Quotes by American Authors - Page 3404

To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.
Roy T. Bennett
Perfectionism is the enemy of happiness. Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier. We make mistakes because we are imperfect. Learn from your mistakes, forgive yourself, and keep moving forward.
Roy T. Bennett
The strongest people find the courage and caring to help others, even if they are going through their own storm.
Roy T. Bennett
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don’t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don’t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what’s behind the words.
Roy T. Bennett
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Henry Rollins
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
Benjamin Franklin
It's not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.
Mae West
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller
If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it.
Roy T. Bennett
Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.
Roy T. Bennett
Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.
Roy T. Bennett
Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.
Roy T. Bennett
I'd like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, Ron, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty. And so, Ron, in short, get out of Salton City and hit the Road. I guarantee you will be very glad you did. But I fear that you will ignore my advice. You think that I am stubborn, but you are even more stubborn than me. You had a wonderful chance on your drive back to see one of the greatest sights on earth, the Grand Canyon, something every American should see at least once in his life. But for some reason incomprehensible to me you wanted nothing but to bolt for home as quickly as possible, right back to the same situation which you see day after day after day. I fear you will follow this same inclination in the future and thus fail to discover all the wonderful things that God has placed around us to discover. Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon. You are still going to live a long time, Ron, and it would be a shame if you did not take the opportunity to revolutionize your life and move into an entirely new realm of experience.You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.My point is that you do not need me or anyone else around to bring this new kind of light in your life. It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it. The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.
Jon Krakauer
That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.
Suzanne Collins
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.
Steve Maraboli
Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.
Roy T. Bennett
Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.
Roy T. Bennett
Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.
Roy T. Bennett
Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.
Roy T. Bennett
To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.
Roy T. Bennett
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
Ruth Reichl
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?
Diane Duane
Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You're aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can't be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn't be.
C. JoyBell C.
One ChoiceOne Choice, decided your friends.One Choice, defines your beliefs.One Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever.ONCE CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU
Veronica Roth
Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.
Roy T. Bennett
Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.
Roy T. Bennett
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
John Steinbeck
I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!
C. JoyBell C.
Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.
John Burroughs
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.
Bill Bryson
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody Allen
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
T.S Eliot
Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.Focus on your character, not your reputation.Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes.
Roy T. Bennett
Do Not Lie to Yourself We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.
Roy T. Bennett
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
Roy T. Bennett
Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.
Roy T. Bennett
You cannot control the behavior of others, but you can always choose how you respond to it.
Roy T. Bennett
When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.
Roy T. Bennett
Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.
Roy T. Bennett
Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.
Roy T. Bennett
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest Hemingway
Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.
Roy T. Bennett
I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
Andrew Solomon
Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Roy T. Bennett
The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.
C. JoyBell C.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs
Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.
Roy T. Bennett
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.
C. JoyBell C.
That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!
Connie Willis
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.
Dale Carnegie
A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Jack Kerouac
Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.
Roy T. Bennett
Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up.
Roy T. Bennett
Surround Yourself with People Who Believe in Your Dreams:Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
Roy T. Bennett
Do not set aside your happiness. Do not wait to be happy in the future. The best time to be happy is always now.
Roy T. Bennett
Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.
Roy T. Bennett
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
H.P. Lovecraft
The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
Saul Bellow