Top 999+ Inspirational Quotes About Life & Success

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Do you have a tiring day, all your efforts seem pointless? Let’s check 999+ inspirational quotes, positive quotes, thoughts, and messages in this article to start the day with spirits full of positive energy.

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“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” – Isaac Asimov
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.” – Victor Hugo
“It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.” – Confucius
“You Are the Master of Your Attitude, You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” – Galileo Galilei
“It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.” – Roy T. Bennett
“You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.” – Roy T. Bennett
“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll
“Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.” – Roy T. Bennett

“If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Don’t think about making life better for other people who don’t even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.” – C. JoyBell C.
“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.” – Confucius
“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.” – Sabaa Tahir
“It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.” – Roy T. Bennett
“You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.” – Epicurus
“Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.” – Roy T. Bennett
“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.” – Nicholas Klein
“I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT…Goodbye.” – Steve Maraboli
“Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.” – Rick Riordan
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“I’ll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.” – Margaret Mitchell
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.” – Neil Gaiman
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand , And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, , Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand , And Eternity in an hour.” – William Blake
“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.” – Margaret Walker
“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
“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” – Roy T. Bennett
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.” – Paulo Coelho
“You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.” – Lucille Clifton
“To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?, [, (, , Oct. 4, 1930)]” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such” – Henry Miller
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” – Winston S. Churchill
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Hope is the thing with feathers , That perches in the soul , And sings the tune without the words , And never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson
“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli
“I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face, I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.” – Laurell K. Hamilton
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.” – Joseph Campbell
“I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.” – Mother Teresa
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you’re going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.” – Markus Zusak
“You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” – A.A. Milne
“To be rejected by someone doesn’t mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn’t mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person’s opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.” – Jocelyn Soriano
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” – Mark Twain
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” – Agatha Christie
“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: It’s gonna go wrong. Or She’s going to hurt me. Or,I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . . Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.” – Ray Bradbury
“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.” – Charlotte BrontE«
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Maraboli
“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” – Goethe
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.” – Mark Twain
“Always believe in yourself and always stretch yourself beyond your limits. Your life is worth a lot more than you think because you are capable of accomplishing more than you know. You have more potential than you think, but you will never know your full potential unless you keep challenging yourself and pushing beyond your own self imposed limits.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.” – Stephen Fry
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.” – Paulo Coelho
“Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Everything’s a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.” – Nicola Yoon
“To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Hearts are breakable, Isabelle said. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.” – Cassandra Clare
“The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett
““Well, now, If little by little you stop loving me, I shall stop loving you, Little by little, If suddenly you forget me, Do not look for me, For I shall already have forgotten you, If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life, And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots, Remember, That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms, And my roots will set off to seek another land” – Pablo Neruda
“He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see.” – Ayn Rand
“There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.” – Robert Frost
“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.” – George Washington Burnap
“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.” – Steve Maraboli
“Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.” – Oprah Winfrey
“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.” – Anais Nin
“Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they make a good excuse.” – Thomas Szasz
“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.” – J.K. Rowling
“There’s more to life than dating the boy on the football team.” – Taylor Swift
“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” – Rick Riordan
“Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” – Mother Teresa
“Feet, what do I need them for, If I have wings to fly.” – Frida Kahlo
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.” – Roy T. Bennett
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.” – Stephen Chbosky

“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” – Anonymous
“Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” – Gustave Flaubert
“My name is Celaena Sardothien, she whispered, and I will not be afraid.” – Sarah J. Maas
“Getting something and having the wits to use it…those are two different things.” – Rick Riordan
“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.” – Steve Maraboli
“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not This is misfortune, but To bear this worthily is good fortune.” – Marcus Aurelius
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” – Elie Wiesel

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” – G.K. Chesterton
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.” – Cormac McCarthy
“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.” – Neil Gaiman
“Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.” – Michael Jackson
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” – Randy Pausch
“To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.” – Aristotle
“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.” – Anais Nin
“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.” – Steve Maraboli
“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.” – Patricia Cornwell
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” – Robert Fulghum
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” – Marilyn Monroe
“I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don’t read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways…It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being.” – John Connolly
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.” – Zayn Malik
“I’d rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.” – Terry Pratchett
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.” – Henry David Thoreau
“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.” – Madonna
“It’s not about how to achieve your dreams, it’s about how to lead your life, … If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.” – Randy Pausch
“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!” – Chuck Palahniuk
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.” – Sam Levenson
“Associate Yourself with People Who Think Positively: , Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.” – Roy T. Bennett
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?” – Rumi
“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” – Bette Midler
“Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” – Jim Henson
“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.” – Turcios Ominext
“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.” – Mae West
“There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.” – AnaIs Nin
“If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.” – Ronald Reagan
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir
“Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.” – Ben Franklin
“What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you’d want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So don’t be afraid. Be alive.” – Sarah Dessen
“Before, I wanted to say: I found love! But now, I want to say: I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.” – C. JoyBell C.
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.” – Audrey Hepburn
“The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.” – Carolyn Forché
“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.” – Rumi
“Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.” – Brandon Sanderson
“Dreams don’t work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.” – Roy T. Bennett
“. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.” – Rebecca Walker
“Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.” – Miguel de Unamuno
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” – Bill Gates
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.” – Paulo Coelho
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli
“People don’t realize how a man’s whole life can be changed by one book.” – Malcolm X
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.” – Bob Marley
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
“Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.” – Joss Whedon
“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.” – Ellen DeGeneres
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.” – Khaled Hosseini
“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” – Wendy Wasserstein
“Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!” – Jocelyn Soriano
“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” – Elbert Hubbard
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” – Stephen Chbosky

“I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.” – Audrey Hepburn
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.” – Sir Winston Churchill
“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty…One couldn’t die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she’s the one I’ve watered. Since she’s the one I put under glass, since she’s the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she’s the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she’s the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she’s my rose.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.” – Will Self
“Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful.” – Hiromu Arakawa
“Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it…Don’t allow his anger to become your anger.” – Bodhi Sanders
“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“For Equilibrium, a Blessing:, Like the joy of the sea coming home to shore, May the relief of laughter rinse through your soul. As the wind loves to call things to dance, May your gravity by lightened by grace. Like the dignity of moonlight restoring the earth, May your thoughts incline with reverence and respect. As water takes whatever shape it is in, So free may you be about who you become. As silence smiles on the other side of what’s said, May your sense of irony bring perspective. As time remains free of all that it frames, May your mind stay clear of all it names. May your prayer of listening deepen enough, to hear in the depths the laughter of god.” – John O’Donohue
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” – Harry S. Truman
“Step follows step, Hope follows Courage, Set your face towards danger, Set your heart on victory.” – Gail Carson Levine
“There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet.” – Steve Maraboli
“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars, to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” – St. Francis Of Assisi
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” – Dolly Parton
“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” – John A. Shedd
“Envy is ignorance, , Imitation is Suicide.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.” – George Carlin
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion’.” – Muhammad Ali
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey
“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” – George Orwell
“Do not let the roles you play in life make you forget who you are.” – Roy T. Bennett
“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you’re born to stand out” – Oliver James
“It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.” – Steve Maraboli
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.” – maya angelou
“Stories never really end…even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don’t end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.” – Cornelia Funke
“We can’t choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.” – J.K. Rowling
“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.” – Neil Gaiman
“I may not always be with you , But when we’re far apart, Remember you will be with me, Right inside my heart” – Marc Wambolt
“I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you’re horrible to me, I’m going to write a song about it, and you won’t like it. That’s how I operate.” – Taylor Swift
“Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other” – Veronica Roth
“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.” – Roy T. Bennett
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
“Pain is a pesky part of being human, I’ve learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can’t be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Everyone you meet is a part of your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay in your life. Some people are just passing through to bring you gifts; either they’re blessings or lessons.” – Roy T. Bennett
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I think that one of these days, he said, you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there. But immediately. You can’t afford to lose a minute. Not you.” – J.D. Salinger
“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama XIV
“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” – Walt Disney Company
“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela
“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.” – Aristotle
“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” – John Bunyan
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” – William Shakespeare
“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.” – Peter S. Beagle
“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” – Helen Keller
“I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I can’t change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.” – charles de lint
“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.” – Laurell K. Hamilton
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.” – Homer
“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.” – Kurt Cobain
“Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.” – Roy T. Bennett
“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” – Suzanne Collins
“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” – Lloyd Alexander
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. Rowling

“Dear God, she prayed, let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere – be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.” – Betty Smith
“To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.” – Bill Wilson
“We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.” – Martin Luther
“The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it’s your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who’s not full of hate, who’s able to smile and be carefree. So that’s who I have to be.” – C. JoyBell C.
“…there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.” – David Mitchell
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” – Haruki Murakami
“After all, Anne had said to Marilla once, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.” – L.M. Montgomery
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank
“Because, she said, when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, , brave.” – Neil Gaiman
“People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don’t we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!” – C. JoyBell C.
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.” – Clive Barker
“It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we’re wrong is courage, not weakness.” – Roy T. Bennett
“You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.” – Charlie Chaplin
“I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that’s in it. , Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.” – Maya Angelou
“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“The reason birds can fly and we can’t is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” – J.M. Barrie
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” – Henri Nouwen
“Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Dr. Seuss
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.” – Henry Rollins
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin
“Let go of something old that no longer serves you in order to make room for something new.” – Roy T. Bennett
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” – Marcel Proust
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.” – Albert Einstein
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.” – Susan Polis Schutz
“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.” – Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,” – Amit Ray
“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man’s story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.” – Hermann Hesse
“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.” – Alice Sebold
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” – Haruki Murakami
“In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.” – Sophie Kinsella
“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.” – Lily Tomlin
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Seneca
“There’s so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.” – Marilynne Robinson
“Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.” – Buddha
“In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.” – Fred Rogers
“Don’t confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!” – Steve Maraboli
“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.” – Jodi Picoult
“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” – Kathryn Stockett
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.” – Ayn Rand
“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I’ll get through today.” – Gayle Forman
“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – St. Francis Of Assisi
“Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:, Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, God, I love you and looked to the sky and really meant it. I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other. To the children and the innocent it’s all the same.” – Jack Kerouac
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden
“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.” – Rumi
“The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!” – Edward J. Stieglitz
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” – Nelson Mandela
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” – Wayne Dyer
“It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.” – Roy T. Bennett
“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are” – Kurt Cobain
“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.” – Che Guevara
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. (Popular misquote of You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.)” – Maya Angelou
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.” – Mark Twain
“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.” – George Lucas
“When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.” – Paulo Coelho
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” – Robert M. Pirsig
“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.” – Max Ehrmann
“Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Everyone enjoys being acknowledged and appreciated. Sometimes even the simplest act of gratitude can change someone’s entire day. Take the time to recognize and value the people around you and appreciate those who make a difference in your lives.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.” – Robert Frost
“But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.” – Rick Riordan
“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one” – Rumi
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“The thing about growing up with Fred and George, said Ginny thoughtfully, is that you sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” – J. K. Rowling
“In the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.” – Ally Condie
“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.” – Sarah Vowell
“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.” – Albert Einstein
“What’s the good of living if you don’t try a few things?” – Charles M. Schulz
“Don’t give up the fight, Stand up for your rights.” – Bob Marley
“Make the most of the best and the best of the worst, and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.” – Plato
“Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.” – Anonymous
“It’s funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.” – Steve Maraboli
“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.” – Lilith Saintcrow
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.” – Thomas Edison
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.” – Tupac Shakur
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
“So many things are possible as long as you don’t know they are impossible.” – Mildred D. Taylor
“You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in.” – Roy T. Bennett
“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
“Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.” – Zora Neale Hurston
“Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!, Why do you stay in prison, When the door is so wide open?” – Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
“For myself I am an optimist – it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.” – Winston S. Churchill
“If you can’t run, you crawl. If you can’t crawl– you find someone to carry you.” – Joss Whedon
“You see things; you say, Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?” – George Bernard Shaw
“Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” – Chico Xavier
“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” – A.A. Milne
“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.” – Bruce Lee
“Bottom line is, even if you see ’em coming, you’re not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can’t help that. It’s what you do afterwards that counts. That’s when you find out who you are.” – Joss Whedon
“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time.” – Laurie Halse Anderson
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa
“Enthusiasm can help you find the new doors, but it takes passion to open them. If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” – Lois McMaster Bujold
“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …” – Marcus Aurelius
“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he’s everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he’s not easy to spot; he’s really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.” – Taylor Swift
“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.” – Dalai Lama XIV
“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.” – Eckhart Tolle
“There is no need to search; achievement leads to nowhere. It makes no difference at all, so just be happy now! Love is the only reality of the world, because it is all One, you see. And the only laws are paradox, humor and change. There is no problem, never was, and never will be. Release your struggle, let go of your mind, throw away your concerns, and relax into the world. No need to resist life, just do your best. Open your eyes and see that you are far more than you imagine. You are the world, you are the universe; you are yourself and everyone else, too! It’s all the marvelous Play of God. Wake up, regain your humor. Don’t worry, just be happy. You are already free!” – Dan Millman
“No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.” – Pittacus Lore
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” – Zig Ziglar
“I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.” – Tupac Shakur
“Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.” – Alberto Manguel
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it…” – Wilfred Peterson
“What’s done is done. What’s gone is gone. One of life’s lessons is always moving on. It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn
“Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That’s what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.” – Lauren Oliver
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” – Albert Einstein

“You’re never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true.” – Richard Bach
“Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.” – Rick Riordan
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.” – Ayn Rand
“There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.” – Chris Colfer
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.” – Victor Hugo
“Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.” – Margaret Weis
“the time is always right to do the right thing” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast, that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.” – Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
“They laugh at me because I’m different; I laugh at them because they’re all the same.” – Kurt Cobain
“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” – Will Rogers
“do not look for healing, at the feet of those, who broke you” – Rupi Kaur
“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Tomorrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools, The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!, Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale, Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” – William Shakespeare
“If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.” – Walt Disney
“Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.” – Roy T. Bennett
“To care about your outward appearance is important, but what’s more important is to have a beautiful soul.” – Roy T. Bennett
“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Do what you love, love what you do, and with all your heart give yourself to it.” – Roy T. Bennett
“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.” – Abraham Lincoln
“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t. If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more. Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.” – Abraham Verghese
“A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.” – Roy T. Bennett
“there is a place in the heart that, will never be filled, a space, and even during the, best moments, and, the greatest times, times, we will know it, we will know it, more than, ever, there is a place in the heart that, will never be filled, and, we will wait, and, wait, in that space.” – Charles bukowski
“Patience Is Not the Ability to Wait: , Patience is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens, constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. . I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.” – Henry David Thoreau
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” – Albert Einstein

“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
“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one’s companion.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“You become what you think about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.” – Anais Nin
“You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you’re still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory.” – Steve Maraboli
“A Woman in harmony with her spirit, is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination, prepared to be herself, and only herself” – Maya Angelou
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” – Shel Silverstein

“As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” – Wilfred Arlan Peterson
“But if I’m it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I’m going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity’s last war, then I am the battlefield.” – Rick Yancey
“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” – J.K. Rowling
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.” – John Lennon
“Sometimes, as we’re stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.” – Susan Ee
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” – Albert Einstein
“Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.” – Roy T. Bennett
“To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.” – Roy T. Bennett
“And that’s when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I’m still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he’s in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.” – Gayle Forman
“Be the positive impact on the lives of others.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.” – William James
“If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.” – Steve Maraboli
“Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don’t want one.” – Jon Krakauer
“Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don’t take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo
“Things die. But they don’t always stay dead. Believe me, I know.” – Richelle Mead
“Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.” – P.C. Cast
“It doesn’t matter how many people you meet in your life; you just need the real ones who accept you for who you are and help you become who you should be.” – Roy T. Bennett
“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew – and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents – that there was all the difference in the world.” – J.K. Rowling
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell
“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” – Joseph Campbell
“No life is a waste, the Blue Man said. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we’re alone.” – Mitch Albom
“My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive–I’ll find love again.” – Paulo Coelho
“But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself — avoid trying to be something you’re not. For a goddess, that’s especially hard. We can change so easily., -Aphrodite” – Rick Riordan
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
“Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.” – The Dalai Lama
“You are not rich until you have a rich heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.” – C. JoyBell C.
“What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” – Hans Urs von Balthasar
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” – Bill Keane

“Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.” – Rick Riordan
“Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.” – Pandora Poikilo
“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
“When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light.” – Jerry Spinelli
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” – John Lubbock
“Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” – Albert Schweitzer
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.” – G.K. Chesterton
“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” – Roald Dahl
“May Light always surround you; Hope kindle and rebound you. May your Hurts turn to Healing; Your Heart embrace Feeling. May Wounds become Wisdom; Every Kindness a Prism. May Laughter infect you; Your Passion resurrect you. May Goodness inspire , your Deepest Desires. Through all that you Reach For, , May your arms Never Tire.” – D. Simone
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” – Maya Angelou
“I’m going to paraphrase Thoreau here… rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness… give me truth. ” – Jon Krakauer
“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.” – Roy T. Bennett
“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.” – Gilles Deleuze
“…Next time you’re faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.” – Wendelin Van Draanen
“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.” – Maya Angelou
“Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” – Roy T. Bennett
“If you don’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?” – RuPaul
“I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.” – Stephen Hawking
“Whenever something bad happens, keep calm, take a few deep breaths and shift the focus to something positive.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” – Frederick Buechner
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” – Voltaire
“It doesn’t matter if a million people tell you what you can’t do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that’s all you need.” – Tyler Perry
“Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.” – Mikhail Bulgakov

“You are unique. You have different talents and abilities. You don’t have to always follow in the footsteps of others. And most important, you should always remind yourself that you don’t have to do what everyone else is doing and have a responsibility to develop the talents you have been given.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Life has no remote….get up and change it yourself!” – Mark A. Cooper
“Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles” – Tahereh Mafi
“Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.” – Bill Watterson
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.” – Alan Moore
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!” – Charlotte BrontE«
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” – Theodore Parker
“A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you’re fast asleep.” – Walt Disney Company
“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place” – Iain Thomas
“You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down” – Charlie Chaplin
“Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.” – Meg Cabot
“The windows of my soul I throw, Wide open to the sun.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
“Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.” – Brandon Sanderson
“I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.” – Yann Martel
“Sit in a room and read–and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.” – Joseph Campbell
“Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.” – T.S. Eliot
“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. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou
“Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely essential.” – Jessamyn West
“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” – Roy T. Bennett
“When you take control of your attitude, you take control of your life.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.” – Thomas Bernhard
“please believe that things are good with me, and even when they’re not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.” – Stephen Chbosky
“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.” – Judy Blume
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” – Louisa May Alcott
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. is soon forgotten, but , lasts forever.” – Philip Pullman
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
“Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can.” – John Wesley
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.” – H. Jackson Brown
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.” – Walt Whitman
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho
“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.” – Helen Keller
“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.” – Abraham Lincoln
“One Choice, One Choice, decided your friends. One Choice, defines your beliefs. One Choice, determines your loyalties – Forever. ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU” – Veronica Roth
“You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve, said Aslan. And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.” – C.S. Lewis
“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama XIV
“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.” – Rumi
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” – Paulo Coelho

“It’s not the face, but the expressions on it. It’s not the voice, but what you say. It’s not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.” – Stephenie Meyer
“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.” – Henri Bergson
“I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing , than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance” – E.E. Cummings
“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
“People where you live, the little prince said, grow five thousand roses in one garden… yet they don’t find what they’re looking for… They don’t find it, I answered. And yet what they’re looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water… Of course, I answered. And the little prince added, But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“You will never follow your own inner voice until you clear up the doubts in your mind.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” – Leo Tolstoy
“Do Not Lie to Yourself , We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas A. Edison
“You’re alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you’re dead, it’s gone. Over. You’ve made what you’ve made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.” – Neil Gaiman
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The love that moves the sun and the other stars.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!” – Maya Angelou
“I know because I read…Your mind is not a cage. It’s a garden. And it requires cultivating.” – Libba Bray
“Nothing makes a person happier than having a happy heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Bitch (noun): A woman who won’t bang her head against the wall obsessing over someone else’s opinion – be it a man or anyone else in her life. She understands that if someone does not approve of her, it’s just one person’s opinion; therefore, it’s of no real importance. She doesn’t try to live up to anyone else’s standards – only her own. Because of this, she relates to a man very differently.” – Sherry Argov
“Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” – C.S. Lewis
“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.” – Anaïs Nin
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nothing ever really goes away–it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.” – Sarah Ockler
“I’m not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.” – C. JoyBell C.
“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, aw shit, he’s up!” – Steve Maraboli
“What’s the world’s greatest lie?… It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.” – Paulo Coelho
“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain
“Because paper has more patience than people.” – Anne Frank
“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.” – Gene Stratton-Porter
“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.” – Stephen Hawking
“She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.” – robert m drake
“If you don’t know who you truly are, you’ll never know what you really want.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“It’s never too late to change your life for the better. You don’t have to take huge steps to change your life. Making even the smallest changes to your daily routine can make a big difference to your life.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!” – C. JoyBell C.
“It is difficult to live in and enjoy the moment when you are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You cannot change your past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about your future. Learn from the past, plan for the future. The more you live in and enjoy the present moment, the happier you will be.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all the things that you want to buy and meet all the people that you want to meet and learn all the things that you desire to learn and if you do all these things but are not madly in love: you have still not begun to live.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to sleep through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won’t be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There’s something you can’t do unless you get there.” – Haruki Murakami
“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.” – Ludwig van Beethoven
“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.” – Ray Bradbury
“Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I figured something out. The future is unpredictable.” – John Green
“Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.” – Bob Marley
“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“We’ve all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don’t want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest. He clears his throat. I continually struggle with kindness.” – Veronica Roth
“If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.” – Paulo Coelho
“Live the Life of Your Dreams, When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.” – Rumi
“When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.” – Confucius
“The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet.” – Stephen King
“Wasn’t that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I’d thought.” – Kathryn Stockett
“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.” – Steve Maraboli
“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them…to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.” – Horton Foote
“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.” – Leo Buscaglia
“If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned, and of poor judgment, I will. And I would be damned if I cared what other people think. For I would rather be thought of as all of these things, than not love. If in loving, I become the naked woman on the horse, I will ride that horse with my head held high. This is my spirit. I am unbreakable.” – C. JoyBell C.
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.” – Vincent van Gogh
“You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it’s whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.” – J.K. Rowling
“Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.” – Bruce Lee
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.” – Ronald Reagan
“Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn’t what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You…Be Free…Share.” – Steve Maraboli
“You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don’t play at all. and if u don’t play u can’t win.” – Judith McNaught
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.” – Harlan Ellison
“When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.” – Roy T. Bennett
“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.” – J.K. Rowling
“Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows, with the ability to say no to oneself.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?” – George Eliot
“Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I am a flawed person. A brook with many stones, a clear blue sky with many blackbirds. I have many shortcomings. A rainbow that’s not long enough, a starry night with clouds. But I can only be thankful to the God who loves me just this way, and I can only be grateful to the people in my life who accept the clear blue sky with many blackbirds and who are patient with the rainbow that isn’t long enough. And because of this, I am taught love, because of this I love my God, and I love these people.” – C. JoyBell C.
“She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered ‘different.’ She did not suffer too much.” – Betty Smith
“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.” – Jason Mraz
“Don’t let others tell you what you can’t do. Don’t let the limitations of others limit your vision. If you can remove your self-doubt and believe in yourself, you can achieve what you never thought possible.” – Roy T. Bennett
“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.” – Roy T. Bennett
“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.” – Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“The best way to measure how much you’ve grown isn’t by inches or the number of laps you can now run around the track, or even your grade point average– though those things are important, to be sure. It’s what you’ve done with your time, how you’ve chosen to spend your days, and whom you’ve touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.” – R.J. Palacio
“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.” – Sherrilyn Kenyon
“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.” – Amit Ray
“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” – Maya Angelou
“To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.” – Taylor Swift
“Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.” – Roy T. Bennett
“It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.” – Edgar Allan Poe
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” – Lao Tzu
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.” – Santosh Kalwar
“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.” – Paulo Coelho
“And, in the end, The love you take, is equal to the love you make.” – Paul McCartney
“Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.” – Roy T. Bennett
“We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” – Wayne W. Dyer
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” – John F. Kennedy
“Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail…” – Sophie Kinsella
“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. … Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” – Bob Marley
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
“Hope, Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, , Whispering ‘it will be happier’…” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.” – Joss Whedon
“Oh the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.” – Dr. Seuss
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“I hate to say it, but shit really does happen. You just have to get over it. Beat the hell out of it by doing things that make you happy.” – J.A. Redmerski
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” – Dale Carnegie
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (…) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” – John Green
“You are in charge of your own happiness; you don’t need to wait for other people’s permission to be happy.” – Roy T. Bennett
“How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Some things cannot be taught; they must be experienced. You never learn the most valuable lessons in life until you go through your own journey.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The real heroes anyway aren’t the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.” – John Green
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda
“The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!” – Fernando Pessoa
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.” – Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai
“Not knowing you can’t do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.” – Ally Carter
“When in a relationship, a real man doesn’t make his woman jealous of others, he makes others jealous of his woman.” – Steve Maraboli
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.” – Viktor E. Frankl
“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.” – Romain Rolland
“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” – Anne Frank
“It is worse to stay where one does not belong at all than to wander about lost for a while and looking for the psychic and soulful kinship one requires” – Clarissa Pinkola Estés
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?” – Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.” – Fred Rogers
“He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” – Thomas Szasz
“An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind, for learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind, when it only wants to see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost, in the looking comes back completely changed.” – Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi
“You’re off to Great Places!, Today is your day!, Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss
“Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.” – Daisaku Ikeda
“Are you on our side…and want to be different, or are you on that side and want to throw a football at my head!?” – Gerard Way
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” – Marilyn Monroe

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” – Emily Dickinson
“I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.” – e.e. cummings
“Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.” – Roy T. Bennett
“You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.” – Roy T. Bennett
“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.” – Steve Maraboli
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!” – John Anster
“Seindah apa pun huruf terukir, dapatkah ia bermakna apabila tak ada jeda? Dapatkan ia dimengerti jika tak ada spasi? Bukankah kita baru bisa bergerak jika ada jarak? Dan saling menyayang bila ada ruang?” – dee
“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.” – Marcus Aurelius
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?” – Rumi
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” – Mary Shelley
“Whatever comes, she said, cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.” – Frances Hodgson Burnett
“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.” – Malcolm X
“It’s the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.” – Frank Warren
“Beliefs are choices. First you choose your beliefs. Then your beliefs affect your choices.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.” – George Orwell
“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” – Charlotte Bronte
“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” – Maya Angelou
“I didn’t come here of my own accord, and I can’t leave that way., Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.” – Rumi
“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.” – James Dean
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..” – Thoreau, Henry David
“Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.” – Beatrix Potter
“Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.” – Louisa May Alcott
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” – Steve Maraboli
“We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.” – George R.R. Martin
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Focus on your goals, not your fear. Focus like a laser beam on your goals.” – Roy T. Bennett
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time.” – Roy T. Bennett
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.” – Steve Maraboli
“In the end, these things matter most:, How well did you love?, How fully did you live?, How deeply did you let go?” – Jack Kornfield
“What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.” – Doris Lessing
“But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” – George Eliot
“Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.” – Rick Riordan
“Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.” – Carrie Hope Fletcher
“I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.” – Jason Mraz
“Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.” – Buddha Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni
“The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.” – Jodi Picoult
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
“The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that’s the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.” – Steven Moffat
“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.” – Napoleon Hill
“Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.” – Roy T. Bennett
“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.” – Mitch Albom
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner
“No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” – C. JoyBell C.
“We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.” – Paulo Coelho
“I read somewhere… how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong… to measure yourself at least once.” – Jon Krakauer
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” – Stephen King
“The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy…the girl came.” – Jonathan Antin
“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now…Come further up, come further in!” – C.S. Lewis
“I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” – Audrey Hepburn
“You only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like the tides. Only one man and all of this.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive, jealous, shallow, vain, boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.” – J.K. Rowling
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” – Oscar Wilde

“The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.” – Walt Whitman
“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won’t mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever…. connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” – Roy T. Bennett
“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.” – T.S. Eliot
“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Surround Yourself with Positive People Who Believe in Your Dreams, Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. , Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite independent of anyone.” – Anne Frank
“There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.” – J. K. Rowling
“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.” – Chad Sugg
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” – Dalai Lama XIV
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ” – Pablo Picasso
“Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“People say that eyes are windows to the soul.” – Khaled Hosseini
“Happiness depends on your mindset and attitude.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you’ve got.” – Benjamin Hoff
“Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” – Charles Darwin
“What would come, would come…and you would have to meet it, when it did.” – J.K. Rowling
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it – then I can achieve it.” – Muhammad Ali
“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.” – Victor Hugo
“Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.” – Mirza Tahir Ahmad
“It doesn’t matter what you do…so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away.” – Ray Bradbury
“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams” – R.J. Palacio
“The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Ask yourself these three questions, Tatiana Metanova, and you will know who you are. Ask: What do believe in? What do you hope for? What do you love?” – Paullina Simons
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

“Anger is like flowing water; there’s nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.” – C. JoyBell C.
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon…. If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.” – Gautama Buddha
“If you have a strong purpose in life, you don’t have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” – Louis L’Amour
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” – Maya Angelou
“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.” – Erin Morgenstern
“Though the road’s been rocky it sure feels good to me.” – Bob Marley
“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.” – Kazuo Ishiguro
“When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“We never know the quality of someone else’s life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.” – Tami Hoag
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.” – Michel de Montaigne
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” – Steve Maraboli
“Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.” – Rumi
“I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. ” – Oprah Winfrey
“So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and Â¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you’ll move mountains.” – Dr. Seuss
“See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it” – Jodi Picoult
“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
“Acts of Kindness:, A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else’s life.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.” – Voltaire
“What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else’s opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people’s opinions control you.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.” – Socrates
“Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas
“Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.” – Bob Ross
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and Hope.” – Alexandre Dumas
“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.” – T.S. Eliot
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
“And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn’t.” – Stephen Chbosky
“We’re here, and then we’re gone, and it’s not about the time we’re here, but what we do with the time.” – Rick Yancey
“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.” – George Carlin
“Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people.” – Roy T. Bennett
“You can’t live your life for other people. You’ve got to do what’s right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.” – Roy T. Bennett
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?” – Richard Dawkins
“Enjoy every step you take. If you’re curious, there is always something new to be discovered in the backdrop of your daily life.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.” – AnaIs Nin
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – Gerard Way
“The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more.” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“The truth knocks on the door and you say, Go away, I’m looking for the truth, and so it goes away. Puzzling.” – Robert M. Pirsig
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” – Oscar Wilde
“It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.” – Roy T. Bennett
“A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” – Lao Tzu
“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts – it gives you what you demand with your actions.” – Steve Maraboli
“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.” – Alphonse de Lamartine
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” – Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” – Muriel Rukeyser
“You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.” – Roy T. Bennett
“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.” – William Shakespeare
“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.” – Rumi
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” – ANAIS NIN
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde

“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” – Seneca
“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.” – Sarah Dessen
“It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.” – G.K. Chesterton
“Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. There is only now.” – Christopher Paolini
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” – Dr. Seuss

“I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway… let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.” – C. JoyBell C.
“In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.” – Albert Einstein
“When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.” – Fannie Flagg
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” – Sarah Dessen
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.” – Walter Scott
“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.” – Napoleon Hill
“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
“And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned.” – Dorothy Parker
“The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.” – C. JoyBell C.
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.” – Emily Dickinson
“Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You. Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say.” – Kahlil Gibran
“People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also….but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don’t EVER stop.” – Steve Maraboli
“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.” – William S. Burroughs
“When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It’s because a little piece gets lost – the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.” – John Green
“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.” – Steve Maraboli
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso
“You’ve got this life and while you’ve got it, you’d better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone’s hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people’s eyes like they’re the last you’ll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there’s no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake like it’s the only one left in the world!” – C. JoyBell C.
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” – Herbert Bayard Swope
“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.” – Samuel Beckett
“Never stop dreaming, , never stop believing, , never give up, , never stop trying, and , never stop learning.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” – J.M. Barrie
“My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.” – Joseph Conrad
“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.” – E.M. Forster
“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: Go down again – I dwell among the people.” – John Henry Newman
“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. I’ve seen it. It’s fascinating. He releases me but doesn’t pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. Sometimes I just…want to see it again. Want to see you awake.” – Veronica Roth
“Don’t be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.” – Dale Carnegie
“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather he will ask, How much love did you put into what you did?” – Mother Teresa
“Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.” – Roy T. Bennett
“When you look for a man- what you want to look for is a man with the heart of a poor boy and the mind of a conqueror.” – C. JoyBell C.
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” – Leo Tolstoy
“The past has no power over the present moment.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” – Roy T. Bennett
“A person’s a person, no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.” – Gustave Flaubert
“A fight is going on inside me, said an old man to his son. It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you. The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, Which wolf will win? , The old man replied simply, The one you feed.” – Wendy Mass
“Believe in Your Heart, Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.” – Roy T. Bennett
“First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.” – Ray Bradbury
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Jon Krakauer
“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.” – Albert Einstein
“Remember tonight… for it is the beginning of always” – Dante
“A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” – Max Lucado
“Do you know what you are?, You are a manuscript a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, , you are already that.” – Rumi
“LAW 4 , Always Say Less Than Necessary , When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.” – Robert Greene
“Dare to love yourself, as if you were a rainbow, with gold at both ends.” – Author-Poet Aberjhani
“If I must fall, may it be from a high place.” – Paulo Coelho
“The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.” – Roy T. Bennett
“No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.” – Walt Disney Company
“I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.” – Taylor Swift
“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” – C.S. Lewis
“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.” – Joni Eareckson Tada
“But what was there to say?, Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.” – Arundhati Roy
“Do not seek the because – in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.” – AnaIs Nin
“I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?” – Stephanie Lennox
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” – Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins
“Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching, and doing as you say you would do.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.” – Dan Brown
“To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.” – Charlie Chaplin
“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
“Good people see the good and bring out the best in other people.” – Roy T. Bennett
“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.” – Robert T. Kiyosaki
“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” – Joseph Campbell
“We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams. World-losers and world-forsakers, Upon whom the pale moon gleams; Yet we are the movers and shakers, Of the world forever, it seems.” – Arthur O’Shaughnessy
“If you have to dry the dishes , (Such an awful boring chore), If you have to dry the dishes, (Stead of going to the store), If you have to dry the dishes, And you drop one on the floor, Maybe they won’t let you, Dry the dishes anymore” – Shel Silverstein
“The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.” – Pittacus Lore
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
“Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy, Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.” – Jodi Picoult
“Somehow, we’ll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.” – Brandon Sanderson
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” – Anne Frank
“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you’re satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you’ve got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you’re trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!” – Dr. Seuss
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.” – Ray Bradbury
“It’s your life; you don’t need someone’s permission to live the life you want. Be brave to live from your heart.” – Roy T. Bennett
“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.” – Emma Goldman
“Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Focus on your character, not your reputation. Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.” – Roy T. Bennett
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.” – Rumi
“More smiling, less worrying. More compassion, less judgment. More blessed, less stressed. More love, less hate.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Never, ever, let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do. Prove the cynics wrong. Pity them for they have no imagination. The sky’s the limit. Your sky. Your limit. Now. Let’s dance.” – Tom Hiddleston
“Forget yesterday – it has already forgotten you. Don’t sweat tomorrow – you haven’t even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift – today.” – Steve Maraboli
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Keep Going, Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.” – Anne Lamott
“Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.” – Roy T. Bennett
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.” – Adrienne Rich
“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” – Arthur Conan Doyle
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – Neil Gaiman

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.” – Jim MORRISON
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?” – Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
“One mistake does not have to rule a person’s entire life.” – Joyce Meyer
“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” – Mitch Albom
“So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.” – Sabaa Tahir
“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.” – Roy T. Bennett
“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren
“Toni’s Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic…you! As soon as you let doubt creep in—you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.” – C.Toni Graham
“Don’t wait for things to happen. Make them happen.” – Roy T. Bennett
“What makes the desert beautiful, said the little prince, is that somewhere it hides a well…” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Great leaders create more leaders, not followers.” – Roy T. Bennett
“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.” – Hermann Hesse
“I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.” – J. Richard Lessor
“If you don’t have any shadows you’re not in the light” – Lady Gaga
“Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else’s. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else’s blessings instead of your own.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” – Mark Twain
“Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around.” – Roy T. Bennett
“I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.” – David Mitchell
“The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.” – Patrick Rothfuss
“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.” – C.S. Lewis
“These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside. They should direct their anger at themselves. For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.” – Yann Martel
“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas A. Edison
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” – Ovid
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” – Albert Einstein
“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” – Nora Roberts
“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.” – Laurence Sterne
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” – Steve Maraboli
“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.” – Peter S. Beagle
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli
“We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.” – Robert Frost
“If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you’ll never be able to dance.” – Iris Johansen
“We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.” – Winston S. Churchill
“You don’t have to like someone, but you have to treat them as you wish to be treated.” – Roy T. Bennett
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
“Smile more. Smiling can make you and others happy.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren’t looking for them.” – Morgan Matson
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.” – William Wilberforce
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” – Marcus Aurelius
“To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong.” – Roy T. Bennett
“A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it’s the most painful thing you’ll ever have to do and that you’ve ever done. But what’s yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it’ll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won’t have to put it back in the sky again.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” – L.M. Montgomery
“Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!” – J.K. Rowling
“Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people…but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.” – Steve Maraboli
“All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.” – Conan O’Brien
“Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.” – Roy T. Bennett
“It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun” – Charles Bukowski
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.” – John F. Kennedy
“Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners.” – Mitch Albom
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” – Steve Jobs
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” – Deepak Chopra
“I cannot compromise my respect for your love. You can keep your love, I will keep my respect.” – Amit Kalantri
“I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn’t make a mockery of your values.” – Bill Ayers
“We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.” – Tom Hiddleston
“If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll end up miserable.” – Brandon Sanderson
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” – John Milton
“I don’t fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you. Read it over. Again. Let those words resonate in your mind.” – Nayyirah Waheed
“Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you’ll land among the stars” – Cecelia Ahern
“Discipline Your Mind to Think Positively: Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” – Louis L’Amour
“I’m unpredictable, I never know where I’m going until I get there, I’m so random, I’m always growing, learning, changing, I’m never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.” – C. JoyBell C.
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
“A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.” – Maya Angelou
“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.” – Kurt Cobain
“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” – Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing can disturb your peace of mind unless you allow it to.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston S. Churchill

“E.L. Doctorow said once said that ‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ You don’t have to see where you’re going, you don’t have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.” – Anne Lamott
“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn’t have the time to sit around and talk about you. What’s important to me is not others’ opinions of me, but what’s important to me is my opinion of myself.” – C. JoyBell C.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” – Ronald Reagan
“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” – Moliere
“Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question– ‘Is this all?” – Betty Friedan
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.” – Buddha Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni
“Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.” – C. JoyBell C.
“I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.” – Stephen Chbosky
“Don’t wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.” – Roy T. Bennett
7 Effective Ways to Make Others Feel Important:
1. Use their name. 2. Express sincere gratitude. 3. Do more listening than talking. 4. Talk more about them than about you. 5. Be authentically interested. 6. Be sincere in your praise. 7. Show you care. – Roy T. Bennett
“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.” – Roald Dahl
“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.” – L.M. Montgomery
“Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to make sure those years are as full as they can be. We shouldn’t waste time on things that might happen someday, or maybe even never.” – Colleen Hoover
“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?” – che guevara
“Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.” – Roy T. Bennett