Quotes by American Authors - Page 3397

Change course, but don’t give up.
Roy T. Bennett
Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.
Lana Del Rey
I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.
Kahlil Gibran
I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.
Marie Lu
We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves.
Ashly Lorenzana
What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.
Jennifer Niven
Jamie: You know what I figured out today?Landon: What?Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.
Nicholas Sparks
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
Lance Armstrong
Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.
Nikki Sixx
It's important in life if you don't give a shit. It can help you a lot.
George Carlin
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.
IRVIN D.YALOM
It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.
Anne Lamott
It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.
Steve Maraboli
I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
Audrey Niffenegger
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Stephen Jay Gould
When you make a choice, you change the future.
Deepak Chopra
The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.
Steve Maraboli
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Einstein
I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.
Henry Rollins
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Charles Addams
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
James Baldwin
Wisdom is having things right in your lifeand knowing why.
William Stafford
All knowledge is worth having.
Jacqueline Carey
Every choice comes with a consequence. Once you make a choice, you must accept responsibility. You cannot escape the consequences of your choices, whether you like them or not.
Roy T. Bennett
Difficulties and adversities viciously force all their might on us and cause us to fall apart, but they are necessary elements of individual growth and reveal our true potential. We have got to endure and overcome them, and move forward. Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.
Roy T. Bennett
How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.
Roy T. Bennett
You were not born on earth to please anyone; you have to live life to express yourself, not to impress someone. Don't pretend to be someone you're not, and never lose yourself in search of other people's acceptance and approval.
Roy T. Bennett
Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself.
Roy T. Bennett
Consistency is the true foundation of trust. Either keep your promises or do not make them.
Roy T. Bennett
Life is problems. Living is solving problems.
Raymond E. Feist
Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
John Green
People rarely bring flowers to a suicide.
Jennifer Niven
Me: “I refuse to attend Support Group.”Mom: “One of the symptoms of depression is disinterest in activities.”Me: “Please just let me watch America’s Next Top Model. It’s an activity.”Mom: “Television is a passivity.”Me: “Ugh, Mom, please.”Mom: “Hazel, you’re a teenager. You’re not a little kid anymore. You need to make friends, get out of the house, and live your life.”Me: “If you want me to be a teenager, don’t send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot.”Mom: “You don’t take pot, for starters.”Me: “See, that’s the kind of thing I’d know if you got me a fake ID.”Mom: “You’re going to Support Group.”Me: “UGGGGGGGGGGGGG.”Mom: “Hazel, you deserve a life.
John Green
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
Walker Percy
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Joseph Campbell
I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.
Raymond Carver
Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.
Rachel Vincent
This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!
Steve Maraboli
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen
What do you most value in your friends?Their continued existence.
Christopher Hitchens
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill
Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.
Ned Vizzini
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.
Roy T. Bennett
Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
Albert Einstein
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so?There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.
Drew Carey
If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.
Mandy Hale
Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.
Turcois Ominek
Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.
Robyn Schneider
I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.
Louis Sachar
Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in your life in place. Maybe it was about stringing together a bunch of small pleasures. Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. Getting to level seven in Dragon Master and knowing there were twenty more levels to go. Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day. maybe it didn't matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn't matter if your friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.
Ann Brashares
The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.
Sarah Dessen
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
Sylvia Plath
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow—to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested . . . Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.
Hunter S. Thompson
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
Mary Tyler Moore
Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.
Patricia McCormick
In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.
Jeffrey Eugenides