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When someone is searching." said Siddhartha, "then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable one, are perhaps indeed a searcher,because, striving for your goal, there are many things you don't see, which are directly in front of your eyes.
— Hermann Hesse
Motivation and determination for anything comes from within. One can not barrow it from someone else.
— raja shakeel mushtaque
I would rather fail doing God's work than have a pseudo-victory being co-opted by someone else.
— Otis Moss III
No matter how dark it may feel, always remember, that somewhere beyond the darkest clouds the Sun is always shining.
— Kiran Shaikh
The force is within you force yourself. 
— Harrison Ford
What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.
— Christopher Earle
I want to walk inside a Van Gogh sun, and see a better world all different and new.I want to live where there are no shadows, of all those stupid things we both know that we used to do.I want to walk inside a Van Gogh sun, I want to see the world exactly like you do.I want to live where the past doesn’t matter, Whatever it takes I will never give up on you.
— Art Alexakis
Every generation that goes into your genes is a generation of fighters, of survivors. And all those millions of lives are in you, in your blood.
— Nick Lake, There Will Be Lies
Even the beautiful eyes have seen ugly things
— Babay
The force is within you, force yourself.
— Harrison Ford
A key to the brighter future is to reassess goals, priorities and do best to make things happen.
— Martin M. Stupak
Your Dream is not a person when you feel broken and failure enough to say that your dream is dead .Revive it ! don't give up . it's the only thing that makes you not a robot , it's the only thing that makes your life got a meaning .
— Amir Shalaby
Anything I can do, you can do better. It is a matter of belief backed by desire.
— Lucas J. Robak
Indoctrination is dangerous.
— Abhijit Naskar
The sky is not your limit...your beliefs are.
— Lorri Faye
Keep walking on the path of bravery. Keep walking on the path of your passion. Keep walking, and do not stop until you reach your goal.
— Abhijit Naskar
Letting go is not about giving up, being lazy, or sacrificing yourself... Letting go doesn't have to mean losing; it can be about coming into a new, open, clean space from which you can create.
— Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble, The Talking Stick Diaries: Cherish Your Soul
You can hear a song in every word if you listen closely enough.
— Christopher M. Milo, It's Not about Me
Neglect of women is the major cause for the society’s downfall.
— Abhijit Naskar
You are a being of infinite courage.
— Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble, The Talking Stick Diaries: Cherish Your Soul
Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed come no more.Awake! arise! the athlete's arm Loses its strength by too much rest;The fallow land, the untilled farm Produces only weeds at best.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If educated ones would behave like illiterates, how the nation would end corruption?
— Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.
— Anonymous
Remember: to succeed beyond your wildest dreams you need some pretty wild dreams to begin with.
— René Friedrich, Success. Love. Poetry.
If people doubt you, then you made progress from "who cares?
— René Friedrich, Success. Love. Poetry.
Either cry for exchanging new currency notes for couple of days or crib for corruption for ages and generations with old one. Choice is yours.
— Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
Curing cancer affects good cells in short run too but makes a life flourish in long term. Curing corruption affects good people in short run too but makes a nation flourish in long term.
— Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
Anti-corruption policies are like cancer curing treatments. They affect good cells, say good people, in the short run; but make the life of a nation flourish in the long term.
— Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
Curing cancer affects good cells too in the short run but makes a life flourish in the long term. Curing corruption affects good people too in the short run but makes a nation flourish in the long term.
— Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
Biologically speaking, you are the child of Mother Nature, and neurologically speaking, you are the heirs of immortal bliss.
— Abhijit Naskar
Professionals and good Samaritans, once be the gardener of the nation, would root up corruption.
— Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
Erosion of corruption is ambition of a nation. Sow the revolution or go for contribution; if not, opt corroboration.
— Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
Gift the children corruption free nation. Happy Children's day.
— Vikrmn, Corpkshetra
The life is possible without the past. You can always have a fresh start with life, at any point. Each moment millions of children’s are born to have a fresh start with life.
— Roshan Sharma
There is nothing more beautiful than the silence of nature.
— Nina Hrusa
Beauty cannot be limited to physical appearances... because beauty can be felt without being seen.
— Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble, The Talking Stick Diaries: Cherish Your Soul
Struggle is like a tunnel in the road of life; you have to enter, you have to come out.
— Shashank Rayal
If you aren't constantly focused on your goals, you can easily waste all of the time, energy and money you invest in pursuing them.
— Rob Liano
The bounds of human possibility are not as confining as we think they are; they are made to seem to be tight by our weaknesses, our vices, our prejudices that confine them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
Quite surprisingly the majority of religious and spiritual practices actually diminishes your brain’s ability to act out of rage and fear.
— Abhijit Naskar
There is a difference between how you live your life, and what you do with your life.
— Abhijit Naskar
Ordinary will please, but never impress.
— Avinash Rao
Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.Discipline your mind to think positively to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. 
— Roy T. Bennett
That everything you want to happen, will happen, if you decide you want it enough. That every time you think a sad thought, you can think a happy one instead.That you control that completely.That the people who make you laugh are more beautiful than beautiful people. That you laugh more than you cry. That crying is good for you. That the people you hate wish you would stop and you do too.That your friends are reflections of the best parts of you. That you are more than the sum total of the things you know and how you react to them. That dancing is sometimes more important than listening to the music.That the most embarrassing, awkward moments of your life are only remembered by you and no one else
— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
If you surrender to your imagination, the story will write itself.
— T.N. Suarez, The Limbo Tree
I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil
— Genereux Philip
Life is like an Autumn short but colourful.
— Zain Baloch
In my opinion, defining intelligence is much like defining beauty, and I don’t mean that it’s in the eye of the beholder. To illustrate, let’s say that you are the only beholder, and your word is final. Would you be able to choose the 1000 most beautiful women in the country? And if that sounds impossible, consider this: Say you’re now looking at your picks. Could you compare them to each other and say which one is more beautiful? For example, who is more beautiful— Katie Holmes or Angelina Jolie? How about Angelina Jolie or Catherine Zeta-Jones? I think intelligence is like this. So many factors are involved that attempts to measure it are useless. Not that IQ tests are useless. Far from it. Good tests work: They measure a variety of mental abilities, and the best tests do it well. But they don’t measure intelligence itself.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Common will please, but never impress.
— Avinash Rao
I have nothing but a great head to offer.Is that enough?
— Sola Kosoko
We will either find a way, or make one.
— Aníbal Barça
We are all capable of so much more than we think, the only thing we need to do is change our beliefs
— Steven Aitchison
Getting weak is easy. It's staying strong that makes you.
— Avinash Rao
Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
— MATTHEW AUBERT
Not that easy to have tears in your heart but a smile on your lips.
— Avinash Rao
The major barrier to skill acquisition is not intellectual, it is emotional.
— ted talk
Don’t cover up your sore with your wealth. Your wealth has limitations. At the Limit the sore will embarrassing by surface
— Ikechukwu Joseph, Repositioning Yourself for Greater Success
Who you choose to surround yourself with will determine if you fail, or if you will succeed. Assets are people who will support you, build you up, and encourage you. Liabilities are people who will tear you down, discourage you, and give you reasons why you can't do whatever it is you want to do. Minimize the liabilities and you'll go far in life.
— Steven Wolff, Self Aware: Revenge Of The Fallen
Writing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish.What matters is that you enjoy the journey.
— T.N. Suarez, The Limbo Tree
For the sake of the aftermath.
— Steve Dolson
Subliminal influence, is the constant drive to the change in consumer choices.
— Wayne Chirisa
Your belief is the operating system on which your life runs.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Nothing is impossible because the only obstacle is you
— Darin E. Lee
Living someone else's vision, is proclaiming death to your imparted destiny, and proclaiming life to the destiny of the visionaries pursuing their visions.
— Wayne Chirisa
There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.
— Wayne Chirisa
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.
— Marilyn Monroe
If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.
— Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
— Plato
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
— Douglas Coupland, Life After God
This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartache. You can't have a sense of victory unless you know what it means to fail. You can't know what it's like to feel holy until you know what it's like to feel really fucking evil. And you can't be birthed again until you've died.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
— Mary Oliver
It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
— Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita
There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
— Maya Angelou
First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
Certain things in life simply have to be experienced -and never explained. Love is such a thing.
— Paulo Coelho, Maktub
I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.
— Douglas Coupland
He who becomes the slave of habit,who follows the same routes every day,who never changes pace,who does not risk and change the color of his clothes,who does not speak and does not experience,dies slowly.He or she who shuns passion,who prefers black on white,dotting ones "it’s" rather than a bundle of emotions, the kind that make your eyes glimmer,that turn a yawn into a smile,that make the heart pound in the face of mistakes and feelings,dies slowly.He or she who does not turn things topsy-turvy,who is unhappy at work,who does not risk certainty for uncertainty,to thus follow a dream,those who do not forego sound advice at least once in their lives,die slowly.He who does not travel, who does not read,who does not listen to music,who does not find grace in himself,she who does not find grace in herself,dies slowly.He who slowly destroys his own self-esteem,who does not allow himself to be helped,who spends days on end complaining about his own bad luck, about the rain that never stops,dies slowly.He or she who abandon a project before starting it, who fail to ask questions on subjects he doesn't know, he or she who don't reply when they are asked something they do know,die slowly.Let's try and avoid death in small doses,reminding oneself that being alive requires an effort far greater than the simple fact of breathing.Only a burning patience will leadto the attainment of a splendid happiness.
— Martha Medeiros
You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?” Aunty Ifeka said. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.
— Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble
— Rudyard Kipling
Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, pray, love: one woman's search for everything
Help someone, you earn a friend. Help someone too much, you make an enemy.
— Erol Ozan
That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.
— Cecelia Ahern, If You Could See Me Now
Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing.
— Jennifer Brown, Hate List
I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr., Live and Learn and Pass It On, Volume II: People Ages 5 to 95 Share What They've Discovered About Life, Love, and Other Good Stuff
Give out what you most want to come back.
— Robin S. Sharma, The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class
You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.
— Joe Hill, Horns
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.
— Paulo Coelho
Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do.
— Paulo Coelho, Aleph
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
— Thomas Hobbes
You know the saying: he who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. And when it's repeated, the stakes are doubled.
— Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.
— Jonas Jonasson, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Your fear is 100% dependent on you for its survival.
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.
— Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are
— Iain S. Thomas, Intentional Dissonance
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
— Mel Brooks
When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
— Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
— Aristotle, The Philosophy of Aristotle
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
— Aesop, Aesop's Fables
Never assume that the person you are dealing with is weaker or less important than you are. Some people are slow to take offense, which may make you misjudge the thickness of their skin, and fail to worry about insulting them. But should you offend their honor and their pride, they will overwhelm you with a violence that seems sudden and extreme given their slowness to anger. If you want to turn people down, it is best to do so politely and respectfully, even if you feel their request is impudent or their offer ridiculous.
— Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good aboutyourself.
— Robin S. Sharma
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
— Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.
— Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Nothing in this world happens by chance.
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die
You were born to win, but to be a winner you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.
— Zig Ziglar
To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life
— Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.
— Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost.
— Kellie Elmore
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
— Ann Patchett, What Now?
In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.
— Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon's Lexicon
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
— Maya Angelou
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
— Erica Jong
It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.
— Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One
If someone told me that I could live my life again free of depression provided I was willing to give up the gifts depression has given me--the depth of awareness, the expanded consciousness, the increased sensitivity, the awareness of limitation, the tenderness of love, the meaning of friendship, the apreciation of life, the joy of a passionate heart--I would say, 'This is a Faustian bargain! Give me my depressions. Let the darkness descend. But do not take away the gifts that depression, with the help of some unseen hand, has dredged up from the deep ocean of my soul and strewn along the shores of my life. I can endure darkness if I must; but I cannot lie without these gifts. I cannot live without my soul.' (p. 188)
— David Elkins, Beyond Religion: A Personal Program for Building a Spiritual Life Outside the Walls of Traditional Religion
Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?
— Justin Alcala
Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall
— Paolo Nutini
(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Voyage
I don't think that anything happens by coincidence... No one is here by accident... Everyone who crosses our path has a message for us. Otherwise they would have taken another path, or left earlier or later. The fact that these people are here means that they are here for some reason"...
— James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide to the Nine Insights
Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.
— Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
When they killed him, Mother wouldn't hold her peace, so they slit her throat. I was stupid then, being only nine, and I fought to save them both. But the thorns held me tight. I've learned to appreciate thorns since. The thorns taught me the game. They let me understand what all those grim and serious men who've fought the Hundred War have yet to learn. You can only win the game when you understand that it IS a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him loose them all.
— Mark  Lawrence, Prince of Thorns
...fool me once, shame on me…fool me twice…I deserved to get fucked over.
— Derekica Snake, Tentacles for the Brides Bouquet
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom
— George S. Patton Jr.
Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.
— Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses
When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
What could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it
— Edward Albee
The people you are closest to tend to be able to hurt you the most - that is why heartbreak is so hard to deal with, why death is so painful, and why fights can destroy things that matter.
— Megan Wilson
Be brave. Even if you're not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference. Don't allow the phone to interrupt important moments. It's there for your convenience, not the callers. Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river. Don't forget, a person's greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated. Don't major in minor things. Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Leonardo Da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. Don't spread yourself too thin. Learn to say no politely and quickly. Don't use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Don't waste time grieving over past mistakes Learn from them and move on. Every person needs to have their moment in the sun, when they raise their arms in victory, knowing that on this day, at his hour, they were at their very best. Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office'. Give people a second chance, but not a third. Judge your success by the degree that you're enjoying peace, health and love. Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly. Leave everything a little better than you found it. Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation. Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life and death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems. Never cut what can be untied. Never overestimate your power to change others. Never underestimate your power to change yourself. Remember that overnight success usually takes about fifteen years. Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do. Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out. Spend less time worrying who's right, more time deciding what's right. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life. Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get. The importance of winning is not what we get from it, but what we become because of it. When facing a difficult task, act as though it's impossible to fail.
— Jackson Brown  Jr.
There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don't lose yourself at happy hour, but don't lose yourself on the corporate ladder, either.
— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way
Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.
— Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea
You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.
— Satchel Paige
Be bold. But not bold, be fucking bold.
— James Frey, My Friend Leonard
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
the scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .
— Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise
There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. Time didn't mean anything, nothing had form but I was still me, you know? And I was warm and I was loved and I was finished. Complete. I don't understand about theology or dimensions, or any of it, really but I think I was in heaven. And now I'm not. I was torn out of there. Pulled out by my friends. Everything here is hard, and bright, and violent. Everything I feel, everything I touch this is hell. Just getting through the next moment, and the one after that knowing what I've lost...
— Joss Whedon
...I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most.
— David Archuleta, Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life
— Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
Complex question can only be solved by patience.
— Hlovate, Contengan Jalanan
The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story
— Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
— Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry at that person, if you haven't been able to forgive, you are chained to him. Everyone could feel the emotional truth of that: When someone offends you and you haven't let go, every time you see him, you grow breathless or your heart skips a beat. If the trauma was really severe, you dream of revenge. Above you, is the Mountain of Peace and Prosperity where we all want to go. But when you try to climb that hill, the person you haven't forgiven weighs you down. It's a personal choice whether or not to let go. No one can tell you how long to mourn a death or rage over a rape. But you can't move forward until you break that chain.
— Leymah Gbowee, Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.
— Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.
— David Archuleta, Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
— Denis Waitley
... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.
— Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
Never mistrust, unless given a reason.
— Sonia Rumzi
Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.
— D.B. Harrop
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
— Zadie Smith, White Teeth
Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks.
— Jill Shalvis, Simply Irresistible
Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself.
— Draya Mooney
Enjoy every bit of your life to the fullest. Your compromises and sacrifices will be rewarded.
— Santosh Kalwar
Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.
— James Allen, Byways of Blessedness
You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx
The right thing to do is so easy to see when you're seventeen years old and don't have to make any big decisions. When you know that no matter what you do, someone will take care of you and fix everything. But when you're grown up, the world is not that black and white, and the right thing doesn't a tidy little arrow pointing to it.
— Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door
Necessity is the mother of invention.
— Aesop, Aesop's Fables
Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
The problem with thick skin is that it leaves you impervious to the sharpest of pins. Everything becomes dull. But without that sense of pain, there cannot be that sense of relief. Ultimately, the thickened skin leaves you numb, incapable of feeling the highs and lows of life. It leaves you rough like a rock and just as inanimate.
— Michael Soll
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
— Les Brown
The formula of life is simple. It is the formula of giving - giving courage, attention, peace, love and comfort to yourself and the society.
— Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
Live the moment. Cherish the present. Anticipate the future. Frame the yesteryear
— Hlovate, Contengan Jalanan
It's a dangerous thing when you have love without faith and trust... No one wants to feel unsure when they give their heart away.
— Solange nicole
Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up
— Alexandra Potter, You're (Not) the One
Just live well. Just live
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
You will never be who you want to be, until you are happy with who you are.
— Thomas F. Shubnell
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
— John Muir
Get away from these two types of people: the ones who think you can only go as far as the situation you were born into and the ones who think you can only go as far as the current situation you are in.
— Dee Dee M. Scott, Joy Cometh In The Morning
Nothing fun in life is easy.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Wait for You
How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.
— Kentetsu Takamori
A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you're sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess - it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.
— Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories
I always laugh at the term 'Cinderella story', because, if you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.
— Chris Colfer, The Wishing Spell
Congratulations!Today is your dayYou're off to great placesYou're off and awayYou've got brains in your headYou've got feet in your shoesYou can steer yourself anyDirection you chooseYou're on your ownAnd you know what you knowAnd you are the guyWho'll decide where you goOut there things can happenAnd frequently doTo people as brainyAnd footsy as youAnd will you succeed?Yes you will indeed!(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed)You're off to great placesToday is your dayYour mountain is waitingGo, get on your way!
Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.
— Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage
It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.
— Corita Kent
Just because the boat rocks doesn't mean it's time to jump overboard.
— Suzanne Woods Fisher, The Keeper: A Novel
When life brings you full circle, pay attention. There's a lesson there.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
The Law of Inertia states that a body in motion will remain in motion, and a body at rest will remain at rest. In life, nothing will happen when no one will make a move
— HaveYouSeenThisGirL, She Died
Embrace nothing:If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha.If you meet your father, kill your father.Only live your life as it is,Not bound to anything.
— Gautama Siddharta
But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
— Marcel Proust
You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.
— Chris Fabry, A Marriage Carol
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end
— Immanuel Kant
I could not but wonder at the queen's unprecedented civility, until I realized with a flush of shame that it was my own improved behavior that motivated hers. So it is that we in life determine our own treatment.
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Princess Ben
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.
— Shannon L. Alder
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." - Helen Burns
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Before he knew he was immortal. Before life was no longer fragile. Those were the days when life truly meant something.When life was hard but worthwile, and love was valuable because your days were numbered.That was living.
— Chelsea Fine, Anew
What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
— Mark Twain
Get this in mind early: We never grow up.
— Richard Bach
They've drummed the miraculous out of you, but you don't want it to be like that. You want the miraculous. You want everything to still be new.
— Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now
Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.
— Johanna de Silentio
It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.
— Haruki Murakami, After the Quake
And there it was. He knew it, and I knew it. There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite? I just tried to be, tried to absorb the man I loved through osmosis, tried to imprint what I had left of him on myself. I did not speak...
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
There is no wealth but life.
— John Ruskin, The King of the Golden River
Sometimes you're trying so hard to get your life together and still it's not enough, everything is falling apart. What to do, you're asking. Just keep going through hell for yourself, not for everyone else. Richer with that wisdom, I will build my happiness from nothing. I will rise from the dust. And I will do it on my own. I will live for myself and I won’t look at the others.
— Asper Blurry, Train to the Edge of the Moon
Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don't have any of that. There's nothing between you and despair, and you don't seem a very desperate person.' 'Too stupid.' 'You're not stupid. So why don't you ever put your head in the oven?' 'I don't know. There's always a new Nirvana album to look forward to, or something happening in NYPD Blue to make you want to watch the next episode.' 'Exactly.' 'That's the point? NYPD Blue? Jesus.' It was worse than he thought. 'No, no. The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point. I don't know if you even realize it, but on the quiet you don't think life's too bad. You love things. Telly. Music. Food.
— Nick Hornby, About a Boy
Sometimesyou meet people and know immediatelythat they were meant to be your friend.
— Alison G. Bailey, Present Perfect
Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry. ~Kurogane-san
— CLAMP
be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.
— Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.
— Nick Cave
And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.
— Nadège Richards, 5 Miles
I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.
— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress
To protect themselves, the weak focus on the "bad" in people. Conversely, the strong, who fear little, focus on the "good".
— Iimani David
Ah, but I was so much older thenI’m younger than that now
— Bob Dylan
Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.
— Chetan Bhagat, 2 States: The Story of My Marriage
He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.
— Jennifer Donnelly, The Winter Rose
Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.
— Lavinia Spalding
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
— Gautama Buddha
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
— L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
The problem with falling in love is falling back out of it again, usually because you've fallen in love with a lie. That happens as often as not.
— Ellen Hopkins, Tilt
I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.
— Dorothy Koomson, The Rose Petal Beach
There's no such thing as ready, there's only willing.
— Rachel Cohn, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.
— Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
Some times things just fall off your plate.
— V.K. Springs
When life hands you lemons say,"Lemons? What else have you got?"- bumper sticker
— Darynda Jones, Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
We may indeed die here, that's true. But we will all die anyway-is there any denying that? When you think of all the possible ways you might go, this is as fine a place as any, isn't it? I mean, to end one's life surrounded by friends, in a comfortable, dry room with plenty to read... that doesn't sound too awful, does it?""What is the advantage of fear, or the benefit of regret, or the bonus of granting misery a foothold even if death is embracing you? My old abbot used to say, 'Life is only precious if you wish it to be.' I look at it like the last bite of a wonderful meal-do you enjoy it, or does the knowledge that there is no more to follow make it so bitter that you would ruin the experience?" The monk looked around, but no one answered him. "If Maribor wishes for me to die, who am I to argue? After all, it is he who gave me life to begin with. Until he decides I am done, each day is a gift granted to me, and it would be wasted if spent poorly. Besides, for me, I've learned that the last bite is often the sweetest.
— Michael J. Sullivan, Percepliquis
I don't think you ever realize how much you love something until you have to give it up.” ~Haley James Scott
— Brooke Davies
Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So, what's the point?
— Stuart Neville, The Twelve
And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.
— Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker, Wyatt mused, was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.
— Bridie Clark
Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
I don't forgive him," I said."Hell, no, you don't. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what's he done to help you get on with yours?
— Kelley Armstrong, Frostbitten
Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there
— Zig Ziglar
One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.
— Christopher Buehlman
Only if you are possible, everything will be possible.
— Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday
If you find yourself easily provoked, then just change the channel.
— Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back
— Ally Condie, Matched
It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.
— Lorii Myers, Make It Happen, A Healthy, Competitive Approach to Achieving Personal Success
Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life.
— Steve Chandler
Life is choosing whom and what you love. Everything else follows.
— Todd  Johnson, The Sweet By and By
But that's life. That's what you learn from when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.
— Per Petterson, Out Stealing Horses
Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
Some things need to be left unsaid.
— Simone Elkeles, Wild Cards
Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.
— Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls
I didn't give up, I walked awayI had enough of accepting actions that were less than I deserved.So...I made a concious choiceTo honour myself,Before complementing another & If that's what; has made you undeniably mad, Than I know, the history of our connection is hidden in the truth of your heart and regardless of your outcome, I have made the right choice for me.
— Nikki Rowe
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
— D.H. Lawrence