Famous Quotes

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

~ Miguel De Unamuno

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.

~ Meg Cabot

In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.

~ Sophie Kinsella

But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.

~ Gayle Forman

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

~ Margaret Mitchell

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

~ Joss Whedon

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

~ Alice Sebold

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

~ Abraham Lincoln

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!

~ C.s. Lewis

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

~ Yann Martel

The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

~ Mark Twain

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

~ Ally Carter

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

~ Muriel Rukeyser

Music is the literature of the heart, it commences where speech ends.

~ Alphonse De Lamartine

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

~ Nicola Yoon

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

~ Ovid

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.

~ C. Joybell C.

Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

~ Anonymous

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.

~ Gloria Steinem

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

~ Confucius

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.

~ George Orwell

I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

~ J. Richard Lessor

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

~ Walter Scott

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

~ Jon Krakauer

You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.

~ Richard Bach

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

~ Gautama Buddha

Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of no real importance. She doesn't try to live up to anyone else's standards - only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently.

~ Sherry Argov

You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.

~ Neil Gaiman

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.

~ Louis C.k.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget, the naive forgive and forget, the wise forgive but do not forget.

~ Thomas Szasz

We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. He clears his throat. I continually struggle with kindness.

~ Veronica Roth

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

~ Tupac Shakur

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

~ Robert Frost

When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.

~ Lily Tomlin

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.

~ Joseph Campbell