Quotes by Authors - Page 5101

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.
Deepak Chopra
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Jim Rohn
You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.
Lisa Kleypas
Life is life. You choose to live it or you do not.
Carrie Ryan
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
IRVIN D.YALOM
The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it
Henri J.M. Nouwen
I realize that life is risks. It’s acknowledging the past but looking forward. It’s taking a chance that we willmake mistakes but believing that we all deserve to be forgiven.
Carrie Ryan
Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.
Shane L. Koyczan
Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.
Jim Butcher
That's not a bad word...hate and war are bad words, but fuck isn't.
Judy Blume
Stuff your eyes with wonder," he said, "live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake the tree and knock the great sloth down on his ass.
Ray Bradbury
..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.
Jasmine Warga
I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change
Karl Lagerfeld
For one day there will be nothing left, yet we will have something. -me-I tried to wait for my life to begin. Something has to happen. Like an amazing boy. I know he's out there. I just have to find him.
Susane Colasanti
Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.
Emily Giffin
Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
Steve Maraboli
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
Jack Kerouac
By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
Virginia Woolf
‎Today is a new day. It's a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the 'same crap, different day' lie! How many days has that lie stolen from you? Seize the wonder and uniqueness of today! Recognize that throughout this beautiful day, you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go.
Steve Maraboli
A little kid asks my dad why that man is chopping down the tree.Dad: He's not chopping it down. He's saving it. Those branches were long dead from disease. All plants are like that. By cutting off the damage you make it possible for the tree to grow again. You watch - by the end of summer, this tree will be the strongest on the block.
Laurie Halse Anderson
and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
Khaled Hosseini
Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being re-directed to something better.
Steve Maraboli
There are two ways to live a life either forget everything or, remember nothing.
Santosh Kalwar
Rule of life. If you bother to ask someone’s advice, then bother to listen to it.
Sophie Kinsella
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.
David Almond
You can't regret the life you didn't lead.
Junot Díaz
There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it. But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.
Eleanor Brown
Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.
Roy T. Bennett
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.
Rebecca Wells
She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.
Virginia Woolf
One of the best ways to influence people is to make those around you feel important.
Roy T. Bennett
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever
Germaine Greer
The only certainty life contains is death.
Patricia Briggs
I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?
C. JoyBell C.
Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost all touch, all instinct for the actual, the real; because at last I have cursed myself; because after my fantastic nights I have moments of returning sobriety, which are awful! Meanwhile, you hear the whirl and roar of the crowd in the vortex of life around you; you hear, you see, men living in reality; you see that life for them is not forbidden, that their life does not float away like a dream, like a vision; that their life is being eternally renewed, eternally youthful, and not one hour of it is the same as another; while fancy is so spiritless, monotonous to vulgarity and easily scared, the slave of shadows, of the idea, the slave of the first cloud that shrouds the sun... One feels that this inexhaustible fancy is weary at last and worn out with continual exercise, because one is growing into manhood, outgrowing one's old ideals: they are being shattered into fragments, into dust; if there is no other life one must build one up from the fragments. And meanwhile the soul longs and craves for something else! And in vain the dreamer rakes over his old dreams, as though seeking a spark among the embers, to fan them into flame, to warm his chilled heart by the rekindled fire, and to rouse up in it again all that was so sweet, that touched his heart, that set his blood boiling, drew tears from his eyes, and so luxuriously deceived him!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.
Sandy Brewer
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
Pearl S. Buck
it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.
Kathryn Stockett
When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
Patricia Briggs
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.
Harper Lee
There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.
Gena Showalter
It's amazing how quickly nature consumes human places after we turn our backs on them. Life is a hungry thing.
Scott Westerfeld
it takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeded.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Oh, for the years I have not lived, but only dreamed of living.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.
Roy T. Bennett
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith
Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you have got.
Santosh Kalwar
All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.
Morgan Matson
Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
Jim Butcher
Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
Lynsay Sands
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
Chuck Palahniuk
You are always a little bit wrong
Hank Green
For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion.
James Baldwin
You should read something else."Why would he have done that to him?"I don't know," she said.Do you ever feel like Job?"She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes.Sometimes."But you haven't lost your faith?"No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine.Is it because you think you might get better?"No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left.
Nicholas Sparks
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Og Mandino
Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.
Nicholas Sparks
Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.
Lisa Kleypas
Do you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you." And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' " Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72)
Nicholas Sparks