Famous Quotes

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

~ Virginia Woolf

You are old beyond your years Zoeybird. Believe in yourself and you will find a way. But remember darkness does not always equate to evil just like light does not always bring good.

~ P.c. Cast

You have a unique gift to offer this world. Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you and keep away from people who bring you down. When you treat yourself kindly and respect the uniqueness of those around you, you will be giving this world an amazing gift... YOU!

~ Steve Maraboli

Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.

~ C.s. Lewis

Most don't deserve your tears... and the ones that do will never make you cry.

~ T. Rafael Cimino

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

~ Neil Gaiman

Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Feel your emotions,Live true your passions,Keep still your mind.

~ Geoffrey M. Gluckman

If you hear how wonderful you are often enough, you begin to believe it, no matter how you try to resist it.

~ Ben Carson

the purpose of life is the life of purpose

~ Robin S. Sharma

The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Because the truth is, we should not all see everyone as the same! We are not the same! We are made of different colours and we have different cultures. We are all different! But the key to this door is to look at these differences, respect these differences, learn from and about these differences, and grow in and with these differences. We are all different. We are not the same. But that's beautiful. And that's okay.In the quest for unity and peace, we cannot blind ourselves and expect to be all the same. Because in this, we all have an underlying belief that everyone should be the same as us at some point. We are not on a journey to become the same or to be the same. But we are on a journey to see that in all of our differences, that is what makes us beautiful as a human race, and if we are ever to grow, we ought to learn and always learn some more.

~ C. Joybell C.

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger... To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit... Finally I write because I'm scared of writing, but I'm more scared of not writing.

~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strengthmay we dance in the face of our fears.

~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

~ Mother Teresa

The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him.

~ Miyamoto Musashi

Your opinion is not my reality.

~ Steve Maraboli

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

~ Terry Eagleton

impossible is not a word

~ Obert Skye

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

~ T.s. Eliot

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

~ Agatha Christie

If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.

~ Anne Frank

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

~ Philip Pullman

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

~ Marcus Aurelius

Vote for the man who promises least, he'll be the least disappointing.

~ Bernard M. Baruch

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

~ Alan Turing

Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.

~ Cheryl Lacey Donovan

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.

~ Veronica Roth

She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.

~ Robert M. Drake

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way. Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

~ Camille Paglia

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.

~ C.s. Lewis

So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.

~ Sabaa Tahir

The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I'll be smarter. I'll be stronger. I'll be ready.

~ Ally Carter

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

~ Will Smith

There isa time to liveand a time to diebut never to reject the moment.

~ Lao Tzu

Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.

~ Meister Eckhart

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

~ Isabelle Eberhardt

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

~ Neil Gaiman

I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past.

~ Robert T. Kiyosaki