Quotes by American Authors - Page 3395

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
John Steinbeck
What if I mess up?""Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one thing you have to do for me.""What's that?""Stay alive long enough to mess up again.
Victoria Schwab
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..
John Green
Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.
C. JoyBell C.
If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.
Roy T. Bennett
That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.
Leila Sales
Girls get screwed.Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feelcheap for doingexactly what they beg for.The way they get to play you, all the while claiming they love you and making you believe it's true.The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricotwhen the peach blushes and bruises.These things make me believe God's a man after all.
Ellen Hopkins
There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit.
Steve Maraboli
It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
Mitch Albom
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
Henry David Thoreau
I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.
Rainbow Rowell
Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.
Pittacus Lore
This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.
C. JoyBell C.
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.
Anne Lamott
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
Eric Roth
[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.
Lev Grossman
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
Anne Sexton
One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.
J.A. Konrath
Dreams are necessary to life.
Anaïs Nin
Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new.
Roy T. Bennett
I don’t chase after anyone, If you wanna walk out of my life, then I’ll hold the fucking door open for you.
Wiz Khalifa
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
Lois Lowry
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
John Irving
I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.
Morgan Matson
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
Jeannette Walls
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
Jason Mraz
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
Chuck Palahniuk
Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
Jack Kerouac
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
Nicholas Sparks
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
Shannon L. Alder
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
Cormac McCarthy
Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.
Roy T. Bennett
To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.
Roy T. Bennett
Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.
Roy T. Bennett
Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
James J. Lachard
People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you.
C. JoyBell C.
When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.
Roy T. Bennett
Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!
Steve Maraboli
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
Chuck Palahniuk
We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
Jimmy Carter
Beauty is a whore, I like money better.
Michael Cunningham
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
Laura Hillenbrand
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.
Brian Tracy
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.
Criss Jami
It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
Nicholas Sparks
Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.
Steve Maraboli
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
Steve Maraboli
When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
Ann Brashares
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
Melody Beattie
In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
Mitch Albom
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.
Randall Munroe
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)
George R.R. Martin
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
Lana Del Rey
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
Jennifer E. Smith
You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
Mitch Albom