Quotes by Authors - Page 5120

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.
There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
Sophie Kinsella
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
why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out
Oliver James
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
When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?
Virginia Woolf
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
Simone de Beauvoir
Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.
William Goldman
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
I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
Nikos Kazantzakis
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
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
Simone de Beauvoir
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
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan
There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.
Dalai Lama XIV
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
I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seenOf meadow flowers and butterfliesIn summers that have beenOf yellow leaves and gossamerIn autumns that there wereWith morning mist and silver sunAnd wind upon my hairI sit beside the fire and thinkOf how the world will beWhen winter comes without a spring That I shall ever seeFor still there are so many thingsThat I have never seenIn every wood in every springThere is a different greenI sit beside the fire and thinkOf people long agoAnd people that will see a worldThat I shall never knowBut all the while I sit and thinkOf times there were beforeI listen for returning feet And voices at the door
J.R.R. Tolkien
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
The Bhagavad Gita--that ancient Indian Yogic text--says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
Elizabeth Gilbert
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
Stephen Fry
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.
Steve Maraboli
Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.
Roy T. Bennett
Believe in Your HeartBelieve in your heart that you're meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles.
Roy T. Bennett
Acts of Kindness:A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.
Roy T. Bennett
Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired. Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision. Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy. Trust, even when your heart begs you not to. Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see. Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring. Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.
Alysha Speer