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You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do.
— Masashi Kishimoto
Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.
— Jonathan Tropper
To deny that there was this dark side of life would be like pretending that the cold of winter was somehow only a temporary illusion, a way station on the way to the higher "reality" of long, warm, pleasant summers. But summer, it turned out, was no more real than the snow that melted in wintertime.
— David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.
— Katherine Center, Everyone Is Beautiful
Love springs from the inside. It is the immortal surge of passion, excitement, energy, power, strength, prosperity, recognition, respect, desire, determination, enthusiasm, confidence, courage, and vitality, that nourishes, extends and protects. It possesses an external objective - life.
— Ogwo David Emenike
We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.
— Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.
— Emma Chase, Tamed
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, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
— Eric Roth
Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose.
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn't about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.""But what if he is your friend?" Achilles had asked him, feet kicked up on the wall of the rose-quartz cave. "Or your brother? Should you treat him the same as a stranger?""You ask a question that philosophers argue over," Chiron had said. He is worth more to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?"We had been silent. We were fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard.He is half of my soul, as the poets say. He will be dead soon, and his honor is all that will remain. It is his child, his dearest self. Should I reproach him for it? I have saved Briseis. I cannot save them all. I know, now, how I would answer Chiron. I would say: there is no answer. Whichever you choose, you are wrong.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.
— Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over.
— Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes
All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
— Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.
— Mitch Albom
In my end is my beginning.
— T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Leef hard en goed en schoon en wild. Kijk goed, voel beter. Wees niet bang. Kies voor wat u blij maakt, wat het ook moge zijn. Durf proberen wat te lastig lijkt. Leg de lat hoog genoeg. Koester en laat u koesteren. Geef anderen wat ze verdienen, en uzelf minstens ook. Blijf hopen, willen, dromen, wensen.
— Griet Op de Beeck, Vele hemels boven de zevende
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
— Isaac Asimov
The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.
— Virginia Woolf, Orlando
Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!
— Woody Allen
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
— Alain de Botton
She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
— Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth
Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.
— Sophie Kinsella, Twenties Girl
Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.
— Amit Ray
In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.
— Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government
— Spurious quote attributed to George Washington but never said by him .
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
— Eudora Welty
Associate with the noblest people you can find
—  read the best books
What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
— Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
When you start giving, instead of getting, you make a difference. You can always give a warm smile, a sincere hello, a positive vibe… your attention, your time, your love, and kindness to those around you.
— Roy T. Bennett
Тo me, the future doesn’t seem real. It’s just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don’t have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at eight hundred miles per hour.
— Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
When you're locked up in here for life, you learn to welcome the little freedoms.
— Alexander Gordon Smith, Lockdown
In still moments by the sea life seems large-drawn and simple. It is there we can see into ourselves.
— Rolf Edberg
I had a dream about you last night.. you were trying to give coordinates to an apple
— Nicole McKay, I Had a Dream About You
Be yourself
—  everyone else is already taken.
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Without music, life would be a mistake.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
— Marilyn Monroe
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
— Bil Keane
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
— Neil Gaiman, Coraline
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
— Thomas A. Edison
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
— Albert Einstein
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...
— Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
— George Eliot
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
— C.S. Lewis
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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.
— Shel Silverstein
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
— Helen Keller
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston S. Churchill
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.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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.
— John Lennon
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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.
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
— Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
A person's a person, no matter how small.
— Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Well-behaved women seldom make history.
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
— Audrey Hepburn
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.
— Herbert Bayard Swope
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
— Dalai Lama XIV
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Peace begins with a smile..
— Mother Teresa
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone....We leave you a tradition with a future.The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.Never throw out anybody.Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.
— Sam Levenson, In One Era & Out the Other
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.
— Nicholas Klein
Whatever you are, be a good one.
— Abraham Lincoln
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
— Thomas Szasz
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
— Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
— L.M. Montgomery
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.
— C. JoyBell C.
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.
— Emily Dickinson
Always do what you are afraid to do.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
— George Orwell, 1984
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
— Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
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.
— Alexandre Dumas
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.
— John Green, Paper Towns
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
— Lloyd Alexander
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
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.
— Haruki Murakami
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
— Oprah Winfrey
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
— Isaac Asimov, Foundation
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
— William Shakespeare, The Tempest
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.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
— Agatha Christie
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
— George Orwell, 1984
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
— Theodore Roosevelt
None but ourselves can free our minds.
— Bob Marley
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Only in the darkness can you see the stars.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
— Mark Twain
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
— Walt Disney Company
When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.
— Taylor Swift
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
— Leonardo da Vinci
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
— Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
— Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
— Cornelia Funke, Inkspell
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
— John F. Kennedy
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
— Francis of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.
— Jim Morrison
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
— A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
You never fail until you stop trying.
— Albert Einstein
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
— Louis L'Amour
You're off to Great Places!Today is your day!Your mountain is waiting,So... get on your way!
— Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
— Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha
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.
— C. JoyBell C.
HopeSmiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'...
— Alfred Tennyson
To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.
— William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.
— J.K. Rowling
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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.
— Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!
The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
— George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah
You is kind. You is smart. You is important.
— Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.
— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
— Jalaluddin Rumi
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
— Jalaluddin Rumi
It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
— Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Better to be strong than pretty and useless.
— Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.
— Chico Xavier
What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
— Voltaire
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That's the only lasting thing you can create.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.
— John A. Shedd
Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
— Alice Walker
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
— Stephen Hawking
You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
— Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.
— Bette Midler
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?
— Charles M. Schulz
The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!
— Edward J. Stieglitz
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
Try a little harder to be a little better.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
— Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.
— P.C. Cast, Betrayed
When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.
— Margaret Walker
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
— George Carlin
Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!
— Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
— Dalai Lama XIV
She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.
— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
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.
— C. JoyBell C.
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
— Adrienne Rich
Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.
— Sarah Dessen
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
— Mark Twain
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
— Zig Ziglar
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
— George Eliot
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
— Barack Obama
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
— John Muir
In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?
— Jack Kornfield, Buddha's Little Instruction Book
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
— Mark Twain
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.
— Abraham Lincoln
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
— Kurt Cobain
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tears are words that need to be written.
— Paulo Coelho
Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
— Molière
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
— Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
— Louis L'Amour, Matagorda/The First Fast Draw
Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.
— C. JoyBell C.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do
—  or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
— Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
— Anne Frank
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
— Anaïs Nin
Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
— George Washington Burnap, The Sphere and Duties of Woman: A Course of Lectures
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
— Patricia Cornwell
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. 
— Pablo Picasso, Pablo Picasso: Metamorphoses of the Human Form : Graphic Works, 1895-1972
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
— Leo Tolstoy
I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
— Marilyn Monroe
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
— Gautama Buddha
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
— Maya Angelou
If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
— Ray Bradbury
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
— John Anster, The First Part of Goethe's Faust
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller - Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century
. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.
— Rebecca Walker, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
— Napoléon Bonaparte
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
— Walt Whitman
The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.
— C. JoyBell C.
I am a part of all that I have met.
— Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson
If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
— Nora Roberts
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.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
If you want to be happy, be.
— Leo Tolstoy
Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts
—  it is a sword that kills.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.
— Tami Hoag, Dark Horse
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
— Henry David Thoreau
All thinking men are atheists.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
— Maya Angelou
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
— Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.
— Maya Angelou
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
— Galileo Galilei
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion
—  it is easy in solitude to live after our own
there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space.
— Charles Bukowski
We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.
— George Carlin
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.
— Robert Frost
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
— Walt Disney Company
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am not a teacher, but an awakener.
— Robert Frost
You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking.
— Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
— Maya Angelou
We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.
— Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.
— George Carlin
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
— Victor Hugo
Because paper has more patience than people. 
— Anne Frank
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:Wear sunscreen.If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.
— Mary Schmich
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.
— Bob  Ross
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
— Audrey Hepburn
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
— Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
— Albert Einstein
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
— Confucius
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you?
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.
— Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
— E.M. Forster
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
— Lao Tzu