Quotes by Authors - Page 5109

Girls get screwed.Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feelcheap for doingexactly what they beg for.The way they get to play you, all the while claiming they love you and making you believe it's true.The way it's okay to gift their heart one day, a backhand the next, to move on to the apricotwhen the peach blushes and bruises.These things make me believe God's a man after all.
Ellen Hopkins
There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit.
Steve Maraboli
After you're gone, people will forget your name, no matter how important it was, and your face, no matter how pretty it was, and what you said, no matter how clever any of it sounded.The things you've done will crumble and fade and the places you once loved, will change and be given new names.You are only here for one moment and it lasts exactly one lifetime.
pleasefindthis
It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.
Mitch Albom
This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.
George Orwell
It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
Henry David Thoreau
I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.
Rainbow Rowell
Never lose faith in yourself, and never lose hope; remember, even when this world throws its worst and then turns its back, there is still always hope.
Pittacus Lore
She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.
Cecelia Ahern
This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.
C. JoyBell C.
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.
Anne Lamott
[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.
Lev Grossman
One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.
J.A. Konrath
Dreams are necessary to life.
Anaïs Nin
Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new.
Roy T. Bennett
As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
Haruki Murakami
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.
Lois Lowry
I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.
Morgan Matson
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.
Haruki Murakami
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
Ian McEwan
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert Camus
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
Jeannette Walls
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
Eric Berne
L'éternité, c'est long ... surtout vers la fin.
Franz Kafka
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.
Chuck Palahniuk
Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
Jack Kerouac
I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.
Nicholas Sparks
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
Shannon L. Alder
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
Cormac McCarthy
Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now.
Roy T. Bennett
To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.
Roy T. Bennett
Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.
Roy T. Bennett
Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
James J. Lachard
People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you.
C. JoyBell C.
When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.
Roy T. Bennett
Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!
Steve Maraboli
You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
Chuck Palahniuk
We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
Jimmy Carter
Beauty is a whore, I like money better.
Michael Cunningham
Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.
Laura Hillenbrand
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.
Brian Tracy
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.
Criss Jami
It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.
Nicholas Sparks
Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.
Steve Maraboli
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
George Eliot
The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.
Steve Maraboli
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
Arundhati Roy
When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
Ann Brashares
I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life.
Melody Beattie
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)]
Stephen Hawking
In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
Mitch Albom
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go.
Randall Munroe
We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
Lana Del Rey
Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?
Jennifer E. Smith
You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
Mitch Albom
I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street
Stephen Hawking
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
Mark Twain