Famous Quotes

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

~ Stephen King

The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.

~ Sanober Khan

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

~ Bob Dylan

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

~ A.a. Milne

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper...

~ Demi Lovato

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

~ Susanna Kaysen

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

~ Winston S. Churchill

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.

~ Jojo Moyes

You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul

~ Renee Carlino

Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.

~ Paulo Coelho

You don't know, oh, ohYou don't know you're beautiful.

~ One Direction

if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.

~ John C. Maxwell

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

~ Mitch Albom

Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

~ Lewis Black

It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

~ Albert Einstein

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.

~ Melina Marchetta

Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.

~ Yehuda Bauer

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.

~ Robert M. Drake

Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.

~ Robert M. Drake

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.

~ Richard Bach

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

~ Sophocles

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

~ Paulo Coelho

People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there

~ Zoë Marriott

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you, the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.

~ Dan Millman

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

~ Ben Carson

The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.

~ Sarah Dessen

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

~ Richard Dawkins

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

~ Haruki Murakami

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

~ C.s. Lewis

In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, It's better to burn out than to fade away. He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, he said. I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.

~ David Sheff

Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.

~ Sanaya Roman

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.

~ Wendelin Van Draanen