c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.
— Leo Tolstoy
There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.
— Charles Dickens
You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.
— Jodi Picoult, The Pact
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
— Pablo Picasso
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. And of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered.
— Aldous Huxley, Island
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
— Aristotle
It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.
— Karen Marie Moning, Faefever
To be in your children's memories tomorrow,You have to be in their lives today.
— Barbara Johnson
If I must fall, may it be from a high place.
— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive--I'll find love again.
— Paulo Coelho, The Zahir
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?
— Salvador Dalí
Life is wasted on the living.
— Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
— Merce Cunningham
It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick
— Jeanne Birdsall, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,Or what's a heaven for?
— Robert Browning, Men and Women and Other Poems
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
— John Green
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
— Daisaku Ikeda
The best way to measure how much you've grown isn't by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average-- though those things are important, to be sure. It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.
— R.J. Palacio, Wonder
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
— Emma Goldman
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
— Plato
I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
— Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.Read it over.Again.Let those words resonate in your mind.
— Nayyirah Waheed
I hate you."I love you."You're a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have."I'm trying not to be.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. (...) You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you.
— Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
— Charles de Lint
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
— Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment. 
— Og Mandino
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.
— Neale Donald Walsch
Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
— Ellen DeGeneres, The Funny Thing Is...
My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
— Martin Luther
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!
— John Waters, Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters
Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.
— Wayne W. Dyer
Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.
— Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful  Sorrows of Ava Lavender
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
— Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. “What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter’s grip, though his hands chafe. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.
— Veronica Roth
Your daughter is ugly.She knows loss intimately,carries whole cities in her belly.As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her.She was splintered wood and sea water.They said she reminded them of the war.On her fifteenth birthday you taught herhow to tie her hair like rope and smoke it over burning frankincense.You made her gargle rosewaterand while she coughed, saidmacaanto girls like you shouldn’t smellof lonely or empty.You are her mother.Why did you not warn her,hold her like a rotting boatand tell her that men will not love herif she is covered in continents,if her teeth are small colonies,if her stomach is an islandif her thighs are borders?What man wants to lay down and watch the world burn in his bedroom? Your daughter’s face is a small riot,her hands are a civil war,a refugee camp behind each ear,a body littered with ugly thingsbut God, doesn’t she wearthe world well.
— Warsan Shire
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combinationthey produce more hues than can ever been seen.There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations ofthem yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.
— Sun Tzu, The Art of War
No DifferenceSmall as a peanut,Big as a giant,We're all the same sizeWhen we turn off the light.Rich as a sultan,Poor as a mite,We're all worth the sameWhen we turn off the light.Red, black or orange,Yellow or white, We all look the sameWhen we turn off the light.So maybe the way, To make everything rightIs for god to just reach outAnd turn off the light!
— Shel Silverstein
Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams
— R.J. Palacio, Wonder
Life begins on the other side of despair.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
— Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
Are you on our side...and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?
— Gerard Way
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
— China Miéville, The Scar
The further you go, the more you have to be proud of. At the same time, in order to come a long way, you have to be behind to begin with. IN the end, though maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
— Fernando Pessoa
If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
— J.K. Rowling
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?
— Ian Wallace
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
— Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
— John C. Maxwell
The second thing you have to do to be a writer is to keep on writing. Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them. I meet far too many people who are going to be writers 'someday.' When they are out of high school, when they've finished college, after the wedding, when the kids are older, after I retire . . . That is such a trap You will never have any more free time than you do right now. So, whether you are 12 or 70, you should sit down today and start being a writer if that is what you want to do. You might have to write on a notebook while your kids are playing on the swings or write in your car on your coffee break. That's okay. I think we've all 'been there, done that.' It all starts with the writing. 
— Robin Hobb
I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Never let a problem to be solved, become more important than a person to be loved.
— Thomas S. Monson
Collective madness is called sanity ..
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.
— Taylor Swift
I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.
— Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
— Cesare Pavese
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
— Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
— Jeanne d'Arc
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.
— Thomas Merton
Do not dare not to dare.
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
— Bruce Lee
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
— Joseph Conrad
With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.
— Dr. Seuss
The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.
— Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.
— Stephen Hawking
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom.
— Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Normalness leads to sadness.
— Phil Lester
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
— George Bernard Shaw
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today
— Francis of Assisi
In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
— C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up.As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean.He came closer still and called out "Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?"The young man paused, looked up, and replied "Throwing starfish into the ocean.""I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?" asked the somewhat startled wise man.To this, the young man replied, "The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die."Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, "But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!"At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, "It made a difference for that one.
— Loren Eiseley
You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
— Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits
There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.
— Philip Pullman
life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.
— Anaïs Nin
A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return
— Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita
Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
— Michael Jordan
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.
— Stephen King
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
— Lucille Ball
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.
— Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
— G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man
She made broken look beautifuland strong look invincible.She walked with the Universeon her shoulders and made itlook like a pair of wings.
— Ariana Dancu
I am the captain of my soul.
— Nelson Mandela
For Equilibrium, a Blessing:Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore,May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul.As the wind loves to call things to dance,May your gravity by lightened by grace.Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth,May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect.As water takes whatever shape it is in,So free may you be about who you become.As silence smiles on the other side of what's said,May your sense of irony bring perspective.As time remains free of all that it frames,May your mind stay clear of all it names.May your prayer of listening deepen enoughto hear in the depths the laughter of god.
— John O'Donohue, To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
— Andy Warhol
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
— Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
— Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion
Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. 
— Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.
— Carlos Castañeda
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
— Anatole France
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?
— Bernard M. Baruch
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
— Benjamin Franklin
Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.
— Stephen King, Different Seasons
If you can dream it, you can do it.
— Walt Disney Company
A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
— Henrik Ibsen
I'm starting with the man in the mirror,I'm asking him to change his ways;And no message could have been any clearer,If you wanna make the world a better place,Take a look at yourself, and then make a change!
— Michael  Jackson
I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
— Dolly Parton
You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.
— Chris Colfer, Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
— Flannery O'Connor
Words save our lives, sometimes.
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Happiness cannot be pursued
—  it must ensue.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
— Albert Einstein
I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed,’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
LAW 25Re-Create YourselfDo not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.
— Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
— Otto Rank
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
— John Keats
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probablybecome as ordinary as they expect you to be.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.
— William Arthur Ward
Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. We all know individuals who did not fulfill the promise they showed in childhood. Many of them became haunted by the image of what they might have become. Instead of blaming fate, I think we should accept ourselves as we are and try to fulfill whatever dreams are within our capability.Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make a difference, whether it is to probe the secrets of Nature, to clean up the environment and work for peace and social justice, or to nurture the inquisitive, vibrant spirit of the young by being a mentor and a guide.
— Michio Kaku
Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.
— Ansel Adams
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
— James Gordon
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
— Joseph Campbell
Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.
— Paula White
Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. And when we want to change our life, we dive into spiritual practice and expect quick results, only to lose focus after the honeymoon has worn off. We return to our state of bewilderment. We're left feeling helpless and discouraged. It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our minds?
— Sakyong Mipham
Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight,At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more,When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death,And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again.
— C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have togive up all the other important things.
— Paulo Coelho, Brida
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
— Zig Ziglar
It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.
— Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer
Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.
— Napoleon Hill
I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.
— Barney Stinson
Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well.
— Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
— Aristotle
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.
— Dorothy Parker, You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.
— Abraham Lincoln
To those who will see, the world waits.
— Libba Bray
In the end, just three things matter:How well we have livedHow well we have lovedHow well we have learned to let go
— Jack Kornfield
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
— Richard Dawkins
Everything stinks till it’s finished.
— Dr. Seuss
I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.
— Shannon Hale, Princess Academy
You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
— Michael Jordan
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.
— Randy Pausch
Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Closing The CycleOne always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters - whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents' house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden?You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill.None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot for ever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back.Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. That is why it is so important (however painful it may be!) to destroy souvenirs, move, give lots of things away to orphanages, sell or donate the books you have at home. Everything in this visible world is a manifestation of the invisible world, of what is going on in our hearts - and getting rid of certain memories also means making some room for other memories to take their place.Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the "ideal moment." Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back. Remember that there was a time when you could live without that thing or that person - nothing is irreplaceable, a habit is not a need. This may sound so obvious, it may even be difficult, but it is very important.Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are.
— Paulo Coelho
HOW do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, soWHYpush to attain an ideal state of being that no two random people will agree isWHERE you want to be? Faultless. Finished. Incomparable. People can never be these, and anyway,WHENdid creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the personWHOlives inside your skin? The outside belongs to others. Only you should decide for you -WHATis perfect.
— Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
— Anthony Robbins
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
— Benjamin Disraeli
You could do a lot worse.
— Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. 
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.
— Joseph Smith Jr.
When I find myself in times of trouble, mother Mary comes to me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be.And in my hour of darkness she is standing right in front of me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be.Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be.Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.And when the broken hearted people living in the world agree,there will be an answer, let it be.For though they may be parted there is still a chance that they will see,there will be an answer. let it be.Let it be, let it be, .....And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light, that shines on me,shine until tomorrow, let it be.I wake up to the sound of music, mother Mary comes to me,speaking words of wisdom, let it be.Let it be, let it be, .....
— Paul McCartney
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
— Helen Keller
That proves you are unusual," returned the Scarecrow; "and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.
— L. Frank Baum
Always be yourself, there's no one better!
— Selena Gómez
Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
— Don Roff
Come friends, it's not too late to seek a newer world.
— Alfred Tennyson
What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life?
— Lynette Mather
Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
— Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood
The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.
— Nick Vujicic
My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid.
— Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin's Blade
One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.
— Tina Fey, Bossypants
Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
— Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success
The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
— Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
— Jack Canfield
Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.
— Tom Hiddleston
Someday is now.
— Gaddy Bergmann
Til shade is gone, til water is goneInto the shadow with teeth baredScreaming defiance with the last breathTo spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.
— Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn
An idea is salvation by imagination
— Frank Lloyd Wright
You have to be the bravest person in the world to go out every day, being yourself when no one likes who you are.
— Matthew Dicks, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
— Swami Vivekananda
The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
— Virginia Woolf
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
— Albert Einstein
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness, and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
— Brian Andreas
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
— E.M. Forster, What I Believe and Other Essays
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
— Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
It's your life-but only if you make it so.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbol means nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not. As I wrote that farewell column to Marley, I realized it was all right there in front of us, if only we opened our eyes. Sometimes it took a dog with bad breath, worse manners, and pure intentions to help us see.
— John Grogan
You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward
— Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
— Dean Karnazes
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
— Martin Luther
According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.
— Deepak Chopra
Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.But I suppose it depends on how you look at it.Distance just adds a richness you would not otherwise get.People come. People go. They will drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book.When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their stories and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones. Not the ones from the past.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
Of all the wonders that I have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.(Act II, Scene 2)
— William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
What hurts us is what heals us
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.
— Demi Lovato
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
— Anonymous, Holy Bible: King James Version
In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
— Ally Condie, Crossed
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
— Epicurus
Life has no victims. There are no victims in this life.No one has the right to point fingers at his/her past and blame it for what he/she is today. We do not have the right to point our finger at someone else and blame that person for how we treat others, today.Don’t hide in the corner, pointing fingers at your past. Don’t sit under the table, talking about someone who has hurt you. Instead, stand up and face your past! Face your fears! Face your pain! And stomach it all! You may have to do so kicking and screaming and throwing fits and crying- but by all means- face it!This life makes no room for cowards.
— C. JoyBell C., The Sun Is Snowing: Poetry & Prose by C. Joybell C
God save us from religion.
— David Eddings