Quotes by Authors - Page 5119

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
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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
Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.
L.M. Montgomery
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Søren Kierkegaard
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.
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
I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them
Mark Haddon
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
Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.
Roy T. Bennett
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wiseIf you can dream - and not make dreams your master;If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out toolsIf you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
Rudyard Kipling
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
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Leo Tolstoy
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
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
Saul Bellow
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
There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
J.K. Rowling
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
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
Neil Gaiman
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
Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Haruki Murakami
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