Quotes by American Authors - Page 3405

How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.
Steve Maraboli
I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.
Roy T. Bennett
And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.
Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.
Gerard Way
Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.
Betty Smith
Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
Henry Miller
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Randy Pausch
No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.
Veronica Roth
Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful.
Roy T. Bennett
The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.
Roy T. Bennett
Stop comparing yourself to other people, just choose to be happy and live your own life.
Roy T. Bennett
You are not rich until you have a rich heart.
Roy T. Bennett
Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.
Roy T. Bennett
Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.
Roy T. Bennett
Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.
Roy T. Bennett
Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me... I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, to forget. It wasn't something that was broken. It's just...something that happened. And like that hole, I'm just finding ways, every day, of working around it. Respecting and remembering and getting on at the same time.
Sarah Dessen
A star falls from the sky and into your hands. Then it seeps through your veins and swims inside your blood and becomes every part of you. And then you have to put it back into the sky. And it's the most painful thing you'll ever have to do and that you've ever done. But what's yours is yours. Whether it’s up in the sky or here in your hands. And one day, it'll fall from the sky and hit you in the head real hard and that time, you won't have to put it back in the sky again.
C. JoyBell C.
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?
Mary Manin Morrissey
No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride...and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well...maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion: Tune in, freak out, get beaten.
Hunter S. Thompson
Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.
Roy T. Bennett
Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Chuck Palahniuk
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
John Irving
I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.
Lauren Myracle
Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.
Roy T. Bennett
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
Roy T. Bennett
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
George Saunders
Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder
Stephenie Meyer
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Roy T. Bennett
After all, tomorrow is another day!
Margaret Mitchell
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.
Kami Garcia
It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
Roy T. Bennett
Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.
Roy T. Bennett
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.
Hunter S. Thompson
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn
Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.
C. JoyBell C.
Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you.
Roy T. Bennett
Respect other people's feelings. It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.
Roy T. Bennett
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison
My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
Judy Blume
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan
Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.
Roy T. Bennett
Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.
Roy T. Bennett
Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
Roy T. Bennett
No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.
Roy T. Bennett
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.
Roy T. Bennett
Live the Life of Your Dreams: Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
Roy T. Bennett
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
Lemony Snicket
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
Alice Hoffman
What makes big boobs and perkiness so attractive to boys? I mean, really. Two round, mounds of fat and a fake smile. Yeah, winning attributes.
Gena Showalter
Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.
Katharine Weber
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
Mae West
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
George R.R. Martin