Quotes by American Authors - Page 3369

Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.
Wendelin Van Draanen
In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.
Fred Rogers
Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.
Sanaya Roman
In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy.
David Sheff
The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything.
Sarah Dessen
Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.
Ben Carson
Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.
Richard Bach
Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.
Robert M. Drake
Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.
Robert M. Drake
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown
Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
Patrick Rothfuss
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
Albert Einstein
Each of us is full of shit in our own special way. We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.
Lewis Black
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
Mitch Albom
if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.
JOHN C MAXWELL
You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together... then you'll hear the sound of your soul
Renee Carlino
When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
Nicholas Sparks
If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?
RuPaul
Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
Susanna Kaysen
Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper...
Demi Lovato
I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.
Sue Monk Kidd
The nights you fight best arewhen all the weapons are pointed at you,when all the voices hurl their insultswhile the dream is being strangled.The nights you fight best arewhen reason gets kicked in the gut,when the chariots of gloom encircle you.The nights you fight best arewhen the laughter of fools fills the air,when the kiss of death is mistaken for love.The nights you fight best arewhen the game is fixed,when the crowd screams for your blood.The nights you fight best areon a night like thisas you chase a thousand dark rats from your brain,as you rise up against the impossible,as you become a brother to the tender sister of joyand move on regardless.
Charles Bukowski
Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)
Bob Dylan
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.
Stephen King
I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.
Katie Kacvinsky
And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.
Jack Canfield
Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us.
Emery Allen
If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day,You have to go places quite out of the way,You have to go places no others can get to.You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.
Dr. Seuss
People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don't EVER stop!
Steve Maraboli
It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.
Lois Lowry
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To all that come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America... with hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world.
Walt Disney Company
being afraid to take chances is scarier than actually doing things that challenge you.
Simone Elkeles
I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith, and your honor—your strength, and your compassion. For today, I lead you to die. I will not ask you to welcome this event. I will not insult you by calling it well, or just, or even glorious. But I will say this.“Each moment you fight is a gift to those in this cavern. Each second we fight is a second longer that thousands of people can draw breath. Each stroke of the sword, each koloss felled, each breath earned is a victory! It is a person protected for a moment longer, a life extended, an enemy frustrated!”There was a brief pause. us!
Brandon Sanderson
Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.Who had nothing, who wanted everything.
Lana Del Rey
Great victory requires great risk.-Hera
Rick Riordan
Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person. It's not always easy, that's for sure. But it's right. And sometimes doing the right thing feels good, even if it does end up in a trip to the principal's office.
Simone Elkeles
The culture of women in the church today is crippled by some very pervasive lies. "To be spiritual is to be busy. To be spiritual is to be disciplined. To be spiritual is to be dutiful." No, to be spiritual is to be in Romance with God. The desire to be romanced lies deep in the heart of every women. It is for such that you were made. Are you ARE romanced, and ever will be.
John Eldredge
All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't.
Richard Feynman
I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate exactly what I felt to be the truth. No one was satisfied
Ralph Ellison
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
Bill Gates
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!
Jillian Michaels
The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.
Leo Buscaglia
Politeness is okay, but it gets old and boring. You want to attack life with a passion, not a politeness, you want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so passionate" you don't want people to think about you and remember you and say "she is so polite," because, who cares about polite?
C. JoyBell C.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.
Wendy Mass
To write is human, to edit is divine.
Stephen King
Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference
Gerard Way
Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Achievement has no color
Abraham Lincoln
Skies are crying,I am watching,Catching teardrops in my hands.Only silence, as it's ending,Like we never had a chance.Do you have to make me feelLike there's nothing left of me?
Demi Lovato
The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for it. Columbus and America. Pinzon, who stumbled on Brazil while looking for the West Indies. Stanley happening on Victoria Falls. And you. Amy Curry, when I was least expecting her.-Roger Sullivan
Morgan Matson
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.
Leo Buscaglia