Quotes by American Authors - Page 3388

Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.
Harper Lee
God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.
Carrie Underwood
I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out.I don't want it to win.
Jasmine Warga
There is nothing perfect...only life.
Sue Monk Kidd
There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
Audre Lorde
The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.
Rob Sheffield
We don’t truly appreciate what we have until it’s gone… We don’t really appreciate something until we have experienced some events; we don't really appreciate our parents until we ourselves have become parents. Be grateful for what you have now, and nothing should be taken for granted.
Roy T. Bennett
Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah
David Levithan
Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.
Willa Cather
Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
Becca Fitzpatrick
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning:The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest.The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
Walker Percy
I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
John Green
In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
Vic Johnson
Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.
Jim Butcher
This is the strangest life I have ever known.
Jim Morrison
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
Deepak Chopra
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Jim Rohn
You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.
Lisa Kleypas
Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not.
Carrie Ryan
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
IRVIN D.YALOM
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
Henri J.M. Nouwen
I realize that life is risks. It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward. It’s taking a chance that we willmake mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.
Carrie Ryan
Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
Albert Einstein
Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.
Jim Butcher
That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.
Judy Blume
Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.
Ray Bradbury
You have every right to a beautiful life.
Selena Gómez
..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.
Jasmine Warga
For one day there will be nothing left, yet we will have something. -me-I tried to wait for my life to begin. Something has to happen. Like an amazing boy. I know he's out there. I just have to find him.
Susane Colasanti
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
Emily Giffin
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
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
Jack Kerouac
‎Today is a new day. It's a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the 'same crap, different day' lie! How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today! Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.
Steve Maraboli
A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree.Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.
Laurie Halse Anderson
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
Khaled Hosseini
Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
Steve Maraboli
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
You can't regret the life you didn't lead.
Junot Díaz
There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.
Eleanor Brown
Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.
Roy T. Bennett
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.
Rebecca Wells
One of the best ways to influence people is to make those around you feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
The only certainty life contains is death.
Patricia Briggs
I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?
C. JoyBell C.
No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.
Sandy Brewer
Decide what you want to be....Pay the Price ...And be what you want to be.
John A. Widtsoe
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck
it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.
Kathryn Stockett
When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
Patricia Briggs
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
Harper Lee
There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.
Gena Showalter
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Scott Westerfeld
it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.
Roy T. Bennett
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith
All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.
Morgan Matson
Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
Jim Butcher
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
Chuck Palahniuk