Quotes by American Authors - Page 3401

You don’t have to like someone, but you have to treat them as you wish to be treated.
Roy T. Bennett
Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.
Roy T. Bennett
Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, and doing as you say you would do.
Roy T. Bennett
Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.
Roy T. Bennett
Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?"I raise my eyebrows.She raises hers, too, mimicking me."The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around.
Veronica Roth
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
Madeleine L'Engle
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
Each affects the other, and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
Mitch Albom
Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else's. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.
Roy T. Bennett
It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.
J.D. Salinger
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run.
Sarah Dessen
There's gon' be some stuff you gon' seethat's gon' make it hard to smile in the future.But through whatever you see,through all the rain and the pain,you gotta keep your sense of humor.You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit.Remember that.
Tupac Shakur
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.
Joseph Campbell
I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.
Shauna Niequist
Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without itTo do a dangerous thing with style is what I call artBullfighting can be an artBoxing can be an artLoving can be an artOpening a can of sardines can be an artNot many have styleNot many can keep styleI have seen dogs with more style than men,although not many dogs have style.Cats have it with abundance.When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,that was style.Or sometimes people give you styleJoan of Arc had styleJohn the BaptistJesusSocratesCaesarGarcía Lorca.I have met men in jail with style.I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water,or you, naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.
Charles Bukowski
I would rather be ashes than dust!I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.The function of man is to live, not to exist.I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.I shall use my time.
Jack London
Is this thing safe?""Safe as life," Gansey replied.
Maggie Stiefvater
When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.
Roy T. Bennett
Focus on your goals, not your fear. Focus like a laser beam on your goals.
Roy T. Bennett
Discipline Your Mind to Think Positively: Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event.
Roy T. Bennett
It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.
Roy T. Bennett
You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.
Sarah Dessen
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 not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.
Matthew Quick
The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be. And that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up.
Patrick Rothfuss
When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
Bill Watterson
But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
Emily Giffin
Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.
Will Rogers
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.
John Green
A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.
John Grogan
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.", 2005]
Steve Jobs
There were five others before they got to him. He smiled a little when his turn came. His voice was low, smoky, and dead sexy. “My name is Augustus Waters,” he said. “I’m seventeen. I had a little touch of osteosarcoma a year and a half ago, but I’m just here today at Isaac’s request.”“And how are you feeling?” asked Patrick.“Oh, I’m grand.” Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. “I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.
John Green
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
Yoko Ono
There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...
Mitch Albom
In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
Gordon B. Hinckley
It takes sunshine and rain to make a rainbow. There would be no rainbows without sunshine and rain.
Roy T. Bennett
Learning to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to achieve inner peace.
Roy T. Bennett
Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.
Roy T. Bennett
A smart person knows how to talk. A wise person knows when to be silent.
Roy T. Bennett
You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.
Roy T. Bennett
Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.
Steve Maraboli
Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey
The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.
Roy T. Bennett
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather
When things go wrong, don't go with them.
Elvis Presley
It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!
Robert T. Kiyosaki
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
Vladimir Nabokov
Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.
Johnny Depp
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
Jack Kerouac
For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S Eliot
This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.
Alan W. Watts
It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
Charles Bukowski
People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
Khaled Hosseini
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
Henry Rollins
But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
Gloria Naylor
Dreams don't work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them.
Roy T. Bennett
I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Who are you?Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?I have. I am fucking crazy.But I am free.
Lana Del Rey
I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.
C. JoyBell C.