Quotes by American Authors - Page 3374

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.
Libba Bray
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
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
Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.
Sarah Ockler
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 Company
The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.
Dan Brown
Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make it happen yourself.
Rick Riordan
It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.
Steve Maraboli
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
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real.
Tupac Shakur
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
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
Theodore Parker
Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
Rick Riordan
What would you do if you weren't afraid?
Sheryl Sandberg
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson
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
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
If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.
Joss Whedon
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
Henry David Thoreau
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
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
And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.
Dorothy Parker
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 dishesAnd you drop one on the floorMaybe they won't let youDry the dishes anymore
Shel Silverstein
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.
Ellen DeGeneres
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
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.
Thomas A. Edison
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
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi Jr.
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Maya Angelou
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this - you haven't.
Thomas A. Edison
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne W. Dyer
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Steve Jobs
Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.
Jodi Picoult
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
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
I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.
C. JoyBell C.
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
The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.
Pittacus Lore
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
Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.
Richelle Mead
...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
Wendelin Van Draanen
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
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 way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!
Dolly Parton
Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
So tonight I reach for my journal again. This is the first time I’ve done this since I came to Italy. What I write in my journal is that I am weak and full of fear. I explain that Depression and Loneliness have shown up, and I’m scared they will never leave. I say that I don’t want to take the drugs anymore, but I’m frightened I will have to. I am terrified that I will never really pull my life together. tIn response, somewhere from within me, rises a now-familiar presence, offering me all the certainties I have always wished another person would say to me when I was troubled. This is what I find myself writing on the page:I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long. I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and Braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me. Tonight, this strange interior gesture of friendship—the lending of a hand fromme to myself when nobody else is around to offer solace—reminds me of something that happened to me once in New York City. I walked into an office building one afternoon in a hurry, dashed into the waiting elevator. As I rushed in, I caught an unexpected glance of myself in a security mirror’s reflection. In that moment, my brain did an odd thing—it fired off this split-second message: “Hey! You know her! That’s a friend of yours!” And I actually ran forward toward my own reflection with a smile, ready to welcome that girl whose name I had lost but whose face was so familiar. In a flash instant of course, I realized my mistake and laughed in embarrassment at my almost doglike confusion over how a mirror works. But for some reason that incident comes to mind again tonight during my sadness in Rome, and I find myself writing this comforting reminder at the bottom of the page. Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a FRIEND…tI fell asleep holding my notebook pressed against my chest, open to this most recent assurance. In the morning when I wake up, I can still smell a faint trace of depression’s lingering smoke, but he himself is nowhere to be seen. Somewhere during the night, he got up and left. And his buddy loneliness beat it, too.
Elizabeth Gilbert
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau
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
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
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
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
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
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
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.
Muhammad Ali
I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
Mark Twain
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
Elizabeth Gilbert
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun
Charles Bukowski
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