Famous Quotes

There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things -he sighed- these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

~ Mitch Albom

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

~ Erasmus

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

~ Rick Riordan

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

~ Amit Ray

We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!

~ Jeaniene Frost

And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I feel infinite.

~ Stephen Chbosky

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.

~ Robert M. Drake

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)

~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Hearts can't be broken because they're made of marzipan.

~ Kerstin Gier

Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.

~ Robert M. Drake

That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

~ Jandy Nelson

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.

~ Criss Jami

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

~ Woodrow Wilson

If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

~ Mitch Albom

To read is to empower,To empower is to write,To write is to influence,To influence is to change,To change is to live.

~ Jane Evershed

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

~ Robert F. Kennedy

Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

~ J.d. Salinger

What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.

~ Cornelius Elmore Addison

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

~ Jean M. Auel

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

Again and again I will suffer, again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

It is when things are at worst you will get the best.

~ Santosh Kalwar

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.

~ Sheri Dew

The truth is I didn’t need therapy, I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.

~ Robert M. Drake

The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.

~ Nicholas Sparks

If you can't be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?

~ Sophie Kinsella

Sad stories make good books

~ Khaled Hosseini

What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.

~ Viktor E. Frankl

For the future, the motto is, No days unalert.

~ Robert Greene

I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.

~ R.j. Anderson

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..

~ Paul Theroux

That's chess! snapped Ron. You've got to make some sacrifices!

~ J.k. Rowling

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

~ Coco Chanel

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

~ Oscar Wilde

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery. It is far better to be free, to leave the forts and barricades of fear, to stand erect and face the future with a smile. It is far better to give yourself sometimes to negligence, to drift with wave and tide, with the blind force of the world, to think and dream, to forget the chains and limitations of the breathing life, to forget purpose and object, to lounge in the picture gallery of the brain, to feel once more the clasps and kisses of the past, to bring life's morning back, to see again the forms and faces of the dead, to paint fair pictures for the coming years, to forget all Gods, their promises and threats, to feel within your veins life's joyous stream and hear the martial music, the rhythmic beating of your fearless heart. And then to rouse yourself to do all useful things, to reach with thought and deed the ideal in your brain, to give your fancies wing, that they, like chemist bees, may find art's nectar in the weeds of common things, to look with trained and steady eyes for facts, to find the subtle threads that join the distant with the now, to increase knowledge, to take burdens from the weak, to develop the brain, to defend the right, to make a palace for the soul. This is real religion. This is real worship

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action....no matter what.  So you're afraid? Be afraid.  Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured...Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.

~ Susan Cain