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The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already lived to the fullest. What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him?No, thank you,' he will think. 'Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.
— C.G. Jung
The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Life After Death
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Good Poems for Hard Times
Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.
— Craig Thompson, Blankets
It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever.
— John Bytheway
Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
— Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness.I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.
— Alice Hoffman, Incantation
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
— Lao Tzu
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
— James     Baldwin
Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...
— Gabriel García Márquez
As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.
— Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War
What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
— James Thurber
[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution
You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.
— Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie
Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.
— Sara Shepard, Unbelievable
The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.
— Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice.
— C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.
— Brian Andreas
Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
— Dale Wasserman, Man of La Mancha
All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause – there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you’re all in it now.
— Joss Whedon
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.
— Antonio Machado, Campos de Castilla
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
— Helen Keller
Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.--Alexander Supertramp, May 1992
— Christopher McCandless
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
— John F. Kennedy
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
— Toni Morrison
People would rather believe than know.
— Edward O. Wilson
Smile at strangers and you just might change a life.
— Steve Maraboli
This is your life. Do what you want and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit.If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV.If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love.Stop over-analysing, life is simple.All emotions are beautiful.When you eat, appreciate every last bite.Life is simple.Open your heart, mind and arms to new things and people, we are united in our differences.Ask the next person you see what their passion is and share your inspiring dream with them.Travel often; getting lost will help you find yourself.Some opportunities only come once, seize them.Life is about the people you meet and the things you create with them, so go out and start creating.Life is short, live your dream and wear your passion.
— Holstee Manifesto, The Wedding Day
I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree.A tree whose hungry mouth is pressedAgainst the earth's sweet flowing breast;A tree that looks at God all dayAnd lifts her leafy arms to pray;A tree that may in summer wearA nest of robins in her hair;Upon whose bosom snow has lain;Who intimately lives with rain.Poems are made by fools like me,But only God can make a tree.
— Joyce Kilmer, Trees & Other Poems
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. 
— William Faulkner
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
— Stephen R. Covey
Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
— John Newton, Amazing Grace
I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.
— Madonna
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
— Walt Whitman
Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.
— Robert M. Drake
If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.
— Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia
No one is ever satisfied where he is.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am
— John Newton
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.
— Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley - Volume 1
Nobody steals books but your friends.
— Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon
The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
— Ram Dass
Complain and remain. Praise and be raised.
— Joyce Meyer
With our thoughts we make the world.
— Gautama Buddha
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Life isn't about having, it's about being. You could surround yourself with all that money can buy, and you'd still be as miserable as a human can be. I know people with perfect bodies who don't have half the happiness I've found. On my journeys I've seen more joy in the slums of Mumbai and the orphanages of Africa than in wealthy gated communities and on sprawling estates worth millions. Why is that? You'll find contentment when your talents and passion are completely engaged, in full force. Recognise instant self-gratification for what it is. Resist the temptation to grab for material objects like the perfect house, the coolest clothes or the hottest car. The if I just had X, I would be happy syndrome is a mass delusion. When you look for happiness in mere objects, they are never enough. Look around. Look within.
— Nick Vujicic
You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
— Henry David Thoreau
You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.
— Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Make today worth remembering.
— Zig Ziglar
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself... You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
— Kahlil Gibran
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you are a dreamer come in
— Shel Silverstein
Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.
— Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
— John C. Maxwell
The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
I am so, so alive.
— Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races
He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
— Brigham Young
Women can fake an orgasm, but men can fake an entire relationship.
— Sharon Stone
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
— Michael J. Fox
It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own
— Kerry E. Wagner
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
— Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.
— Leo Buscaglia
A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones
— Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.
— J.K. Rowling, The Casual Vacancy
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
— William Faulkner
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
— Bertrand Russell
The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry, when I was least expecting her.-Roger Sullivan
— Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
— Maimonides, The Guide for the Perplexed
Skies are crying,I am watching,Catching teardrops in my hands.Only silence, as it's ending,Like we never had a chance.Do you have to make me feelLike there's nothing left of me?
— Demi Lovato
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
Achievement has no color
— Abraham Lincoln
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference
— Gerard Way
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
— Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
To write is human, to edit is divine.
— Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.
— Wendy Mass, Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
— John Quincy Adams
I'm the living embodiment of 'it could be worse'.
— Dan Howell
Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite?
— C. JoyBell C.
The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.
— Leo Buscaglia
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!
— Jillian Michaels
If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
— T.H. White, The Once and Future King
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
— Bill Gates
Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.
— Paulo Coelho
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.
— Lady Gaga
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.
— Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.
— John Eldredge
Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.
— Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
Great victory requires great risk.-Hera
— Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!
— Karl Marx
When people see some things as beautiful,other things become ugly.When people see some things as good,other things become bad.
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.Who had nothing, who wanted everything.
— Lana Del Rey
Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
— Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor—your strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this.“Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!”There was a brief pause. us!
— Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of Ages
For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool.
— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India
being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.
— Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
— Walt Disney Company
If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.
— Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
— Lois Lowry
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
— J.K. Rowling
If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day,You have to go places quite out of the way,You have to go places no others can get to.You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.
— Dr. Seuss
By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system. I have termed this constitutive characteristic "the self-transcendence of human existence." It denotes the fact that being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself--be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself--by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love--the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us.
— Emery Allen
Kemampuan membaca itu sebuah rahmat. Kegemaran membaca
—  sebuah kebahagiaan.
It is not enough to be industrious
—  so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
— Winston S. Churchill
And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.
— Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II
Give your weakness to one who helps.
— Jalaluddin Rumi
Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken
People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
He asked, 'Croesus, who told you to attack my land and meet me as an enemy instead of a friend?'The King replied, 'It was caused by your good fate and my bad fate. It was the fault of the Greek gods, who with their arrogance, encouraged me to march onto your lands. Nobody is mad enough to choose war whilst there is peace. During times of peace, the sons bury their fathers, but in war it is the fathers who send their sons to the grave.
— Herodotus, The Histories
When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.
— Stephen King
The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.
— Sanober  Khan, A Thousand Flamingos
Is it easy? Usually not. But you don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for your benefit.
— Andrew Matthews
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)
— Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1
And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.
— A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
The nights you fight best arewhen all the weapons are pointed at you,when all the voices hurl their insultswhile the dream is being strangled.The nights you fight best arewhen reason gets kicked in the gut,when the chariots of gloom encircle you.The nights you fight best arewhen the laughter of fools fills the air,when the kiss of death is mistaken for love.The nights you fight best arewhen the game is fixed,when the crowd screams for your blood.The nights you fight best areon a night like thisas you chase a thousand dark rats from your brain,as you rise up against the impossible,as you become a brother to the tender sister of joyand move on regardless.
— Charles Bukowski
I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees
Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper...
— Demi Lovato
Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco. 
— Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
— Winston S. Churchill
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?
— RuPaul
When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
— Nicholas Sparks, Three Weeks With My Brother
Live boldly. Push yourself. Don't settle.
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul
— Renee Carlino, Sweet Thing
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we’ve learned as we’ve moved toward that dream. That’s the point at which most people give up. It’s the point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have appeared on the horizon.
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
You don't know, oh, ohYou don't know you're beautiful.
— One Direction
if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
— John C. Maxwell, Be a People Person
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
— Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.
— Lewis Black, Me of Little Faith
Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.
— Hiromu Arakawa
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
— Albert Einstein
Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER
— Warren Ellis
Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
— Yehuda Bauer
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
— Les Brown
Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.
— Robert M. Drake
Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.
— Robert M. Drake
that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
— Elbert Hubbard
Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.
— Richard Bach
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
— Sophocles, Antigone
Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there
— Zoë Marriott, Shadows on the Moon
Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give.
— Tom Hiddleston
Everything you'll ever need to know is within you
—  the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
— Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.
— Sarah Dessen, Saint Anything
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
— Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
— C.S. Lewis, Miracles
In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.
— David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.
— Sanaya Roman, Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends
— John Lennon
In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.
— Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember
The treacherous are ever distrustful.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
— Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could
— Zig Ziglar
she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up
— Nelson Mandela
Tearing down the rest of the world won't make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only things that can.
— A.G. Howard, Splintered
Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
— William Arthur Ward
Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.
— John C. Maxwell
LAW 38Think As You Like But Behave Like OthersIf you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.
— Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
— Philip Pullman
Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
— Carl Sagan
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Most lives are not distinguished by great achievements. They are measured by an infinite number of small ones. Each time you do a kindness for someone or bring a smile to his face, it gives your life meaning. Never doubt your value, little friend. The world would be a dismal place without you in it. (tweaked version of a passage from Scandal in Spring)
— Lisa Kleypas, Scandal in Spring
Ends are for yesterday, not tomorrows.
— Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
— Norman Vincent Peale
There is no such thing as a child who hates to read
—  there are only children who have not found the right book.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
— John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy
Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…
— Walt Whitman
I close my eyes  and I can see a better day.  I close my eyes  and pray
— Justin Bieber
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
— Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
— Harry Truman
be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you
— Charles Bukowski
I wrote the song 'Down to Earth' a few years ago, and i was really excited to record it for My World album. It's a huge fan favourite. So many people feel where i'm coming from. It doesn't need any spectacular stage effects in the touring show; the best thing i can do is just sing it straight from my heart. I'm not afraid to show my emotions; if you love someone, you should tell them. If you think a girl is beautiful, you should say that. Usher says some songs work best when there's a sob in the singer's voice. You gotta let that deep feeling come through. And that's how i felt about this song. Sometimes the emotion of it is enough to bring tears to my eyes.
— Justin Bieber
In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out. Usually, what you wish for doesn't fall in your lap; it falls somewhere nearby, and you have to recognize it, stand up, and put in the time and work it takes to get to it. This isn't because the universe is cruel. It's because the universe is smart. It has its own cat-string theory and knows we don't appreciate things that fall into our laps.
— Neil Strauss, The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong.
— Robert M. Drake
I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.
— Walt Disney Company
As the smoke clears,I awaken,And untangle you from me.Would it make you feel betterTo watch me, while I bleed?All my windows still are broken,But I'm standing on my feet.
— Demi Lovato
Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.
— Rick Riordan
There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind words to say. There are gifts to be given. There are deeds to be done. There are souls to be saved.As we remember that “when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God,” (Mosiah 2:17) we will not find ourselves in the unenviable position of Jacob Marley’s ghost, who spoke to Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens’s immortal "Christmas Carol." Marley spoke sadly of opportunities lost. Said he: 'Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused! Yet such was I! Oh! such was I!'Marley added: 'Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode? Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!'Fortunately, as we know, Ebenezer Scrooge changed his life for the better. I love his line, 'I am not the man I was.'Why is Dickens’ "Christmas Carol" so popular? Why is it ever new? I personally feel it is inspired of God. It brings out the best within human nature. It gives hope. It motivates change. We can turn from the paths which would lead us down and, with a song in our hearts, follow a star and walk toward the light. We can quicken our step, bolster our courage, and bask in the sunlight of truth. We can hear more clearly the laughter of little children. We can dry the tear of the weeping. We can comfort the dying by sharing the promise of eternal life. If we lift one weary hand which hangs down, if we bring peace to one struggling soul, if we give as did the Master, we can—by showing the way—become a guiding star for some lost mariner.
— Thomas S. Monson
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
— Aeschylus
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.
— Junot Díaz
You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin
— Jalaluddin Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi
Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.
— Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
We are what we believe we are!
— C.S. Lewis
A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.
— Robert M. Drake
One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today.
— Robert Jordan, Lord of Chaos
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
— Patti Smith
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
— Muhammad Ali
Work is love made visible. And if you can't work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of the people who work with joy
— Kahlil Gibran
You’re only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You’ve done something.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
— Francis of Assisi
Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)
— Douglas Adams
Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.
— Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind