"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
"“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
"Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself. Never do they hurt your feelings or make you feel like you are not good enough, but rather they build you up and show you the things about yourself that make you special and even beautiful. There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are. The things that seem insignificant to most people such as a note, song or walk become invaluable treasures kept safe in your heart to cherish forever. Memories of your childhood come back and are so clear and vivid it’s like being young again. Colours seem brighter and more brilliant. Laughter seems part of daily life where before it was infrequent or didn’t exist at all. A phone call or two during the day helps to get you through a long day’s work and always brings a smile to your face. In their presence, there’s no need for continuous conversation, but you find you’re quite content in just having them nearby. Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon. You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end. Life seems completely different, exciting and worthwhile. Your only hope and security is in knowing that they are a part of your life."
"As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once."
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."
"Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech."
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."
"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
"You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect—you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there."
"I'm in love with you, he said quietly. Augustus, I said. I am, he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you."
"I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough."
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd."
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
"Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it."
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."
"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master..."
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever."
"If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything."
"We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love."
"I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul."
"If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are."
"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being."
"I choose to love you in silence… For in silence I find no rejection, I choose to love you in loneliness… For in loneliness no one owns you but me, I choose to adore you from a distance… For distance will shield me from pain, I choose to kiss you in the wind… For the wind is gentler than my lips, I choose to hold you in my dreams… For in my dreams, you have no end."
"Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you."
"…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you. Some people might find that strange. But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them."
"There is an ocean of silence between us… and I am drowning in it."
"the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity."
"You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?"
"I love my parents' murderer; I suppose I could love anyone."
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life… You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like maybe we should just be friends or how very perceptive turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love. I hate love."
"You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets."
"I meant it when I said I didn’t believe in love at first sight. It takes time to really, truly fall for someone. Yet I believe in a moment. A moment when you glimpse the truth within someone, and they glimpse the truth within you. In that moment, you don’t belong to yourself any longer, not completely. Part of you belongs to him; part of him belongs to you. After that, you can’t take it back, no matter how much you want to, no matter how hard you try."
"If you cannot hold me in your arms, then hold my memory in high regard. And if I cannot be in your life, then at least let me live in your heart."
"I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand. And when the light has long since gone …. I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go."
"If you’re searching for a quote that puts your feelings into words – you won’t find it. You can learn every language and read every word ever written – but you’ll never find what’s in your heart. How can you? He has it."
"a flower knows, when its butterfly will return, and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand; but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon, when I don't know, if you will ever come back."
"When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief…. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance….. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day."
"i want to be in love with you the same way i am in love with the moon with the light shining out of its soul."
"That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget."
"Get up, Shahrzad al-Khayzuran. You kneel before no one. Least of all me."
"Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back."
"It’s painful, loving someone from afar. Watching them – from the outside. The once familiar elements of their life reduced to nothing more than occasional mentions in conversations and faces changing in photographs….. They exist to you now as nothing more than living proof that something can still hurt you … with no contact at all."
"I had someone once who made every day mean something. And now…. I am lost…. And nothing means anything anymore."
"Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway."
"She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind."
"I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you."
"There is no pretending, Jace said with absolute clarity. I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then."
"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together."
"Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore."
"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever"
"And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...? His voice tightened. And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching."
"I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want… a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved."
"I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have in the past been a victim of my own optimism."
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
"They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other."
"If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. Busy is another word for asshole. Asshole is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call."
"If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more: 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical."
"I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt."
"Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies."
"True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning."
"I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short to cry for anything."
"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to have understood my wishes? I had not waited even these ten days, could I have read your feelings, as I think you must have penetrated mine. I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice, indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be most fervent, most undeviating, in F. W. I must go, uncertain of my fate; but I shall return hither, or follow your party, as soon as possible. A word, a look, will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never."
"Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart."
"It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."
"There was a clatter as the basilisk fangs cascaded out of Hermione's arms. Running at Ron, she flung them around his neck and kissed him full on the mouth. Ron threw away the fangs and broomstick he was holding and responded with such enthusiasm that he lifted Hermione off her feet. Is this the moment? Harry asked weakly, and when nothing happened except that Ron and Hermione gripped each other still more firmly and swayed on the spot, he raised his voice. OI! There's a war going on here! Ron and Hermione broke apart, their arms still around each other. I know, mate, said Ron, who looked as though he had recently been hit on the back of the head with a Bludger, so it's now or never, isn't it? Never mind that, what about the Horcrux? Harry shouted. D'you think you could just --- just hold it in, until we've got the diadem? Yeah --- right --- sorry --- said Ron, and he and Hermione set about gathering up fangs, both pink in the face."
"Say 'provoking' again. Your mouth looks provocative when you do."
"I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem."
"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't."
"I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. Okay, he said. He took a breath. What would you do, if you could do anything? I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. This, I said. And then I kissed him."
"Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare? I say. I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralyzed with terror, he says. You should wake me, I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down. It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you, he says. I'm okay once I realize you're here."
"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together."
"Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike."
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."
"For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home."
"Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it."
"It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it's so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn't come back. You're left so alone that you can't explain. Damn, there's nothing like that, is there? I've been there and you have too. You're nodding your head."
"We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it's got to be the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.” I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way."
"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."
"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with."
"I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?"
"Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from."
"There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love."
"If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale."
"Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
"I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year."
"Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us."
"It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party."
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous."
"Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive."
"Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with."
"I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me."
"I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it."
"I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother."
"Every couple needs to argue now and then. Just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive. Long-term relationships, the ones that matter, are all about weathering the peaks and the valleys."
"For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first."
"Maybe its like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack in places. And I mean, yeah once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. Once it starts to rain inside the Osprey, it will never be remodeled. But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and when we finally fall apart. And its only that time that we see one another, because we see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs. When did we see each other face to face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade, but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out."
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
"Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are."
"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."
"Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect - and I don't live to be - but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!"
"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."
"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. After all this time? Always, said Snape."
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it; Who has left the world better than he found it, Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; Whose life was an inspiration; Whose memory a benediction."
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."
"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."
"But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie."
"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."
"Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely."
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."
"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."
"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."
"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."
"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."
"Don't Just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live."
"Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved."
"You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it."
"The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living."
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."
"Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes."
"Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention."
"Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart."
"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more."
"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories."
"We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don't even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It's time to put an end to this. It's time for us to let ourselves be loved."
"Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey."
"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."
"Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending."
"Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life."
"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself."
"We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking."
"Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are."
"The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you."
"Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others."
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."
"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."
"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."
"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."
"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."
"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."
"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."
"Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."
"Don't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live."
"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."
"Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure."
"Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved."
"You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it."
"More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate."
"Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people."
"If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present."
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."
"Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes."
"Keep Going Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end."
"Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention."
"Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance."
"Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart."
"Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are."
"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more."
"Believe in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles."
"Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think."
"No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future."
"Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey."
"Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy: Time, Happiness, Inner Peace, Integrity, Love, Character, Manners, Health, Respect, Morals, Trust, Patience, Class, Common sense, Dignity."
"Acts of Kindness: A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
"Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?"
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
"One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."
"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"You do not write your life with words... You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do."
"Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world."
"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."
"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."
"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."
"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
"Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly."
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
"The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times."
"If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is."
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.'"
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right."
"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."
"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
"You do not write your life with words... You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do."
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."
"The truth. Dumbledore sighed. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
"I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."
"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
"Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."
"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world... would do this, it would change the earth."
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
"The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward."
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."
"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go."
"This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about."
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
"We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another."
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."
"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."
"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."
"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."
"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."
"Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind."
"Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them."
"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."
"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."
"Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
"Don't Just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live."
"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."
"Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure."
"Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved."
"You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it."
"More smiling, less worrying, more compassion, less judgment, more blessed, less stressed, more love, less hate."
"Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people."
"If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present."
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."
"Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes."
"Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end."
"Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it."
"Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention."
"Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance."
"Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart."
"Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are."
"If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate."
"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."
"Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine."
"Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others."
"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."
"More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate."
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."
"Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes."
"Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end."
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
"Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart."
"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more."
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
"Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey."
"Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone."
"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."
"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."
"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."
"Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
"You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone."
"Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind."
"Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others."
"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."
"Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis."
"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."
"Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward."
"Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams: Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you."
"Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it."
"Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make."
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
"Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely."
"Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular."
"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."
"Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart."
"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more."
"Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey."
"Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone."
"Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny."
"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."
"Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days."
"Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."
"You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone."
"Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind."
"Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others."
"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."
"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."
"Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."
"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."
"Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams: Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you."
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."
"I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect."
"Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better."
"Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths."
"If you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing."
"Many times in life, we are held back from achieving our goals because we do not commit ourselves wholeheartedly. With an escape route in mind, we hold ourselves back from giving our all."
"Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost."
"When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him."
"If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for."
"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."
"There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief."
"Everything is within your power, and your power is within you."
"A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life."
"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction."
"To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions."
"Intelligence is more important than strength, that is why earth is ruled by men and not by animals."
"6 Ways To Give Your Mind A Break: 1. Stop stressing 2. Stop worrying 3. Give rest to the problems weighing you down 4. Lighten up 5. Forgive yourself 6. Forgive others"
"People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones."
"A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty."
"When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone."
"Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary."
"If we change our thoughts from 'it's too late' to, 'there's still hope', we might see some change in the world."
"Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books."
"When you are angry try your best to go to sleep, it keeps you away from speaking, writing and thinking while you are angry."
"This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family."
"Swim, crawl, stagger, walk, bend, stagger and gone – that’s life in simple terms, and all that matters here is how well we fought."
"Patterns don't lie; and at the centre of every pattern is you."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much;Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children;Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;Who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty or failed to express it;Who has left the world better than he found it,Whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had;Whose life was an inspiration;Whose memory a benediction."
"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world."
"Dare to Be: When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully. When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light. When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it. When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway. When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back. When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some. When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going. When times are tough, dare to be tougher. When love hurts you, dare to love again. When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal. When another is lost, dare to help them find the way. When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand. When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile. When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too. When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best. Dare to be the best you can – At all times, Dare to be!"
"So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains."
"Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny."
"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get"
"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
"Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."
"I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down."
"Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others."
"Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it"
"Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand"
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"No matter how old you are now... you are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want."
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
"Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them."
"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."
"How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey."
"There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty."
"The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow."
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."
"Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
"The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
"Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan.'"
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
"The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept."
"A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
"Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."
"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
"Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could."
"Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter? Yes, said Harry stiffly. Yes, sir. There's no need to call me sir Professor."
"Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?"
"Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint."
"Jesus! Luke exclaimed. Actually, it's just me, said Simon. Although I've been told the resemblance is startling."
"If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, Why god? Why me? and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
"To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you."
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
"We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rusha a deaf world."
"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."
"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.- I shall fear only God.- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
"I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a while to be able to recognize what God wants you to do. That's how it often is. God's voice is usually nothing more than a whisper, and you have to listen very carefully to hear it. But other times, in those rarest of moments, the answer is obvious and rings as loud as a church bell."
"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."
"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again - I dwell among the people."
"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."
"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
"All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust."
"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
"I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don't take them for granted. Friends are part of the glue that holds life and faith together. Powerful stuff."
"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it."
"If he’s not calling you, it’s because you are not on his mind. If he creates expectations for you, and then doesn’t follow through on little things, he will do same for big things. Be aware of this and realize that he’s okay with disappointing you. Don’t be with someone who doesn’t do what they say they’re going to do. If he’s choosing not to make a simple effort that would put you at ease and bring harmony to a recurring fight, then he doesn’t respect your feelings and needs. “Busy” is another word for “asshole.” “Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call."
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
"Keep Going: Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end."
"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."
"And still, after all this time, The sun never says to the earth, You owe Me. Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky."
"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
"I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
"I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you."
"Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift."
"Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right."
"Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith."
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
"None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith."
"I'm about to make a wild, extreme and severe relationship rule: the word busy is a load of crap and is most often used by assholes. The word busy is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact in every silo you uncover, all you're going to find is a man who didn't care enough to call. Remember men are never to busy to get what they want."
"No matter how old you are now... you are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want."
"Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don't have to have it all figured out to move forward."
"A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again."
"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
"I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?"
"Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car."
"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.."
"When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, Why god? Why me? and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off."
"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!"
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
"I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
"Knock, And He'll open the door; Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun; Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens; Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything."
"A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent."
"Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand."
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods."
"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning..."
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."
"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."
"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"
"No sight so sad as that of a naughty child, he began, especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death? They go to hell, was my ready and orthodox answer. And what is hell? Can you tell me that? A pit full of fire. And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever? No, sir. What must you do to avoid it? I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: I must keep in good health and not die."
"All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."
"He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter."
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
"More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate."
"For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers... Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth."
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
"Knock, And He'll open the door; Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun; Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens; Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything."
"Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet."
"1. Be Impeccable With Your Word. 2. Don't Take Anything Personally. 3. Don't Make Assumptions. 4. Always Do Your Best."
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
"I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong."
"Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself."
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!"
"The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for... There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."
"Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now."
"Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? ... A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love."
"Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace... For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
"It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth... It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters."
"Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends."
"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."
"What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God."
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. ... The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
"How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others."
"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down."
"I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats."
"It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. ... Without a central loyalty life is unfinished."
"One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. ... give plenty of hugs."
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride."
"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
"Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry."
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
"If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is."
"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle."
"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting."
"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
"Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire."
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness."
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
"I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. ... I hunger for your sleek laugh, ... I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body."
"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life."
"If you are a dreamer come in... For we have some flax golden tales to spin."
"Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate."
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
"She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet... Passion flows through her like a river of blood."
"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper."
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours."
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
"You have to write the book that wants to be written."
"If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write."
"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."
"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
"We live and breathe words. .... Reading your words, what you wrote, how you were lonely sometimes and afraid, but always brave..."
"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
"The most important things are the hardest to say. ... The secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear."
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion."
"There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story."
"Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."
"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."
"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."
"If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts."
"We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
"Death's got an Invisibility Cloak? Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking..."
"You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."
"It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one... It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is."
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke..."
"Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. For all things will kill you, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover."
"Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid."
"We are all alone, born alone, die alone... This is what makes your self-respect so important."
"Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect."
"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them?"
"That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone."
"When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him."
"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."
"What is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile? Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE."
"The Paradoxical Commandments: People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway."
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness."
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of."
"The Seven Social Sins: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principle."
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."
"There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons."
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
"Promise Yourself To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind."
"Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice."
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
"Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands."
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
"Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."
"It isn't what you have or who you are... that makes you happy. It is what you think about it."
"Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around."
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
"I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery... I thought, This is what it is to be happy."
"If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present."
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
"Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly."
"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."
"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge... And I believe that love is stronger than death."
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all."
"If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is."
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world... all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.'"
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
"But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars."
"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."
"If pain must come, may it come quickly... Then I will either wait for him or forget him."
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."
"Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'..."
"Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever."
"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope."
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming."
"Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart."
"I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."
"Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of."
"It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday."
"And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings."
"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."
"Hope can be a powerful force. ... when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen."
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart."
"Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy."
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."
"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. ... But it is never gone."
"Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy: Time, Happiness, Inner Peace, Integrity, Love, Character, Manners, Health, Respect, Morals, Trust, Patience, Class, Common sense, Dignity."
"Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this."
"Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear."
"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of."
"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
"Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go."
"They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite."
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
"They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!"
"I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen... I listen for returning feet And voices at the door."
"Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real."
"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."
"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking... Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting."
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.'"
"Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why."
"It's hard being left behind. It's hard to be the one who stays."
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