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Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars
— Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.
— Gautama Buddha
The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
— J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
— C.S. Lewis
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
— Albert Einstein
I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
— Taylor Swift
Life sucks, and then you die...
— Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down
— Charlie Chaplin
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
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.
— Helen Keller
He that can have patience can have what he will.
— Benjamin Franklin
Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.
— Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
— Kurt Cobain
We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
— Wayne W. Dyer
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.
— Tupac Shakur
Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry And June
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.
— Mirza Tahir Ahmad
A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned
— Benjamin Franklin
Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
— Aristotle
In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
Aim higher in case you fall short.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
— Thomas A. Edison
Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
— C.S. Lewis
Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
— G.K. Chesterton
People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it," I answered.And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."Of course," I answered.And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
— Walt Disney Company
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
— T.S. Eliot
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
— Anaïs Nin
There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
— Marilynne Robinson, Home
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day
—  wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
— E.E. Cummings
There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry And June
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dream as if you will live forever
—  Live as if you will die today.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
— Leo Buscaglia
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
— Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
— Dr. Seuss
Just be yourself, there is no one better.
— Taylor Swift
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly, and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love – for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you from misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
— Max Ehrmann, Desiderata - A Poem for a Way of Life
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
— Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
— Nisargadatta Maharaj
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
— John Cheever
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.
— David Nicholls, One Day
My heart is warm with the friends I make,And better friends I'll not be knowing,Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,No matter where it's going.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, The Selected Poetry
But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
— Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.
— Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
— Laurence Sterne
There is a way to be good again...
— Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.
— Joss Whedon
If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you'll never be able to dance.
— Iris Johansen, Countdown
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— John Wooden
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
— William Faulkner
I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic dose of something you never dared to admit you wanted-an emotional speedball, perhaps, of thunderous love and roiling excitement. Soon you start craving that intense attention, with a hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is witheld, you promptly turn sick, crazy, and depleted (not to mention resentful of the dealer who encouraged this addiction in the first place but now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore-- despite the fact that you know he has it hidden somewhere, goddamn it, because he used to give it to you for free). Next stage finds you skinny and shaking in a corner, certain only that you would sell your soul or rob your neighbors just to have 'that thing' even one more time. Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is,you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess,unrecognizable even to your own eyes. So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's final destination-- the complete and merciless devaluation of self." - pg 20-21
— Elizabeth Gilbert
You've got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone's hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people's eyes like they're the last you'll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there's no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake like it's the only one left in the world!
— C. JoyBell C.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
— Albert Einstein
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
— Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.
— Terry Pratchett
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— J.M. Barrie
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
— Mark Twain
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions--predigested books and ideas...marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short...and this, in turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means, therefore, the courage to be "different"...The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.
— Adrienne Rich
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
— Winston S. Churchill
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
— Nelson Mandela
What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.
— Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
— Carlos Castañeda
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
— André Gide
When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.
— Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
— E.E. Cummings
There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.
— Taylor Swift
I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
— Mae West
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
— Howard Thurman
Never dull your shine for somebody else.
— Tyra Banks
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
— Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice
Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose......Describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty - describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. - And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Without fear there cannot be courage.
— Christopher Paolini
Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.
— Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other
— Veronica Roth
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.
— Ray Bradbury
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
— Paulo Coelho
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
— Robert Frost
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.
— Joseph Campbell
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.
— Max Ehrmann, Desiderata - A Poem for a Way of Life
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
— Ronald Reagan
The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.
— Steven Moffat
Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
— John Wesley
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
— Ernst F. Schumacher
A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.
— Walt Disney Company, Cinderella
Fake it 'till you make it.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Those who do not weep, do not see.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
— Edgar Allan Poe
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
— Madonna
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
— Malcolm X
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
— Gautama Buddha
Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.
— Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions
But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
— Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë
If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.
— Taylor Swift
The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.
— Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?", Oct. 4, 1930)]
— Mahatma Gandhi
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
All The Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasLayin' In The Sun,Talkin' 'Bout The ThingsThey Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...But All Those Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasAll Ran Away And HidFrom One Little Did.
— Shel Silverstein
It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.
— Frank Warren
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
— Audrey Hepburn
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
— Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.
— Dalai Lama XIV
The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
— John F. Kennedy
Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.
— Jalaluddin Rumi, The Essential Rumi
Life before Death.Strength before Weakness.Journey before Destination.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.
— C. JoyBell C.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
— Leo Buscaglia
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.
— Charlie Chaplin
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
— Victor Hugo
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
— Roald Dahl
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
— Aesop
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. 
— Oprah Winfrey
If you dont have any shadows you're not in the light
— Lady Gaga
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
— Sam Levenson
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
— Winston S. Churchill
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
— Anne Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
— Martin Luther King Jr., I Have A Dream
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I sustain myself with the love of family.
— Maya Angelou
So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.
— Mildred D. Taylor, The Land
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
— Albert Einstein
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
— Seneca
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
— Miguel de Unamuno
All I can be is me- whoever that is. 
— Bob Dylan
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
— Michel de Montaigne
Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.
— Meg Cabot, All-American Girl
In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.
— Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic & Baby
But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I'll get through today.
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
No life is a waste," the Blue Man said. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.
— Mitch Albom
I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
— Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.
— Joss Whedon
You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
— Alice Sebold
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies
In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.
— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!
— C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
The dog is a gentleman
—  I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
— Oprah Winfrey
Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
— Ally Carter
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
— Muriel Rukeyser
Music is the literature of the heart
—  it commences where speech ends.
Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.
— Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
— Ovid
There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.
— Chris Colfer
Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.
— Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
— Anaïs Nin
Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.
— C. JoyBell C.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.
— Gloria Steinem
When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
— Confucius
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
— George Orwell, Animal Farm
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such
— Henry Miller
I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.
— J. Richard Lessor
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
— Walter Scott, Marmion
I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
You're never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.
— Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
— Gautama Buddha
Bitch (noun): A woman who won't bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else's opinion - be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it's just one person's opinion; therefore, it's of no real importance. She doesn't try to live up to anyone else's standards - only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently.
— Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
younot wanting mewasthe beginning of mewanting myselfthank you
— Nayyirah Waheed
You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.
— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself 
— Maya Angelou
He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.
— Ayn Rand
I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.
— Louis C.K.
The stupid neither forgive nor forget
—  the naive forgive and forget
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
— Albert Einstein
We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.
— Veronica Roth, Divergent
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
— Anaïs Nin
I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
— Tupac Shakur
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
— Robert Frost
When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.
— Lily Tomlin
People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.
— Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
— Bob Marley, Bob Marley - Legend
I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
— Deepak Chopra
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
— Oprah Winfrey
Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
— Bruce Lee
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
— Ayn Rand, Anthem
No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!
— C. JoyBell C.
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always
— Dante Alighieri
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
— Vincent van Gogh
Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala
Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail...
— Sophie Kinsella
See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say.
— Kahlil Gibran
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
— Bill Watterson
The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.
— Voltaire
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
— Francis of Assisi
When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.
— C. JoyBell C.
the time is always right to do the right thing
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Bermimpilah, karena Tuhan akan memeluk mimpi-mimpi itu.
— Andrea Hirata, Sang Pemimpi
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. . . . Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God's Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord. . . .
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Think, Believe, Dream, and Dare.
— Walt Disney Company
You become what you think about all day long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
— Anaïs Nin
I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
— Audrey Hepburn
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
— G.K. Chesterton
We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.
— George R.R. Martin
Things do not change
—  we change.
We are the music-makers,And we are the dreamers of dreams,Wandering by lone sea-breakers,And sitting by desolate streams.World-losers and world-forsakers,Upon whom the pale moon gleams;Yet we are the movers and shakers,Of the world forever, it seems.
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Poems of Arthur O'Shaughnessy
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.
— Muhammad Ali Jinnah
If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
— Ronald Reagan
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
— Theodore Roosevelt
We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
— Martin Luther
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
— Kurt Cobain
A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.
— Will Self
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet.
— Stephen King, The Stand
So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.
— Benjamin Franklin
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
— Fred Rogers
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934