Famous Quotes

Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.

~ Warren Ellis

The universe is big. It's vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes—very rarely—impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.

~ Steven Moffat

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

~ Sarah Dessen

We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies.

~ Emily Dickinson

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

~ Laini Taylor

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

~ Robert E. Lee

In the end, everything is a gag.

~ Charlie Chaplin

So what? You're another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?

~ Yana Toboso

I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.

~ Amy Harmon

We're called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps--and to leave the results up to God.

~ Alex Harris

Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

~ Kelly Cutrone

To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.

~ Garth Stein

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

~ Byron Katie

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.

~ Taylor Swift

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

~ Yoko Ono

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

~ Stephen King

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.

~ Lloyd Alexander

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

~ Max Lucado

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.

~ Elie Wiesel

I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all, neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble, I trust while I weep.

~ Charlotte Brontë

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

~ Jason Fried

How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

~ Trina Paulus

I do like the world quite a lot.

~ Shannon Hale

Onward and Upward! To Narnia and the North!

~ C.s. Lewis

Go and get your things,' he said. 'Dreams mean work.

~ Paulo Coelho

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

~ John Cage

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

But there's always a first time for everything

~ Melissa De La Cruz

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

~ Francesca Lia Block

No matter who we are, no matter what our circumstances, our feelings and emotions are universal. And music has always been a great way to make people aware of that connection. It can help you open up a part of yourself and express feelings you didn't know you were feeling. It's risky to let that happen. But it's a risk you have to take-because only then will you find you're not alone.

~ Josh Groban

In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are.

~ Steve Maraboli

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

~ Maya Angelou

You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

~ Socrates

God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.

~ Amit Ray

When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.

~ Diana Wynne Jones

I am an optimist... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.

~ Tom Hiddleston