up the environment and work for peace and social justice, or to nurture the inquisitive, vibrant spirit of the young by being a mentor and a guide.

~ Michio Kaku

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.

~ Ansel Adams

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

~ James Gordon

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

~ Joseph Campbell