Famous Quotes

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

~ Walt Whitman

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

~ C. Joybell C.

I am a part of all that I have met.

~ Alfred Tennyson

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.

~ Stephen Chbosky

We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.

~ Tami Hoag

All thinking men are atheists.

~ Ernest Hemingway

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

~ Maya Angelou

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

~ Gilles Deleuze

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

~ Maya Angelou

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after our own, but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space.

~ Charles Bukowski

We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.

~ George Carlin

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.

~ Robert Frost

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

~ Walt Disney Company

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

~ John Green

I am not a teacher, but an awakener.

~ Robert Frost

You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking.

~ Lucille Clifton

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

~ Maya Angelou

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.

~ Sarah Vowell

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

~ George Carlin

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

~ Victor Hugo

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

~ Lauren Oliver

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:Wear sunscreen.If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

~ Mary Schmich

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

~ L.m. Montgomery

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

~ Bob Ross

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

~ Erin Morgenstern

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

~ Albert Einstein

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

~ Confucius

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

~ E.m. Forster

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

~ Cecelia Ahern

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

~ J.m. Barrie