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The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie sticks with the under-four-foot set. I cursed parents for not preparing their children. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon, and if I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash. I turned out okay.
— Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake
it's good to have things done withwhen they don't workit's also good not to hateor even forgetthe person you've failed with.
— Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Just to say 'I believe' or 'I do not doubt' does not mean that you understand and see. To force oneself to see and accept a thing without understanding is political and not spiritual or intellectual.
— Gautama Buddha
She had always thought applying to college would be exciting. Living away from home, meeting so many new people, Learning new things, making a few poor life desicisons....
— Maureen Johnson, 13 Little Blue Envelopes
If life is a journey, It can take you anywhere you wanna go.
— Christina Aguilera
That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics.Fate. Luck. Chance.
— Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Fall
This is the legend of Cassius Clay, The most beautiful fighter in the world today.He talks a great deal, and brags indeed-y, of a muscular punch that's incredibly speed-y.The fistic world was dull and weary,But with a champ like Liston, things had to be dreary.Then someone with color and someone with dash, Brought fight fans are runnin' with Cash.This brash young boxer is something to see And the heavyweight championship is his des-tin-y.This kid fights great; he’s got speed and endurance,But if you sign to fight him, increase your insurance.This kid's got a left; this kid's got a right,If he hit you once, you're asleep for the night.And as you lie on the floor while the ref counts ten,You’ll pray that you won’t have to fight me again.For I am the man this poem’s about,The next champ of the world, there isn’t a doubt.This I predict and I know the score,I’ll be champ of the world in ’64.When I say three, they’ll go in the third,10 months agoSo don’t bet against me, I’m a man of my word.He is the greatest! Yes!I am the man this poem’s about,I’ll be champ of the world, there isn’t a doubt.Here I predict Mr. Liston’s dismemberment,I’ll hit him so hard; he’ll wonder where October and November went.When I say two, there’s never a third,Standin against me is completely absurd.When Cassius says a mouse can outrun a horse,Don’t ask how; put your money where your mouse is!I AM THE GREATEST!
— Muhammad Ali
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.
— William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
If you cannot see yourself fairly or accurately represented in the community where you live... and nothing there makes you feel awake or alive, I suggest you start doing some research on some other communities
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
Things can be cleaned and replaced. Great moments cannot afford to be lost.
— Cindy Woodsmall, The Bridge of Peace
If experience is the best teacher, there's nothing that comes close to the experience of life.
— Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
What I think is not necessarily, what I feel and what I feel is not necessarily, what I think.
— Santosh Kalwar
He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.
— Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven
I’m just saying it doesn’t always have to be spirits and magic. Sometimes hauntings are in your mind. It doesn’t make them less real.
— Kendare Blake, Girl of Nightmares
We ourselve are the authors of almost all our woes and griefs, of which we so unreasonably complain.
— Giacomo Casanova
You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?
— Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.
— Alex Garland
You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning.
— Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time
Big house, big car, big breast, big life, big this and big that; what is so big about living big? Live on KISS principle not BIG principle.
— Santosh Kalwar
(...)best of luck, avoid roasted cabbage, don't eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life!
— Christopher Paolini, Eldest
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.
— Nenia Campbell, Fearscape
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.
— James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.
— Wanda E. Brunstetter, Love Finds a Home: 3 Historical Romances Make Falling in Love Simple and Sweet
In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.
— Abraham Lincoln
The wishbone will never replace the backbone
— Will Henry
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
— Henrik Ibsen
To be calm and compassionate you need courage and conviction.
— Solange nicole
Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It
Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part.
— Jillian Michaels, Unlimited: How to Build an Exceptional Life
Not knowing is not a problem, not wondering is.
— Chase Weir
If you see the dragon fly,best you drink the flagon dry.”—Zarost
— Greg Hamerton, Second Sight
Each moment spent on this bright blue planet is precious so use it carefully.
— Santosh Kalwar
The thing about knowing you’re broken is that knowing is not enough to fix it.
— John  Goode, Taking Chances
The planet is here for our delight, but it is also here for us to change, to make it the best it can be. It's not just about sleeping and fucking and getting the right dress. Let's HOPE not.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
they say life goes on long after the thrill of living
— John Mellencamp
t may not be the life you imagined, but it’s your life. You came here for a reason. Is it time for you to go and begin again?
— Doug   Cooper, Outside In
I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.
— Anita Baker
Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart.The important things.
— Ana Castillo, Peel My Love Like an Onion
You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Cause the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the one who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all.
— Thomas Angelo
There are no do-overs in life.
— Conchita Hernandez Hicks
Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike.""What?""He'll understand.
— Sarah Dessen
being born a princess is all right, but behaving like one can be dangerous.
— Siddhartha Choudhary
The past is called the past for a reason. If you are constantly looking behind you, your eyes aren't on the road ahead. You don't drive the car that way, so why should you live your life that way?
— Rachel Van Dyken, The Bet
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
— Nicholas Butler
Well, I agree that 'trial and error' is a pretty pessimistic name for it. And maybe that's what it is most of the time. But I think the point is that it's not just try-error. Most of the time, it's try-error-try.
— David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Journey becomes difficult when we know the destination but not aware of the right path, may be the supreme power testing your moral and physical stamina.
— Durgesh Satpathy, Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory
Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.
— Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
You carry/All the ingredients/To turn your life into a nightmare--/Don't mix them!
What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control
— Denzel Washington, A Hand to Guide Me
Our bodies were printed as blank pages to be filled with the ink of our hearts
— Michael Biondi
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
— Thomas   Moore
To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.
— Karen Horney, Self-Analysis
We're not making mistakes. We're making experiences.
— Dan Bergstein
The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never be enough!
— Shannon L. Alder
Bringing to light what had been hidden in darkness should not overwhelm you, but EDUCATE you.
— Solange nicole
It's a thrill to fulfill your own childhood dreams, but as you get older, you may find that enabling the dreams of others is even more fun.
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
You don't have to be a doctor to know when a relationship is not healthy.
— Jodyne L. Speyer, Dump 'Em: How to Break Up with Anyone from Your Best Friend to Your Hairdresser
I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.
— Michelle Moran
Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.
— Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape
What will remain is neither you nor me but what we shared among each others.
— Santosh Kalwar
Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn't see a glimpse of the city lights while stranded in the forest, how would you ever know to walk in that direction? Sometimes, your vision can't be put into action, until you gather the learning experiences, along your journey first.
— Shannon L. Alder
Love isn't something to be given on whim, or shelved when it isn't convenient. Love is gift, a promise, and a belief in another person. If you treat it as such, it will fulfill you always
— Brian MacLearn
Some people are like that - always searching fro something better, never satisfied.,Makes you wonder if they ever get a good night's sleep. They must toss and turn, dreaming about a softer mattress or a plumper pillow.
— Farahad Zama, The Many Conditions of Love
She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.
— Jane Austen, Emma
They all walk their own paths, live their own lives. A journey without farewells, a beginning without end. It is a little lonely, but that's how it is
— Nobuhiro Watsuki, Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 28
Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.
— Peter Høeg
All I'm saying is that there is more to life than the main story. Check out the notes in the margins because maybe they're even more important.
— Isabelle Rowan
I don’t care if people say that I am staying hungry and foolish.
— Santosh Kalwar
People who say, “it is not my fault,” continuously fail. People who say, “I’ve done no wrong,” have not done enough right. People who say, “I am done!” are never done repeating the cycle. Even in the privacy of our own thoughts, we can’t sow lies and reap truth.
— Katina Ferguson
Our eyes tell us what we want to believe, but our heart tells us only the simple truth
— Karla M. Nashar, Bellamore: A Beautiful Love To Remember
Depression exist without you knowing it, even denying it. It is not an illusion. You don't even know you're in it. It takes awhile before you realize it. If you deny it, it means your still in there or else you won't talk about your misery and the dramas in your life.
— Ann Marie Aguilar
But he was able to understand one thing: making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that wil carry him into places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
I won't cry because it came to an end, but I will smile because it happened
— Karla M. Nashar, Bellamore: A Beautiful Love To Remember
But some climbs you have to make alone.
— Ellyn Bache, The Art of Saying Goodbye
You ever have the feeling you were in the wrong place? That if you could just get over the next hill, cross the next river, look down into the next valley, it'd all...fit. Be right.""All my life, more of less"“All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain’t no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I’ve learned … just to stick in the place I’m at. Just to be the man I am.
— Joe Abercrombie, Best Served Cold
If I were to live for tomorrow, I would have lived fullest for today.
— Santosh Kalwar
Listen to the whispers or soon you will be listening to the screams.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Fights begin and end with handshakes.
— Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father
— Denzel Washington, A Hand to Guide Me
Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own way.
— Mohammed Ali Bapir
Try to be "good", you'll be judged. Try to be yourself, you'll be criticized. Therefore, choose the second option. Evil uses the "nice good people" as puppets. It appears dressed as a poor guy, telling them that he needs help...When these people realize they have been used, it is already too late.
— Paulo Coelho
Patrick: Is fear rith maith nά drochseasamh.Jessica:And that means what?Patrick: A good run is better than a bad stand.Jessica: Oh. And that means what?Patrick: It means, Jessica, that life is about choices. Sometimes you fight, sometimes you flee, but you never surrender.
— Michele Bardsley, I'm the Vampire, That's Why
The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.
— Liza M. Wiemer
The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, and I were showered with gifts at home and at Dads apartment. I thought that was great. I was all in favor of my love being paid for with presents. This year all I got was a diary and a secondhand watch. Okay, I know this is corny, but this really is what Christmas is all about.
— Susan Beth Pfeffer, Life As We Knew It
Sweet talk's like salt. You can add some later, if need be, but if you pour out too much, you can't sift it out again.
— Marcia Gruver, Raider's Heart
We know how it ends practically before it starts. That´s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack".
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.
— Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes of reality, so that they may become, yes, untruth if you like - but more true than the literal truth.
— Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
There is nothing like a crisis to define who you are.
— Dexter Morgan
The soul that acquires the virtue of forgiveness won't find any more trouble. No matter what happens, he will know how to run his life ...
— Chico Xavier
They say faith is taking the first step when you can’t see the whole staircase. Actually, wisdom is seeing the elevator behind it that would have taken you to the top floor.
— Shannon L. Alder
Things are always given to us when we need them... You just have to decide if you're strong enough, brave enough, to seize it and make ityours. (Acheron)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Night Embrace
When life gives you lemons, forget the lemonade. Make a lemon chicken and a rich lemon cheesecake. Blame life for the extra pounds.
— Susie Smith
You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.
— Ellyn Bache, The Art of Saying Goodbye
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home.
— Amaleka McCall, Hard Candy
1. Do what you say you're gonna do 2. Show up! 3. Give genuine praise whenever you can 4. Never say sorry when you don't mean it 5. Never use sarcasm in email (and use the corny ass emoticons)
— Matthew Lasar
In other words, it was a struggle with himself. And the product of that struggle: anger, bitterness, resentment, envy or transformation, aspiration, hope, decency..the product of that struggle is the quality of your life and the nature of your soul.
— Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head
Think about it. Every time you fail at a task you've actually learned something new. The question is "what?
— Iimani David
LOOK AROUND. GAME DEAD, RIVERS BLACK, LAND CHOKED WITH WEED. SKIES BLEEDING, RED AS BLOOD. FOR WHAT?YOUR KIND ARE BLIND. YOU SEE ONLY THE NOW. NEVER THE WILL BE.BUT SOON YOU WILL. WHEN ALL IS GONE, WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY MONKEY-CHILDREN THAT YOU MURDER FOR A SCRAP OF LAND, A DROP OF CLEAN WATER, THEN YOU WILL SEE.
— Jay Kristoff, Stormdancer
We get so caught up in the life we are leading and forget that we are capable of living.Caring for Eleanor by Sonia Rumzi
— Sonia Rumzi
At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone.
— Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit and Three Other Plays
Another summer day has come and gone away in Paris and Rome, but I wanna go home..." Home-Alan Chang; Amy Foster-Gillies; Michael Buble
— Karla M. Nashar, Bellamore: A Beautiful Love To Remember
When the chips are down, you are giventhe chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that’s how you roll.
— Jessica Lave
Here's one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning. It's like that old riddle about a tree falling in a forest, and whether it makes a sound if there's no one around to hear it. You keep drawing a line farther and farther away, crossing it every time. That's how people end up stepping off the edge of the earth.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it
— Anamika Mishra, Too Hard To Handle
You are what you settle for. You are only as much as you settle for
— Janis Joplin
The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked memory, an etched countenance, a whisper in the dark, a golden glow these and much more are the woven fabric of the time I have lived.
— Howard Thurman
This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely.
— Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
When we have faith and discipline everything becomes easier. Patience is the mother of all virtues. With anxiety all our lives become worse.
— Chico Xavier
Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Disagreement, vehement disagreement, is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Evil does not question itself, only hope questions itself. Even the incorruptible are corruptible if they cannot accept the possibility of being mistaken. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient regime is toppled.
— Craig Ferguson, Between the Bridge and the River
When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart...
— Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
There are so many people put there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me.
— Layne Beachley
But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added. And all anyone can do . . . is choose.
— Kelseyleigh Reber, If I Fall
We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.
— Chico Xavier
Tears do not replace sweat, at least it never did in me... When I just cry, I'm in the same situation.
— Chico Xavier
Sometimes distance was easier than acting, or explaining.
— Laura Kaye, Hearts in Darkness
So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.
— Sheldon B. Kopp, If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients
I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself.
— Kristine Gasbarre
You just can't go back and expect your mind to be blown by the same thing every time. Life doesn't work that way.
— Holly Nicole Hoxter, The Snowball Effect
… "That at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what´s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That´s the world´s greatest lie." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
We need no language to laugh
— Janaki Sooriyarachchi, චන්දු තමී
When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things
— Denzel Washington, A Hand to Guide Me
We appreciate most that which we have lived without.
— Brian Rathbone, The Dawning of Power
All life's training is just exactly what is needed for the true Life-work, still out of view but far away from none of us. Don't grudge me the learning of a new lesson.
— Amy Carmichael
In your life, always be like a driver who runs the car not just a car.
— Santosh Kalwar
Was it always to be like this? she wondered. A moment of joy followed by a new sorrow?
— Soheir Khashoggi, Nadia's Song
There is such dissociation between what the eyes see and what the mind envisions. The final thought is just a matter of interpretation, coloured by our experiences.
— Anirban Bose, Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls
Sometimes it’s the complication, which just lies in our minds
— Anamika Mishra, Too Hard To Handle
As the manager sits before a performance, as the critics wait like hungry dogs to rip apart the performance, they all become entwined in the theatrics of it all.
— Isabella Kruger, Afterlife
A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
— Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
In the measurement world, you set a goal and strive for it. In the universe of possibility, you set the context and let life unfold.
— Benjamin Zander, The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.
— Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
Inside me there was everything I had believed was outside. There was, in particular, the sun, light, and all colors. There were even the shapes of objects and the distance between objects. Everything was there and movement as well… Light is an element that we carry inside us and which can grow there with as much abundance, variety, and intensity as it can outside of us…I could light myself…that is, I could create a light inside of me so alive, so large, and so near that my eyes, my physical eyes, or what remained of them, vibrated, almost to the point of hurting… God is there under a form that has the good luck to be neither religious, not intellectual, nor sentimental, but quite simply alive.
— Jacques Lusseyran, And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Revolution
Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Judge not lest ye be judged yourself.
— Metallica
Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
— Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238
— Leslie Bratspis
An attentive reader will always learn more, and more quickly, from good authors than from life.
— Hervé Le Tellier, Enough About Love
We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was
— Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation
Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again
— Og Mandino
Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.
— Joe L. Wheeler
She didn’t need hope anymore because she knew the things you wanted weren’t necessarily the things that you needed. She knew that the things that were meant to be just happened. You couldn’t control them like she once thought.
— Holly Hood
People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.
— Thomas Rogal II
Your spirit lives on in your work. YOU decide what manner of work that will be.
— Iimani David, The Bastard
Finally (Evangeline) whispered, "I wish that I had been more prepared.""We prepare all of our lives for such moments," Dr. Raphael said, crossing his arms and looking at me with a critical gaze. "When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.
— Danielle Trussoni, Angelology
somehow people forget that there is God....what more to us we're just individuals,,to forget is part of imperfections..
— Orosa Nakpil Malate
I’m speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There’s powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.
— Scott Lynch, Tales of the Far West
If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.
— Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
To all those who care, You can't forever. Time steals the years,And your reflection in the mirror.But I can still see the story in your eyes, And your timeless passion that’s never died.While your skin became tired,Your heart became strong,The present became the past,And your memories like a song.And though the moment at hand is all that we have, You’ve taught me to live it like it is our last.Since two words don't say ‘thank you’ the way they are meant to,I'll try all my life to be something like you.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
Every little bit of peace I bring someone is worth the peace I never had.
— Chico Xavier
When each one of us become an active and living book of lessons for those who see our examples, the boundaries of religious interpretation will give way to the new era of brotherhood and peace we're waiting for.
— Chico Xavier
I now see my life, not as a slow shaping of achievment to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery of a purpose which I did not know.
— Joanna Field
I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front.
— Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe
Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
— Mason Cooley
I'm not irreplaceable ... I'm nothing but grass growing on the ground; when the grass dies, another one replaces it ...
— Chico Xavier
A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.
— Stephan A. Hoeller
In life, we go through unexpected challenges that arises in our journey in succeeding, do not let any negativity taint your life with any misleading directions. Let the rejoice of your journey be with you all times, with the power of your soul and heart can combat any obstacle with time and gradual patience
— Lisa   Marie
When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...
— Sanhita Baruah
How long had it had been since she'd thought back on the evenings around the fire, number games at the kitchen table, or listening to her father sing? Too long. Yes, there had been bad times. And she had tallied them like figures in a column, not remembering to factor in the good. She had doctored the books.
— Julie Klassen, The Silent Governess
One man gathers what another man spills
— Robert Hunter, A Box of Rain: Lyrics, 1965-1993
A heart assured of its purpose will have the honor to admit when it is wrong, the courage to examine the reason for its faith and the strength to recover from the pain of any wrong it has done. And it will possess the greatest power known to both God and man; the power to forgive “AND” most certainly forget. A heart such as this shall always have the voice to answer life.
— Tonny K. Brown
If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The man who waits for some seventh wave to toss him on dry land will find that the seventh wave is a long time a-coming. You can commit no greater folly than to sit by the road side until someone comes along and invites you to ride with him to wealth or influence
— John B. Gough
Given a choice between goose egg and heartache, I would choose heartache.
— Santosh Kalwar
We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth, love, beauty, and adoration of nature.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I’ve watched you fight. It’s not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they’d be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list.
— Karen Salmansohn
You can't worry about the future so much that you miss out on the present.
— Molly Harper, Nice Girls Don't Live Forever
Respecting requests, rules and privacy is a universal law. You break that basic etiquette 101, you're seriously flawed.
— Hlovate, Contengan Jalanan
You need to be buried deep in the dirt before you can find your bloom.
— Roz Inga
Those who are made can be unmade.
— Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies
Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul.
— Kristin Cast
Live each day as if it were your last, for one day, you're sure to be right.
— Kenneth G. Ross
I guess god simply wants me to meet many wrong people before I meet the right one.
— Karla M. Nashar, Bellamore: A Beautiful Love To Remember
Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction.
— Kellie Elmore
Nothing - not prestige, power or pride - is worth sacrificing the things that you truly want, the things that you truly love. "Don't be afraid to take time and smell the roses. Don't hesitate in seeking out those things you hold dear. Seeking them out and holding on to them. And don't ever cease standing up for what you believe in, and fighting for those things that you want. Life is too short. Do what makes you happy, regardless of how others might feel.
— Brenda Jackson, Taking Care of Business
You have to live your life and not count on things being there tomorrow or the next day.
— Tere Michaels, Love & Loyalty
Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Even in the fiercest battles the Butterflies and Bee's still kiss the flowers.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
If nothing changes then nothing changes.
— C.P. Sennett
There's a fine line between deserving and just desserts.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Remember tomorrow has it own plans.so if you plan for tomorrow dont think tomorrow will favor you.
— Sylvester M. Aguzey
You don't learn anything just by reading books.You learn only by receiving blows.
— Swami Prajnanpad
Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.
— Michael Poeltl
O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day.
— Santosh Kalwar
If all the women over the world have been permitted to be married to only one man, except one woman. He'd love to marry that woman. That is the imprint of man
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.
— Sally Koslow
There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig
— Denzel Washington, A Hand to Guide Me
Every day, sincerely and without phoniness, Lou demonstrated by his actions how very vital it is - more than anything else - to understand and appreciate the people who work with you...Do your job well, but always remember that the people you work with are your most valuable asset. Embrace them. Honor them. Respect them" (206) - "Prescriptions for Success" by John Schuerholz
— Denzel Washington, A Hand to Guide Me
Tendencies. Yougottendencies. Soevenifyoudideverythingoveragain, yourwholelife, yougottendenciestodojustwhatyoudid, alloveragain. -The Sheep Man.
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Life lessons cannot be applied topically.
— Linda  Robinson
If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment.
— Chico Xavier
Life on the run was filled with dreams, some at night during sleep, real dreams, and some when the mind was awake but drifting. Most were terrifying, the nightmares of the shadows growing bolder and larger. Others were pleasant wishes of a rosy future, free of the past. These were rare, Patrick had learned. Life on the run was life in the past. There was no closure
— John Grisham, The Partner
Remember never to text and drive, it's bad grammar, even if you have a deadline. You might cross the line and dead may be your destination. Think about it!!
— Neil Leckman
The worker faithful to the well has neither the intention, or time, to violate the name and the service of others.
— Chico Xavier
Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment.
— Marcel Proust
It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth.
— Kathleen Basford
Writing like this is a little like milking a cow: the milk is so rich and delicious, and the cow is so glad you did it.
— Anne Lamott
If a man fights with truth, in time, he will be victorious. If he fights with lies, after he is exposed; in time, he will be left alone.
— Tonny K. Brown
Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest.
— Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life..."It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.
— Susan Vreeland
There are moments on stage when everything comes together. Then the kid in the front row coughs.
— Connie Brockway, The Bridal Season
It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be.
— Marilyn Fullen-Collins
The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in in the next future. When you stay dormant, your life is at risk; when you dare to take a step, you take a step to take a risk. We have a choice. Yes! a choice to choose to dare to get to our real reasons on earth or to choose to live in mediocrity and conformity, but, we ought to note that, it is riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at risk.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)
— Diana Palmer, A Man Of Means
People say, that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But they are wrong. What doesn't kill you, doesn't kill you.
— Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow
Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.
— Larry Winget
One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home ... With this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Life has a meaning but do not set out to find out. Just live it out.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
I wake up, I feel the inescapable oppression of the sunlight pouring through my bedroom window, and I am struck by the fact that I am alone. And that everyone is alone. And that everything I understood seven hours ago has already changed, and that I have to learn everything again.
— Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
... one can't live without falling now and again.
— Elizabeth Hoyt, Dearest Rogue
I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Keep Patience, it is happening for you, somewhere.
— Lovely Goyal, I Love the Way You Love Me
Remember:there are no mistakes only lessons love yourselftrust your choises and everything is POSSIBLE
— stardevonno
If you spend all your time thinking about how someone is going to one-up you, you can't put your best foot forward.
— Miranda Kenneally, Coming Up for Air
Waiting. Like it or not, it's a skill all spies have to master eventually.
— Ally Carter, Out of Sight, Out of Time
You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.
— Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
If I had a choice, I wouldn’t be here… I wouldn’t be anywhere.
— Faraaz Kazi
Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
— Sarah Dessen
I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if you go away, I will follow you--until you tell me to go away. Then I'll leave. But I have to love you for the rest of my life..
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.
— Nina Guilbeau
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.
— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack
It's a hard life if you don't weaken.
— Stephen King
A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness.
— Lisa Kogan
Each of our lives’ is a separate and precious journey. No matter how happy, sad, painful, tragic or confusing it may by, it is unique and beautiful. No matter if we hurt others or if we ourselves were hurt, it happened and it is part of our story. If we think we can have complete control over this journey, our journey will wake us up… usually with a very unpleasant surprise.More than genetics, money or education, it is our journey who defines who we are. It defines what kind of person you are. Not the experiences you encountered nor the happy or traumatic events you may have endured. But rather how we dealt with those events and how we continue to deal with those events; when we evaluate ourselves and how we treat others. Your journey is part of your story. But it is not the complete story of who and how you are. You are a soul, a spirit, who has traveled through this life and along the way; you learned and gathered bits and pieces from here and there. And you, yourself, have woven together a soul, a spirit. And that is who you are today. You define… you.Oh, and just in case you thought your journey, your story was over… surprise, its not. So keep weaving. You are not finished yet. It is never to late to define who you are.
— José N. Harris
Just the sight of one another, just the sight of our smiles was enough to fill our hearts with the joy of seeing each other again.
— Sawada Tsunayoshi
What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. You can grow from it. You can be made stronger. You can use that strength to change your life, to change your future.
— C.A. Woolf
Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.
— Ian Desabrais
Your life is your choice, so make it worthwhile
— Wennie Lin
I didn't know the answers, but I could feel that the things that gave life meaning came from a place within and from the nurturing of values like tolerance, charity, and community.
— Dick Van Dyke, My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
I have learned that when you make big decisions, life says, 'Fuck you. This is what you actually have in store.
— Chris Pine
You Don't need anyone to live a full life, You just need to find yourself!
— J.Ghorbani
No longer do I sing, dance or draw pictures; but God has granted me the gift to do them all in my stories.
— J'aiti
I have a shocking memory - I remember everything.
— Melinda Chapman
It's curling ribbon, but you don't have to curl it. You don't have to do everything the ribbon tells you to do. Don't live your life like that.
— Dan Bergstein
‎"Life's book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain atschool?
— Charles Hanson Towne
He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.
— Paul Christopher, The Lucifer Gospel
People have been on earth in our present form for only about 100,000 years, and in so many ways we’re still ironing out our kinks. These turtles we’ve been traveling with, they outrank us in longevity, having earned three more zeros than we. They’ve got one hundred million years of success on their resume, and they’ve learned something about how to survive in the world. And this, I think, is part of it: they have settled upon peaceful career paths, with a stable rhythm. If humans could survive another one hundred million years, I expect we would no longer find ourselves riding bulls. It’s not so much that I think animals have rights; it’s more that I believe humans have hearts and minds- though I’ve yet to see consistent, convincing proof of either. Turtles may seem to lack sense, but they don’t do senseless things. They’re not terribly energetic, yet they do not waste energy… turtles cannot consider what might happen yet nothing turtles do threatens anyone’s future. Turtles don’t think about the next generation, but they risk and provide all they can to ensure that there will be one. Meanwhile, we profess to love our own offspring above all else, yet above all else it is they from whom we daily steal. We cannot learn to be more like turtles, but from turtles we could learn to be more human. That is the wisdom carried within one hundred million years of survival. What turtles could learn from us, I can’t quite imagine.
— Carl Safina, Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth's Last Dinosaur