Famous Quotes

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

~ Lance Armstrong

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

~ Rabindranath Tagore

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

~ Cornelia Funke

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

~ John F. Kennedy

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

~ Francis Of Assisi

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

~ Jim Morrison

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

~ A.a. Milne

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.

~ Louis L'amour

You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So... get on your way!

~ Dr. Seuss

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

~ Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.

~ C. Joybell C.

HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...

~ Alfred Tennyson

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

~ William Blake

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.

~ Dr. Seuss

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

~ George Bernard Shaw

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

~ Kathryn Stockett

Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

~ Christopher Paolini

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

~ Lilith Saintcrow

‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.

~ Chico Xavier

What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

~ J.k. Rowling

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

~ J.k. Rowling

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

~ John A. Shedd

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

~ Will Rogers

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

~ Stephen Hawking

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

~ Sarah Dessen

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

~ Bette Midler

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.

~ J.k. Rowling

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

~ Charles M. Schulz

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

~ Paulo Coelho

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

~ P.c. Cast

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

~ Margaret Walker

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

~ George Carlin