Quotes by American Authors - Page 3256

The majority of people have successfully alienated themselves from change; they tediously arrange their lives into a familiar pattern, they give themselves to normalcy, they are proud if they are able to follow in auspicious footsteps set before them, they take pride in always coloring inside the lines and they feel secure if they belong to a batch of others who are like them. Now, if familiar patterns bore you, if normalcy passes before you unnoticed, if you want to create your own footsteps in the earth and leave your own handprints on the skies, if you are the one who doesn't mind the lines in the coloring book as much as others do, and perchance you do not cling to a flock for you to identify with, then you must be ready for adversity. If you are something extraordinary, you are going to always shock others and while they go about existing in their mundaneness which they call success, you're going to be flying around crazy in their skies and that scares them. People are afraid of change, afraid of being different, afraid of doing things and thinking things that aren't a part of their checkerboard game of a life. They only know the pieces and the moves in their games, and that's it. You're always going to find them in the place that you think you're going to find them in, and every time they think about you, you're going to give them a heart attack.
C. JoyBell C.
But that was two years ago. She wasn’t sexy to me anymore. Now she was lethal.
Penelope Douglas
I swear, the best things come to me by accident! Or should I say, effortless destiny?
C. JoyBell C.
Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Dream big. Wake up. Take the first step into the unknown.
Roy T. Bennett
When you open your mind, you open new doors to new possibilities for yourself and new opportunities to help others.
Roy T. Bennett
I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn't feel sorry if other people don't have one.
C. JoyBell C.
Too many people are too busy making a living to make a life.
Roy T. Bennett
I tell people not to be afraid of their fears; because their fears are not there to scare them, they're there to let them know that something is worth it. Yet I am often afraid. I guess that means in my life, lots of things have been worth it!
C. JoyBell C.
Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.
Violet Haberdasher
Stop giving meaningless praise and start giving meaningful action.
Steve Maraboli
The problem about cutting out the best of your heart and giving it to people, is that 1. It hurts to do that; and 2. You never know if they are going to throw it away or not. But then you should still do it. Because any other way is cowardice. At the end of the day, it's about being brave and we are only haunted by the ghosts that we trap within ourselves; we are not haunted by the ghosts that we let out. We are haunted by the ghosts that we cover and hide. So you let those ghosts out in that best piece of your heart that you give to someone. And if the other person throws it away? Or doesn't want it to begin with? Someone else will come along one day, cut out from his/her heart that exact same jagged shape that you cut out of your own heart, and make their piece of heart fit into the rest of yours. Wait for that person. And you can fill their missing piece with your soul.
C. JoyBell C.
A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king.
C. JoyBell C.
I don't have a diary, I don't write things into a diary. I imprint myself into the sky and when the sunlight shines brightly, I can stand under the sun's rays and everything I have imprinted of myself into the sky, I will begin to see again, feel again, remember. And when the wind begins to blow, it blows the details over my face, and I remember everything I left in the sky and see new things being born. I am unwritten.
C. JoyBell C.
You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst...And I will definitely give you mine.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
How could you love us being together?" he asked me "We are nothing alike and we are not meant for each other and we drive each other crazy, you love that? How can you love that?" So I told him "I know that we're not meant for each other, that we drive each other crazy, and that we are so different. But that's us. That's what we have; a wild nonsense. We are not good together, but together we are bad for each other. I love us together this way just like this. Because even if it's no good, it's what we have! It's us.
C. JoyBell C.
It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!
C. JoyBell C.
What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol.
Amy Leigh Mercree
One of the biggest favors that you can do for yourself is to accept your loved ones for who they are, and not be constantly disappointed because they are not who you think they should be.
Jennifer O'Neill
Sometimes I wore smiles but didn’t feel them. Sometimes I felt them and didn’t wear them. I didn’t want her to know how much I craved this. I bit my bottom lip.
Penelope Douglas
The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You’re Crying Is So Brave.
Demi Lovato
Never lose hope, and if you can, find the courage to love again.
Danielle Steel
Kindness can transform someone's dark moment with a blaze of light. You'll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.
Jonathan Franzen
Nothing can be more hurtful to your heart than betraying yourself.
Roy T. Bennett
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
The only thing that will ever make me fall in love is: if I fall in love.
C. JoyBell C.
Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be "holy" the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive.
C. JoyBell C.
In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
Brandon Sanderson
What if you could pick one day of your life, and everything would stop changing, every day would be similar and comparable to that one day, you'd always have the same people with you? If you could do that, would you do it? Would you pick that day and make that choice? We crave for things to stop changing, we wish that things would never change. But if we got what we wanted, there are so many things that are better, that we would never, ever know about. Sure, things would stay the same as that one wonderful day, but then there would be nothing else out there, ever. So can you remember the very first day when everything really did begin to change? Is there a thing that can remind you? Mine is a blue rose, and that's when everything began to change because that's the day I began to believe in things I never believed in before; the day I found three blue roses. Think about your first day of change, can you remember all the new heights you've soared since that day? All the new people? All the better things and times? Would you throw all of that time away? I wouldn't. Instead, I want to finally accept all the things that I couldn't change, which led to me being right here, right now. Maybe we all carry around inside us one day we wish we could keep forever, something we wished never did change. It's time to let go of that day, and soar.
C. JoyBell C.
By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.
Charles L. Whitfield
When there are many worldsyou can choose the oneyou walk into each day.
Jacqueline Woodson
When I was in Piazza di Spagna, in Rome, I watched (along with others) how many locals came to drink water from the fountain there. The people beside me said to each other "Oh my goodness, how disgusting, people just drink water from anywhere," while the whole time, I was thinking "Oh my goodness, how wonderful, people can drink water from anywhere." We can be in the exact same place, looking at the exact same thing, but see that thing in a completely different way. You can go around the world, and go to all the beautiful places, but never be happy, because happiness is something that you bring inside of you, it is not where you are or what you are looking at, but it is how you are and how you look at.
C. JoyBell C.
Life is not compassionate towards victims. The trick is not to see yourself as one. It's never too late! I know I've felt like the victim in various situations in my life, but, it's never too late for me to realize that it's my responsibility to stand on victorious ground and know that whatever it is I'm experiencing or going through, those are just the clouds rolling by while I stand here on the top of this mountain! This mountain called Victory! The clouds will come and the clouds will go, but the truth is that I'm high up here on this mountaintop that reaches into the sky! I am a victor. I didn't climb up the mountain, I was born on top of it!
C. JoyBell C.
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
Dwight L. Moody
It is difficult to make the right choice if you fear choosing wrongly.
Roy T. Bennett
Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most.
Roy T. Bennett
It's hard not to feel happy when you make someone smile.
Roy T. Bennett
The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them.
Roy T. Bennett
Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people while they're still alive! That way, they can know that we're thinking about them! I always tell people when I'm thinking about them, or that I thought about them, or that I have been thinking about them and it almost always scares them away, but so what, I am practicing the art of life and if that is frightening to them then maybe they need to start living while they're still alive!
C. JoyBell C.
It is better to find your courage to make changes when you can choose to rather than being forced to. If you do not make change, change will make you.
Roy T. Bennett
The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others.
Roy T. Bennett
Your success and happiness lie in you.
Helen Keller
I believe in going with the flow. I don't believe in fighting against the flow. You ride on your river and you go with the tides and the flow. But it has to be your river, not someone else's. Everyone has their own river, and you don't need to swim,float,sail on their's, but you need to be in your own river and you need to go with it. And I don't believe in fighting the wind. You go and you fly with your wind. Let everyone else catch their own gusts of wind and let them fly with their own gusts of wind, and you go and you fly with yours.
C. JoyBell C.
Never limit your view of life by any past experience.
Ernest Holmes
Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.
Amy Leigh Mercree
A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.
Ann Brashares
...don’t judge your future based on others’ mistakes.
Rachel Vincent
Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own.
James Cameron
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
Aberjhani
The Futures Bright, Wear Your Sunglasses
Ian Somerhalder
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
I find no importance in showing others that I am happy; it's not important to me that they know or think that I am happy but what is important to me is that I am happy. I am interested in being happy, not in making others think or know that I am.
C. JoyBell C.
If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.
Wanda E. Brunstetter
You can see the whole entire world in the eyes of a person who knows how to simply stand there and take all of it into him but then you can look into the eyes of someone else and the whole entire world goes away and all that's left is you.
C. JoyBell C.
I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living.
Steven Spielberg
Believing in negative thoughts is the single greatest obstruction to success.
Charles F. Glassman
The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love.
Marianne Williamson
University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.
C. JoyBell C.