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Most Eligible Billionaire - Annika Martin - Goodreads Book Review

2020-11-15T09:54:00.001-05:00

Most Eligible Billionaire by Annika Martin
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Okay.
The story is not as captivating as Annika Martin's other books.
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Goodreads Book Review

2020-11-15T09:00:00.001-05:00

Return Billionaire to Sender by Annika Martin
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Loved this romantic comedy.
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Mental Health Day Quotes

2020-10-10T07:56:00.001-04:00

“Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.”

Lemony Snicket

“One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.”

Linda Poindexter

“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”

Mark Twain

“Sometimes self care is exercise and eating right. Sometimes it’s spending time with loved ones or taking a nap. And sometimes it’s watching an entire season of TV in one weekend while you lounge around in your pajamas. Whatever soothes your soul.”

Nanea Hoffman

“There is hope, even when your brain tells you there isn’t.”

John Green

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” — Albus Dumbledore from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in”

Leonard Cohen

“Increasing the strength of our minds is the only way to reduce the difficulty of life.”

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Funniest Quotes #hilarious #humor #jokes

2020-08-31T13:33:00.001-04:00

Funniest Quotes

#hilarious #humor #jokes

“Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.”

― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”

― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.”

― Markus Herz

“Aging is a matter of mind. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

― Anonymous

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”

― C.E.M. Joad

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.”

― Rita Mae Brown

“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”

― Douglas Adams

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.”

― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

― Jerome K. Jerome

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

― Laurence J. Peter

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”

― Bertrand Russell

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”

― George Burns

“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”

― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”

― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.”

― Mark Twain

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

― George Carlin

“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.”

― George Carlin

“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”

― Terry Pratchett

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”

― Charles M. Schulz

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”

― Dorothy Parker

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”

― Orson Welles

“It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.”

― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”

― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

― Groucho Marx

“If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!”

― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

“People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.”

― Christopher Paolini, Eragon

“A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”

― Mark Twain

“I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”

― Charles Schultz

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”

― Amanda Cross

“It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever," he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?”

― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.”

― Mark Twain

“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.”

― Pseudonymous Bosch, The Name of This Book Is Secret

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

― Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”

― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.”

― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!”

― Mark Twain

“In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. ”

― Fran Lebowitz

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

― Paul McCartney

Quotes by Rumi to Inspire You And Give You Positive Outlook On Life

2020-08-29T01:35:00.000-04:00

Quotes by Rumi To Inspire You And Give You Positive Outlook On Life

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal.

Rumi

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

Rumi

I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.

― Rumi

“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”

― Rumi

“The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.”

― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon;
How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”

― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?”

― Rumi

“This world
hurts
my head
with its answers.
I would burn if I had a choice.”

― Rumi

“Every contraction is naturally followed by an expansion;
every time you feel your heart shrivel
be confident that it will blossom in turn.”

― Rumi, Day By Day

“I am another you, you are another me.”

― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“You are not a drop in a ocean
You are entire ocean in a drop”

― Rumi

“Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World.”

― Jalaluddin Rumi

“You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin”

― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

Motivational Quotes on Success by Quotes and Quotes Blog

2020-08-04T03:38:00.003-04:00

Motivational Quotes On Success By Quotes And Quotes Blog

Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success.

Sting

“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”

― Herbert Bayard Swope

Motivational quote on success by Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”

― Albert Einstein

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”

― Herman Melville

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

― Truman Capote

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”

― Bette Midler

“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”

― Hayley Williams

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

― Leonardo da Vinci

“A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

― Robert F. Kennedy

“If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.”

― Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

― Winston S. Churchill

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice

“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”

― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.”

― J.M. Barrie

“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.”

― Vince Lombardi

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.”

― Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

― George Bernard Shaw

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”

― Jason Mraz

“The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”

― Stephen Richards, Cosmic Ordering: You can be successful

“If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.”

― Dr Roopleen

“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”

― Roy T. Bennett

“I've had great success being a total idiot. ”

― Jerry Lewis

“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”

― Dale Carnegie

“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”

― John Wooden

“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”

― Bernard Branson

“The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

― Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery: An Autobiography

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

― Woody Allen

“Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.”

― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”

― Joyce Brothers

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.”

― Ben Carson, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”

― Stephen Richards

“If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn't anything you can't do if you want to.”

― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement — that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.”

― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”

― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

― Dale Carnegie

“If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.”

― Steven Wright

“Fortune sides with him who dares.”

― Virgil

“To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great.”

― HEGEL

“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, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”

― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

“I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably
become as ordinary as they expect you to be.”

― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

“To be successful you need friends and to be very successful you need enemies.”

― Sidney Sheldon, The Other Side of Midnight

“Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”

― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”

― Flannery O'Connor

“Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.”

― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”

― Dr Roopleen, Words to inspire the winner in YOU

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.”

― Suzy Kassem

“Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”

― Robert Strauss

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”

― Elbert Hubbard

“Failure is constructive feedback that tells you to try a different approach to accomplish what you want.”

― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.”

― Deepak Chopra

“The money you make is a symbol of the value you create.”

― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“At the end, someone or something always gives up. It is either you give up and quit or the obstacle or failure gives up and makes way for your success to come through.”

― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.”

― Bobbe Sommer

“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

“Our way of thinking creates good or bad outcomes.”
― Stephen Richards

“Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and ablities were used in a way that served others.”
― Marianne Williamson

“Vision without execution is just hallucination.”
― Henry Ford

“Success is...
knowing your purpose in life,
growing to reach your maximum potential, and
sowing seeds that benefit others.”
― John C. Maxwell

“The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.”
― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.”
― Reba McEntire

“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
― George S. Patton Jr.

“The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.”
― Salvador Dali

“It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.”
― Douglas Pagels

“Success is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you procrastinate, you lose that day's success.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Life always begins with one step outside of your comfort zone.”

― Shannon L. Alder

“The level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”

― Niccolo Machiavelli

“Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.”

― Zig Ziglar, Raising Positive Kids in a Negative World

101 Amazing Inspirational Quotes and Sayings

2020-07-30T12:35:00.000-04:00

101 Amazing Inspirational Quotes And Sayings

“It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.”
― Frank Warren

“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”

― Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”

― Charlotte Brontë, The Letters of Charlotte Brontë

“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.”

― Leo Buscaglia

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

― Albert Einstein

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”

― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

― Ovid

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

― Victor Hugo

“So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”

― Mildred D. Taylor, The Land

“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.”

― Sam Levenson

“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”

― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Being brave is when you have to do something because you know it is right, but at the same time, you are afraid to do it, because it might hurt or whatever. But you do it anyway.”

― Meg Cabot, All-American Girl

“You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”

― Alice Sebold

“In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.”

― Ally Condie, Crossed

“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.”

― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.”

― Vincent Van Gogh

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

― Vincent van Gogh

“Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”

― Bill Watterson

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”

― Mary Shelley

“Focus on your goals, not your fear.
Focus like a laser beam on your goals.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.”

― Tupac Shakur

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”

― William Wilberforce

“Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.”

― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”

― Nicholas Klein

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

― Abraham Lincoln

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.”

― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”

― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

“A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.”

― Leonardo da Vinci

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

“Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

― Leonardo da Vinci

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”

― Voltaire

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”

― Will Rogers

“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”

― Bette Midler

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”

― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

― George Eliot

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”

― John Anster, The First Part of Goethe's Faust

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”

― Nora Roberts

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”

― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“the time is always right to do the right thing”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

Positive and Inspirational Sayings and Quotes

2020-07-19T03:24:00.003-04:00

Positive and Inspirational Sayings and Quotes

“I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

― T.S. Eliot

“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”

― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

― Thomas A. Edison

“Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”

― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

― Walt Disney Company

“Everyone you meet is a part of your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay in your life. Some people are just passing through to bring you gifts; either they're blessings or lessons.”

― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”

― Dr. Seuss

“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”

― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.”

― Carlos Castaneda

“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”

― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

― William Faulkner

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”

― Rumi

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.”

― David Nicholls, One Day

“Without fear there cannot be courage.”

― Christopher Paolini

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

― Andre Gide

“If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

“If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.”

― Gene Stratton-Porter, A Girl of the Limberlost

“A goal without a plan is just a wish.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”

― J.M. Barrie

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”

― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

― Seneca

“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.”

― Joseph Campbell

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”

― Rumi

“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”

― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.”

― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

“Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.”

― Ray Bradbury

“Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.”

― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

― Frida Kahlo

“You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times.
There's life in a nutshell.”

― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

― Gerard Way

“You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.”

― Jason Mraz

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

― Vincent Van Gogh

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”

― Theodore Parker

“We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.”

― George R.R. Martin

“Life begins on the other side of despair.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre

“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

― Thomas A. Edison

“The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.”

― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

“When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.”

― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ”

― William S. Burroughs

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!”

― Dolly Parton

“...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”

― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

― Henry Ward Beecher

Top Chess Quotes by Quotes And Quotes Blog

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Top Chess Quotes By Quotes And Quotes Blog

“Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.”

― Susan Polgar

“Chess is all about maintaining coherent strategies. It’s about not giving up when the enemy destroys one plan but to immediately come up with the next. A game isn’t won and lost at the point when the king is finally cornered. The game's sealed when a player gives up having any strategy at all. When his soldiers are all scattered, they have no common cause, and they move one piece at a time, that’s when you’ve lost.”

― Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills

“It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.”

― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“When you see a good move, look for a better one”

― Emanuel Lasker

“Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.”

― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel

“A queen
offers her hand to be kissed,
& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.”

― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.”

― William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners

“Pawns are such fascinating pieces, too...So small, almost insignificant, and yet--they can depose kings. Don't you find that interesting?”

― Lavie Tidhar, The Bookman

“The game gives us a satisfaction that Life denies us. And for the Chess player, the success which crowns his work, the great dispeller of sorrows, is named 'combination'.”

― Emanuel Lasker

“I believe that, not only in chess, but in life in general, people place too much stock in ratings – they pay attention to which TV shows have the highest ratings, how many friends they have on Facebook, and it’s funny. The best shows often have low ratings and it is impossible to have thousands of real friends.”

― Boris Gelfand

“Chess, like love, is infectious at any age - Salo Flohr”

― Irving Chernev, The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played

“Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.”

― Garry Kasparov

“Remember that in chess, it's only the square you land on that matters.”

― Bill Robertie, Beginning Chess Play

“As a rule, the more mistakes there are in a game, the more memorable it remains, because you have suffered and worried over each mistake at the board.”

― Viktor Korchnoi, My Best Games

“In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions.”

― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

“I learned about opening moves and why it's important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle.”

― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.”

― Bobby Fischer

“The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.”

― H.G. Wells

“You have good instincts,trust them. Thinking through every step is fine if you're playing chess, but this isn't chess.”

― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“The art of chess is in knowing which is the most valuable piece in play, then having the courage to sacrifice it for the win.”

― Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys

Quotes From Bill Watterson

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Quotes From Bill Watterson (Author of

The Complete Calvin And Hobbes)

“Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“People pay more attention when they think you’re up to something.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“You know what's the rage this year? ...Hats.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!”

― Bill Watterson, Weirdos From Another Planet: Calvin & Hobbes Series: Book Six: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

“People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.”

― Bill Watterson, The Calvin And Hobbes: Tenth Anniversary Book

“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”

― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”

― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”

― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

“There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.”

― Bill Watterson, The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

“The world isn't fair, Calvin."
"I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?”

― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“I've been thinking Hobbes"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose”

― Bill Watterson

“I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.”

― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Now what state do you live in?'
'Denial.”

― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.”

― Bill Watterson

“I'd hate to have a kid like me.”

― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Calvin: Why are you crying mom?
Mom: I'm cutting up an onion.
Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.”

― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”

― Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere

“I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.”

― Bill Watterson, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Every time I've built character, I've regretted it.”

― Bill Watterson, The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes

“I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.”

― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.”

― Bill Watterson

“As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.”

― Bill Watterson

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”

― Bill Watterson

“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”

― Bill Watterson

“Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.”

― Bill Watterson

“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
What mood is that?
Last-minute panic.”

― Bill Watterson

“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

― Bill Watterson

“There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.”

― Bill Watterson

“You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different.”

― Bill Watterson

“You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!”

― Bill Watterson

“I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.”

― Bill Watterson

“Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said 'I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?”

― Bill Watterson

“God put me on earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I’m so far behind, I’ll never die.”

― Bill Watterson

“That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.”

― Bill Watterson

“I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.”

― Bill Watterson

“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.”

― Bill Watterson

“Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new!
A new year ... a fresh, clean start! It's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities! It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy ... let's go exploring!”

― Bill Watterson, It's a Magical World

“I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.”

― Bill Watterson, It's a Magical World

“They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.”

― Bill Waterson

“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.”

― Bill Watterson

“From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success.... I'm just here to cash in.”

― Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

“A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”

― Bill Watterson, There's Treasure Everywhere

“If you can't win by reason, go for volume.”

― Bill Watterson

“The problem about the future is that it keeps turning into the present.”

― Bill Watterson

“I'm related to people I don't relate to.”

― Bill Watterson

“Years from now, when I'm successful and happy, ...and he's in prison... I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.”

― Bill Watterson

“In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.”

― Bill Watterson, It's a Magical World

“I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!”

― Bill Watterson, Something Under the Bed is Drooling

“For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it!”

― Bill Watterson

“For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.”

― Bill Watterson

“I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.”

― Bill Watterson

“Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.”

― Bill Watterson

“I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.”

― Bill Watterson, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

“Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.”

― Bill Watterson

“I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.”

― Bill Watterson

“From now on I’ll connect the dots my own way.”

― Bill Watterson

“Good friends are hard to come by.. I need more money.”

― Bill Watterson

“Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself.”

― Bill Watterson

“I'll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.”

― Bill Watterson

“I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.”

― Bill Watterson, The Revenge of the Baby-Sat

“In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.”

― Bill Watterson

“Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.”

― Bill Watterson

“Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it.”

― Bill Watterson

“The best presents don't come in boxes.”

― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book

“Calvin: I'm being educated against my will! My rights are being trampled!
Hobbes: Is it a right to remain ignorant?
Calvin: I don't know, but I refuse to find out!”

― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

“Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor?”

― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

“I'm thinking of starting my own talk radio show. I'll spout simplistic opinions for hours on end, ridicule anyone who disagrees with me, and generally foster divisiveness, cynicism, and a lower level of public dialog!”

― Bill Watterson

“I'm only civil because I don't know any swear words.”

― Bill Watterson

“I've never understood people who remember childhood as an idyllic time.”

― Bill Watterson

“When you look into infinity, you realize there are more important things than what people do all day.”

― Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

“Imagination is not always appreciated.”

― Bill Watterson

“Day says the anticipation of having something is often more fun than actually having it.- Calvin”

― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Quotes On Feelings of Heartbreak and Sorrow

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Quotes On Feelings Of Heartbreak And Sorrow

“Think I'll miss you forever,
Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky.”
― Lana Del Rey

“Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!”

― Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart

“When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food...I bare my soul, with words, for all to see.”

― Jennifer Salaiz

“It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”

― E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

“Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn’t happen!” he boomed.”

― Holly Hood

“I have poured my heart out ….
And now I am empty.”

― Ranata Suzuki

“The only place I ever felt at home was with you. There isn’t a place for me anywhere anymore… I’ve been evicted.”

― Ranata Suzuki

“She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad.”

― Janet Fitch, White Oleander

“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.”

― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else. I don't care, life's too long. You can have any man you want. I want him...except him. Always suspected the world didn't smell of fresh paint and flowers. Smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this.”

― Sarah Kane

“Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.”

― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

“It is sad that people need alcohol to make them happy.”

― Habeeb Akande

“Fake happiness is the worst kind of sadness.”

― Dominic Riccitello

“The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.”

― James Sallis, Ghost of a Flea

“Flower will not grow, if the stem doesn't allow”

― Nayreil

“Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.”

― Anderson Cooper

“Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“I rode all day.
I cried all night.
The moon didn’t glow.
The sun didn’t rise.
A comet blazed
Between my eyes.
West and South,
Wind and rain.
Every way is
Just the same.
Pray give me a box
To hide inside.
Pray give me a spade
To dig my own grave.”

― Gail Carson Levine, Fairest

“If you are happy for a day, a thousand people notice it, but when you are sad for years, everyone just walks away.”

― M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

“Moonlight filtered in through the blinds illuminating their bedroom, but the bright glow couldn’t penetrate the darkness that surrounded her heart.”

― J.E.B. Spredemann, An Unforgivable Secret

“When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It's because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.”

― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".”

― Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels

101 Amazing Love Quotes and Sayings

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101 Amazing Love Quotes And Sayings

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“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Lay Morals

“Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.”

― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.”

― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“Do you really think anyone in this world, compares to you in my eyes?”

― S.C. Stephens, Thoughtless

“He was the toast to her butter.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Lucky One

“You have my whole heart. You always did.”

― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with a soaking joy. But sometimes under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots keeping itself alive.”

― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Sometimes two people have to fall apart, to realize how much they need to fall back together.”

― Colleen Hoover

“Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.”

― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe

“Those we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.”

― Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two

“I may not always be with you
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart”

― Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart

“You deserve a lover who takes away the lies and brings you hope, coffee, and poetry.”

― Frida Kahlo

“Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure:

1. Acceptance
2. Understanding
3. Appreciation

Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart.

Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions?

So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.”

― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me.”

― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.”

― Nikki Giovanni

“Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.”

― Alysha Speer

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“Physics isn't the most important thing. Love is.”

― Richard P. Feynman

“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”

― Simone Elkeles, Leaving Paradise

“I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.”

― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her. (Carter Maguire)”

― Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After

“They had an ordinary life, full of ordinary things—if love can ever be called that.”

― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Love who you love while you have them. That's all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you'll never run out.”

― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.”

― Rabindranath Tagore

“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”

― W.H. Auden

“Every day People straighten up the hair, why not the heart?”

― che guevara

“Know that love is truly timeless.”

― Mary M. Ricksen

“If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.”

― Mik Everett

“A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night”

― James Patterson

“But love, I’ve come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

― Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding

“We're all golden sunflowers inside.”

― allen ginsberg

“When you miss someone....it’s weird…your body doesn’t function normally..as it should. Because I miss you, and my heart…it’s not steady…my soul it sings numb. Fingers are cold…like you…your soul.”

― Jamie Weise

“For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like a "Reserved" sign on a quiet corner table in a restaurant. Despite the fact that I was sure I'd never see her again.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

“Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am”

― Christopher Poindexter

“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”

― Scott Turow

“Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.”

― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.”

― Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone

“It's like I'm thirteen again and he's my crush. All I'm aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he's doing, who he's talking to.”

― Sophie Kinsella, Remember Me?

“I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.”

― Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters

“I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.”

― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.”

― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.”

― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? ”

― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

“I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”

― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.”

― Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe

“I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that”

― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.”

― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

― Bell Hooks

“Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.”

― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy of someone who seemed...normal.”

― Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

“I love you, in my mind where my thoughts reside, in my heart where my emotions live, and in my soul where my dreams are born. I love you.”

― Dee Henderson, The Healer

“A girl can still admire, can’t she? Even those who can’t afford to go in the store can still window-shop. Right? Knowing he wasn’t for me didn’t mean I couldn’t covet the merchandise.”

― Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse

“What if love wasn't the act of finding what you were missing but the give-and-take that made you both match?”

― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

“The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.”

― Joshua Harris, I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance

“The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed question mark can be the difference between bliss and disaster, and a deeply respected period or a cleverly inserted ellipsis can prevent all kinds of exclamations.”

― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“I don't think you can define love.”

― Harry Styles

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?”

― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch or you might simply get covered in sap and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors where it is harder to get a splinter.”

― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

“Love is a rebellious bird that nobody can tame.”

― veronica rossi, Through the Ever Night

“Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning and wander through the city with your hand in mine, and I'll be happy for the rest of my fucked up little life.”

― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

“I believe in love the verb, not the noun.”

― Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“I love you and it's getting worse.”

― Joseph Morris

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.”

― Anton Chekhov

“No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? ”

― Albert Einstein

“Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.”

― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“Lover? I don't know. I don't know if she loves me. I don't know if I love her. All I can say is, she's the one I think about. All the time. She's the voice I want to hear. She's the face I hope to see.”

― Sophie Kinsella, I've Got Your Number

“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”

― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

“Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."

“Why are they all high-calorie foods?”

― Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

“If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.”

― J.M. Barrie

“A man in love can do extraordinary things, I don’t care if you’re an angel, you’re my angel, and I won’t let you go.”

― Alexandra Adornetto, Halo

“I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl
I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you.”

― Rumi

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”

― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“I believe in the immeasurable power of love; that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Love demands everything, they say, but my love demands only this: that no matter what happens or how long it takes, you`ll keep faith in me, you`ll remember who we are, and you`ll never feel despair.”

― Ann Brashares, My Name Is Memory

“You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.”

― Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

“There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched.
We separate.”

― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“How can love be worthy of its name if one selects solely the pretty things and leaves out the hardships? It is easy to enjoy the good and dislike the bad. Anybody can do that. The real challenge is to love the good and the bad together, not because you need to take the rough with the smooth but because you need to go beyond such descriptions and accept love in its entirety.”

― Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

“Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”

― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.”

― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.”

― Amanda Grace, But I Love Him

“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.”

― Mark Twain, Notebook

“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”

― Jack Kerouac

“The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.”

― Osho

“She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger”

― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.”

― Sigmund Freud

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board. No time to think about what's happening. It's inevitable. An event you can't control. A crazy, heart-stopping, roller-coaster ride that just has to take its course.”

― Jackie Collins, Lucky

“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.”

― bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love

“The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color -- oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples...”

― Anna Godbersen, The Luxe

“Desire is the kind of thing that
eats you
and
leaves you starving.”

― Nayyirah Waheed

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you've made.”

― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“My point is that love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest, bravest acts are done for love.”

― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”

― Michel de Montaigne , The Complete Essays

“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

“In love, one and one are one.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre

“None of us can choose where we shall love...”

― Susan Kay, Phantom

“They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.
But now I knew that every mad word was true.”

― Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

“You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.”

― Shannon Hale

“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love”

― John Lennon

“Fight for the only thing she knew was good enough, noble enough, powerful enough to be worth risking everything... Love.”

― Lauren Kate

“...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”

― Emily Giffin, Love the One You're With

“Hearts Live By Being Wounded”

― Oscar Wilde

“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”

― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“He promised her that he would give her everything, everything she wanted, as men in love always do. And she trusted him despite herself, as women in love always do.”

― Philippa Gregory, The White Queen

“Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.”

― tarryn fisher, Dirty Red

“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.
This only looks like love.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable,
Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.”

― Euripides, Medea and Other Plays

Quotes On Feelings Of Sadness And Melancholy

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Quotes On Feelings Of Sadness and Melancholy

“Sadness was so claustrophobic.”

― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

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“It was such a relief to be able to sob and have someone know all the reasons why.”

― Rachel Hawkins, Rebel Belle

“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”

― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.”

― Tim Winton, Breath

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“I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.”

― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen.”
― Shaun Hick

“About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing.
I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.”

― Xiaolu Guo, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

“After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.”

― Richard Matheson, I Am Legend and Other Stories

“The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.”

― Manuel Rivas, Books Burn Badly

“Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”

― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“In a world where happiness has become a social duty and sadness a public offense, life opens unrepentantly into a kaleidoscopic masquerade and a muddling carousel of faking. ("Even if the world goes down, my mobile will save me" )”

― Erik Pevernagie

“Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings. But when you grow up, you'll learn that there are things so sad, they can never be washed away by tears. That there are painful memories that should never be washed away. So people who are truly strong laugh when they want to cry. They endure all of the pain and sorrow while laughing with everybody else.”

― Hideaki Sorachi

“Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.”

― Thisuri Wanniarachchi, COLOMBO STREETS

“I was wishing I was invisible. Outside, the leaves were falling to the ground, and I was infinitely sad, sad down to my bones. I was sad for Phoebe and her parents and Prudence and Mike, sad for the leaves that were dying, and sad for myself, for something I had lost.”

― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.”

― Heather Brewer, First Kill

“The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.”

― Angel Wagenstein, Isaac's Torah

“I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.”

― Ashly Lorenzana

“How do you file a restraining order against sadness?”

― Alex Adams, White Horse

“My insides feel like they are crumbling like a towering JENGA game. I lose.”

― Stephanie Campbell, Grounding Quinn

“Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

“May be its mine bad-luck
Or yours not to get me
But I still have hope
Of being yours”

― Hasil Paudyal, Blended Words

“The sky cries for those filled with sadness”

― Sonya Watson, The Tide Breaker

“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”

― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

“Im dying everyday
My breakfast are cigarettes and coffee
My lunch is depression
My snacks are regrets
My dinner are memories and anger
My night is non stoping tears
Sleep is my death
Waking up the next day and here we go again dying everyday”

― Ali hassan hasan

“I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.”

― Laura Restrepo, The Angel of Galilea

“I was the one with the open wound, and the river waters turned red when I bathed in them. My sadness is greater than the heavens.”

― Laura Restrepo, The Angel of Galilea

“Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.”

― Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Like love, mourning affects the world—and the worldly—with unreality, with importunity. I resist the world, I suffer from what it demands of me, from its demands. The world increases my sadness, my dryness, my confusion, my irritation, etc. The world depresses me.”

― Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary

“I think a lot about killing myself, not like a point on a map but rather like a glowing exit sign at a show that’s never been quite bad enough to make me want to leave. See, when I’m up I don’t kill myself because, holy shit, there’s so much left to do. When I’m down I don’t kill myself because then the sadness would be over, and the sadness is my old paint under the new. The sadness is the house fire or the broken shoulder: I’d still be me without it but I’d be so boring.”

― Neil Hilborn, The Future

“Being unhappy alone isn't all that much fun, but what's even tougher is playing one's part without forgetting one's lines, coping with other people's compassion, their comments, being there with the right line when they give the cue.”

― Francois Maspero, Cat's Grin

“I wear a necklace of hope with pearly beads. When I met you, it broke, and the beads spilled all over the floor, into the gutters.”

― Karen Quan, Write like no one is reading

“She saw that he knew what loneliness was, that he understood why it might be raining inside a person even when the sun shone, that sadness needed no immediate cause.”

― Jan-Philipp Sendker, The Art of Hearing Heartbeats

“I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyse than to feel.”

― H.P. Lovecraft

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.”

― Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc

“Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.”

― Lorrie Moore, Like Life

“A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,
A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,
Which finds no natural outlet or relief,
In word, or sigh, or tear.”

― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.”

― Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

“Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life.”

― Michael Bassey Johnson

“A lesson for all of us is that for every loss, there is victory, for every sadness, there is joy, and when you think you’ve lost everything, there is hope.”

― Geraldine Solon, The Assignment

“You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.”

― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

“That feeling you get when you want to tell some one you love them, and there is no one there..”

― Melody Carstairs

“It’s difficult for me to imagine the rest of my life without you. But I suppose I don’t have to imagine it... I just have to live it”

― Ranata Suzuki

“Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.”

― RJ Gonzales, Mundahlia

“Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.”

― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“It was only when the salt water of my tears ran into my cuts and made them sting
that I discovered I was crying.”

― Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There?

“Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.”
― Kouta Hirano “Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.”

― Kouta Hirano

“Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.”

― Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji

“Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness”

― Vijay Dhameliya

“I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This story is meant to winch your ribs open and tamper with your heart. This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack a fine imagination.”

― Heidi Julavits, The Effect of Living Backwards

“Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.”

― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

“If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me.”

― Patricia Highsmith

Deep and Thought-Provoking Quotes from Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski Quotes

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”

― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.”

― Charles bukowski

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

― Charles Bukowski

“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”

― Charles Bukowski

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”

― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.”

― Charles Bukowski, Women

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”

― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”

― Charles Bukowski

“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”

― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”

― Charles Bukowski

“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

― Charles Bukowski, Women

“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”

― Charles Bukowski

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”

― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”

― Charles Bukowski

“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're damned right. Drink up. We'll have another.”

― Charles Bukowski

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”

― Charles Bukowski

“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”

― Charles Bukowski

“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”

― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”

― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“Without literature, life is hell.”

― Charles Bukowski

“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”

― Charles Bukowski, Pulp

“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the
room was like sunlight to me.”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art”

― Charles Bukowski

“And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”

― Charles Bukowski, Women

“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”

― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”

― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”

― Charles Bukowski

“I want so much that is not here and do not know
where to go.”

― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their
lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.”

― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”

― Charles Bukowski

“Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.”

― Charles Bukowski

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”

― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“each man's hell is in a different place:
mine is just up and behind
my ruined face.”

― charles bukowski

“It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun”

― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”

― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“people run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.”

― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“The trouble with a mask is it never changes”

― Charles Bukowski

“nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.”

― Charles Bukowski

“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”

― Charles Bukowski

“if you get married they think you're
finished
and if you are without a woman they think you're
incomplete.”

― Charles Bukowski

“I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.”

― Charles Bukowski

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”

― Charles Bukowski

“so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another”

― Charles Bukowski, The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.”

― Charles Bukowski, Women

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could ﬁnd no meaning.”

― Charles Bukowski

“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”

― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”

― Charles Bukowski

“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”

― Charles Bukowski, Women

Tea Quotes and Sayings for Tea Lovers

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Tea Quotes and Sayings for Tea-Lovers

“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“A cup of tea would restore my normality."

[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
― Douglas Adams

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”
― Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

“Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea?”
― Neil Gaiman

“Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was.

"Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“If you are cold, tea will warm you;
if you are too heated, it will cool you;
If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
If you are excited, it will calm you.”
― William Ewart Gladstone

“As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.”
― Aprilynne Pike, Illusions

“There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.”
― Gary Snyder

“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”
― Sydney Smith, A memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith

“There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.”
― Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living

“Tea is the magic key to the vault where my brain is kept.”
― Frances Hardinge

“While there is tea, there is hope.”
― Arthur Wing Pinero, Sweet Lavender - A Comedy in Three Acts.

“Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.”
― Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“Tea! Bless ordinary everyday afternoon tea!”
― Agatha Christie

“The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.”
― Arnold Bennett, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day

“Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
-Mick Jagger

“Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword
Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)”
― Lemony Snicket

"At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.”
― Robert Godden

“Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they didn't have tea?”
― Noel Coward

“Making tea is a ritual that stops the world from falling in on you.”
― Jonathan Stroud, The Creeping Shadow

“Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.”
― Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals

“Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth."
[From: 19 Lessons On Tea]”
― Alexander Pushkin

“A simple cup of tea is far from a simple matter.”
― Mary Lou Heiss, The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide

“I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.”
― James Boswell, London Journal, 1762-1763

“My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs.”
― Charles Dickens, Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy

“A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.”

― Phoebe Stone, The Romeo and Juliet Code

“Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.”

― Christine Feehan, Hidden Currents

“Coffee—a barbaric drink. That poor, tortured bean. All that fermenting and husking and roasting and grinding. And what is tea? Tea is dried leaves rehydrated. Just add water, Mrs. Strickland. All living things need water.”

― Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

“I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.”

― Paul Colman

“When she is unable to avoid the matter further, she makes a pot of tea.”

― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Grim determination was one thing. Outright heroism before I’d drunk my morning tea was quite another...”

― Stephanie Burgis, Snowspelled

“Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence."

(Essay on Tea, 1757.)”

― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson

“Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely.”

― Helen Simpson, The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea

“Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [...] chink of cups and the saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.”― George R. Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

“Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours."

― Arthur Gray, Little Tea Book

“The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.”

― Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit

I was learning, even in my brief time in England, that a cup of tea almost always helped. I didn't know whether it was the caffeine, the warmth, or the simple fact of having someone else do something kind, but a soothing cup of tea in Harriet Dalrymple's cottage was fast becoming my lifeline to sanity.”

― Beth Pattillo

“You can serve high tea around the dining room table, but afternoon tea is more of a living room occasion, with everything brought in on a tray or a cart.”

― Angela Hynes, The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea

“The hour [...] can be anywhere between three and six o'clock in the afternoon. The general rule is that the earlier tea is served, the lighter the refreshments. At three, tea is usually a snack -- dainty finger sandwiches, petits fours, fresh strawberrries; at six, it can be a meal -- or "high" tea -- with sausage rolls, salads, and trifle.”

― Angela Hynes, The Pleasures of Afternoon Tea

“Tea is always an excuse for a clandestine agenda.”

― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“Tea: was there ever a more universal and life-sustaining beverage.”

― Ray Mears, Wilderness Chef: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking Outdoors

“I want the home about me: candles burning, curtains drawn, warmth, tea, friendship, love.”

― Winston Graham, Jeremy Poldark

“It's unbelievable really, the reviving power of a hot bath, a cup of tea and a roaring fire.”

― M.A. Bennett, S.T.A.G.S

“Tea is not vodka, it is impossible to drink it a lot”

― Mikhail Bulgakov

“To tea, without which I would likely be dead.”

― Tara Sim, Timekeeper

“Tea is her answer to everything. I once broke my arm and she tried to give me Lapsang Souchong”

― Gail Carriger, Reticence

“Tea has a manner of setting the world right.”

― John Larison, Whiskey When We're Dry

“The British definitely like their tea. It’s their solution to everything, all problems and concerns. If there’s ever a major crisis, a cup of tea will help.”

― C.R. Stewart

“As a measure of our consternation, one or two people nearly put down their cups of tea.”

― Jodi Taylor, And the Rest is History

“tea-spi-ra-tion
noun
- being inspired to do, create or feel something extraordinary, all thanks to tea.”

― Lu Ann Pannunzio, Tea-spiration: Inspirational Words for Tea Lovers

Sad Quotes About Love and Life

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Sad Love Quotes

“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams.”

― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.”

― Charles Bukowski, Women

“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”

― Gabriel García Márquez

“People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still never free. There's always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won't be happy unless you are ... I just don't want that responsibility.”

― Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility

“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.”

― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”

― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”

― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“I can't eat and I can't sleep. I'm not doing well in terms of being a functional human, you know?”

― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.”

― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”

― Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

“I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.”

― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”

― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly,

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”

― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

“Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn't feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That's my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story.”

― Jennifer Salaiz

“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”

― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“The sadness will last forever.”

― Vincent van Gogh

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.”

― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.”

― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt to a tumbler of water, there comes a point where simply no more will be absorbed.”

― Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger

“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but 'steal' some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”

― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

“I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt.”

― Rachel Sontag, House Rules

“Tears are words the mouth can't say nor can the heart bear.”

― Joshua Wisenbaker

“You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”

― Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

“the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone,

when you've made them your eternity.”

― Sanober Khan

“From the moment we are born, we begin to die.”

― Janne Teller, Nothing

“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”

― Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes

“I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.”

― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin

“a flower knows, when its butterfly will return,

and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;
but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon,
when I don't know, if you will ever come back.”
― Sanober Khan

“One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.”

― K.L. Toth

“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”

― Alan Lightman, Einstein's Dreams

“It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.”

― Alexander Lowen, The Voice of the Body

“I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.”
― Elizabeth Scott, Living Dead Girl

“Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“I wish the night would end,
I wish the day'd begin,
I wish it would rain or snow,
or the wind would blow,
or the grass would grow,
I wish I had yesterday,
I wish there were games to play...”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind.”

― Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden

“It's OK not to be OK.”

― Lindsey Kelk, I Heart New York

“Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they remain stagnant, their bodies refusing to follow pace with the universe. With these kind of people everything aches for too long, everything moves without rush, wounds are always wet.”

― Warsan Shire, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth

“I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to be sure, but one thing was clear: no one needed me.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I was lonely. I felt it deeply and permanently, that this state of being on my own might never disappear. But I welcomed the lonliness, which had everything to do with being anonymous. It's never lonliness that nibbles away at a person's insides, but not having room inside themselves to be comfortably alone.”

― Rachel Sontag, House Rules

“If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.”

― Laura Pritchett, Sky Bridge

“When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.”

― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“Don't dwell on things. Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of sadness.”

― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero

“Tantrums are seldom about the thing they appear to be about.”

― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

“tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.”

― David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.”

― Jean Racine

“That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.”

― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.”

― Alex Witchel, The Spare Wife

“i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.”

― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”

― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

The Best Quotes on Happiness

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Happiness Quotes

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Jim Rohn

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.”

― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.”
― Osho Rajneesh, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

“Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The key to happiness - or that even more desired thing, calmness - lies not in always thinking happy thoughts. No. That is impossible. No mind on earth with any kind of intelligence could spend a lifetime enjoying only happy thoughts. They key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them.
Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes".”
― Lauren Oliver, Delirium

“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
― Mark Twain

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
― Steve Maraboli

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand

“Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.”
― Orhan Pamuk, Snow

“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
― Steve Maraboli

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations.There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
― Marianne Williamson

“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

“Everybody in the world is seeking happiness—and there is one sure way to find it. That is by controlling your thoughts. Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

“There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.”
― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

“People tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will descend like fine weather if you're fortunate. But happiness is the result of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.”
― Ben Carson

“it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others.”
― Daisaku Ikeda

“When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”
― Oscar Wilde

“To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness - though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot

“Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpected downpour and I am just giving myself into it. Because what the fuck else can you do? Run for cover? Shriek and curse? No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it because if you can make yourself happy in the rain, then you're doing pretty alright in life.”
― David Levithan, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”
― Robin Williams

“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
― James Matthew Barrie

“There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children's rooms - when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.”
― Elizabeth Berg, The Art of Mending

“Can a person steal happiness? Or is just another internal, infernal human trick?”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.”
― James Oppenheim

“Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.”
― Doris Mortman

“Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.”
― Dennis Lehane

“Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.”
― Aeschylus

“My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.”
― Dan Howell

“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
― Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.”
― Nicholas Sparks

“We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing? (136-137)”
― Sri S. Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras

“To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”
― Michael J. Fox

“Having a low opinion of yourself is not 'modesty.' It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not 'egotism.' It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success.”
― Bobbe Sommer

“Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)”
― Jean-Yves Leloup, Compassion and Meditation: The Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity

“If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation. In order to complete our amazing life journey successfully, it is vital that we turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.”
― Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

Unrequited Love Quotes

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Unrequited Love Quotes

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

“And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.”
― Lauren Oliver, Requiem

“...unrequited love does not die; it's only beaten down to a secret place where it hides, curled and wounded. For some unfortunates, it turns bitter and mean, and those who come after pay the price for the hurt done by the one who came before.”
― Elle Newmark, The Book of Unholy Mischief

“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister

“I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As long as something is never even started, you never have to worry about it ending. It has endless potential.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
― Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life

“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.”
― Christina Westover

“A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.”
― Rose Gordon, Her Imperfect Groom

“the saddest thing is to be
a minute to someone,
when you've made them your eternity.”
― Sanober Khan

“sometimes no matter how many eyelashes or dandelion seeds you blow, no matter how much of your heart you tear out and slap on your sleeve, it just ain't gonna happen.”
― Melissa Jensen, The Fine Art of Truth or Dare

“Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“There is nothing so mortifying as to fall in love with someone who does not share one's sentiments.”
― Georgette Heyer, Venetia

“When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special.”
― Miranda Kenneally, Catching Jordan

“Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”
― Cassandra Clare

“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“I’d always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.”
― Alma Katsu, The Taker

“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Never fall in love with someone that won't fight for you because when the real battles begin they won't pull your heart to safety, but they will their own.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“When you experience loss, people say you’ll move through the 5 stages of grief….
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
….. What they don’t tell you is that you’ll cycle through them all every day.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.”
― Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz

“My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my chest by someone who wanted no part of it.”
― Meredith Taylor, Churning Waters

“Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.”
― Kiran Joshi

“All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.”
― Cathleen Schine, The Love Letter

“Which is when I decided I would never love anyone again because you just felt like an idiot when you put love out there and it didn't come back your way.”
― Karen Tayleur, Love Notes From Vinegar House

“I never hated you. My anger was never with you, but with the little hell my heart had put me in. The anger always passed. I never regretted loving you. If I had gone to my grave never kissing you or touching you, I still would not have thought it a wasted love.”
― Madeline Hunter, The Romantic

“She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.”
― Kellie Elmore

“The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I remembered when I woke up, the last thing that drifted through my mind as I went to sleep, and during the day she came to me obtrusively, obsessively, always with a painful shock.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Everything tells me you care for me. And yet never a sign from you.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“Chronic depression is the emotional compound interest paid on the inability to let go of an unrequited love.”
― Khang Kijarro Nguyen

“let's light a candle for you not wanting me back”
― Melissa Broder, Scarecrone

“Every now and then, two men kill each other over a woman who neither loves nor likes either of them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I can't say what I was looking for exactly, though I was ever hopeful that he might come out and profess his love, save me, run away with me, solve all my problems.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

“I mean, here's the thing I don't get. How do people come to expect that their crushes will be reciprocated? Like, how does that get to be your default assumption.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“I don’t entirely understand how anyone gets a boyfriend. Or a girlfriend. It just seems like the most impossible odds. You have to have a crush on the exact right person at the exact right moment. And they have to like you back. A perfect alignment of feelings and circumstances. It’s almost unfathomable that it happens as often as it does.”
― Becky Albertalli, The Upside of Unrequited

“The Heart wants what it wants - or else it does not care”
― Emily Dickinson

“Trying to get someone interested in us (who is not) is a painful and pointless endeavour. There are many people in the world. Some are for us. Most are not.”
― Donna Goddard, Faith

“You're the queen of pushing people away before they can say they like you. The queen of rejecting first so you can't be rejected.”
― Maggie Ann Martin, To Be Honest

“I've enough pride never to let myself love a man who does not love me.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Will this pain leave as quickly as you did?”
― Karl Kristian Flores, Cardiac Ablation

“You never forget someone you've loved once.”
― Priya Prithviraj, I Still Remember

“And in the end, I said you would love me. We’re in the end and there’s only one of us here.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“I joined social media to get over an unrequited love of real life.”
― Maria Karvouni

“The real horror of my life is not that I've killed some terrible people. The real horror is that the people I've loved didn't love me back.”
― Caroline Kepnes, Hidden Bodies

“Fortunate are those who are loved back
Even fortunate those whose love is cul”
― Zubair Ahsan

“I erased the imprints you've left in your wake so that in the distant future, when you eventually feel the need to look back, you won't find any evidence of my treacherous heart.”
― Theresa Mariz, All the Feelings That We Hide

“Men like you happen once. Women like me prefer to live our lives cautiously with your after taste, lessons and splinters of broken heart underneath our tongues.”
― Ayushee Ghoshal, 4 AM Conversations

“A broken heart can be as lethal as a bullet to the brain.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“But the whole thing didn't go anywhere—though it never went away either. It just sat there, no past, no future, like a glass of wine filled to the rim but never drunk from.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“She could only hold on to her husband with both hands and promise herself that the best way to keep someone was to let him go.”
― Lauren Willig, The English Wife

“You can give birth to a beautiful, perfect human being, but requited love isn’t guaranteed for her—or for any of us.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Street

“Unrequited love is love pantomime.”
― Marty Rubin

“My heart’s been empty since you left - but still I refuse to put up a vacancy sign.
I’m just not ready for anybody else to move in yet.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“A big issue that some empaths face is unrequited love and all the grief that accompanies this experience. If someone truly is your soulmate or twin flame, the relationship will happen sooner or later. Don’t put your life on hold for another person, no matter how badly you want to be with them. If it’s meant to be, it will be.”
― Mateo Sol, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing

“It is a terrible, wretched thing to love someone whom you know cannot love you. There are things that are more dreadful. There are many human pains more grievous. And yet it remains both terrible and wretched. Like so many things, it is insoluble.”
― Naomi Alderman, Disobedience

“I wanted her to know just how much I loved her while also letting her know that she bore not one particle of blame for not loving me back.
But I wouldn’t say that. It was rosepetals I wanted to throw, not a poison dart.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Once you start learning how to choose the peaceful, a small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man, can be enough of a lover. But if you go on asking for more and more, then thousands of men are not enough. Even the most beautiful man is finished sooner or later. Your desire goes on and on. It knows no end... it stops nowhere.”
― Osho, Beloved of My Heart: A Darshan Diary

“In a way, it was the same as any normal break up. You took what was yours …. and I kept what I’d had from before we were together…
You took my heart …. and I had nothing…”
― Ranata Suzuki

“You're hung up on something that's never going to love you back.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire

“Though I never really had you….
… to me you will always be the one that got away.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“I try to do something positive – I socialise more…
But deep down I know the truth.
An entire world of people can never replace the one that I’ve lost.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“Everybody wants their own little place in the world. And maybe mine is here… Loving you from a distance…”
― Ranata Suzuki

“It hurts that I was just one page in the book of your life…
But what hurts more is knowing you’ll revise that chapter someday….
….. and you’ll erase me completely.”
― Ranata Suzuki

“How do you love someone and just… walk away? Just like that.
You just, go on as normal…. You get up, get dressed, go to work… How can you do that?
How can you be okay with that?”
― Ranata Suzuki

“What no one ever told me was that sometimes ‘time’ only adds layers to the wounds and if you scratch off the dust years later, you will still find him in your blood and flesh, residing in a vacant house that you thought had no tenants.
Time.
They never said that time only teaches us regrets.”
― Ayushee Ghoshal

“Love, no matter how high or low its form, must be requited, or the lover suffers.”
― dexter palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion

“unrequited love is like
kneeling on uncooked rice
and waiting for
the boiling water
of his kisses
to soften the pain
but he never comes.”
― K. Y. Robinson, The Chaos of Longing

“You make me feel like a firefly. Trapped in a belljar; starved for love.”
― -Ayushee Ghoshal, 4 AM Conversations with the Ghosts of Old Lovers

“Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it's not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.”
― Ivan Turgenev, Diary of a Superfluous Man

“I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could not bear them. I buried myself in the romantic writings I had repudiated when my mother tried to impose them on me with a heavy hand, and in them I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“I want you to be happy, and him to be happy. And yet when you walk down that aisle to meet him and join yourselves forever you will walk an invisible path of the shards of my heart, Tessa. I would give over my own life for either of yours. I perhaps that when you told me you did not love me my feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that. It is unfair to tell you this, I know, when you can do nothing about it.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess

“Have you ever loved someone so much that even when they chip pieces away from you, you still try to give them what’s left? I know I have… I know I do.”
― Danielle Esplin, Give It Back

“Some people are like an open grave:
You give it the thing you love most
And then get nothing in return.”
― Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri, Birds Through a Ceiling of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets

“What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

“Don't take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can't be yours?'

'That's the very thing I say to myself,' said Gabriel.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.”
― tim heaton

“The only thing sadder than unrequited love is being in a relationship where there is unrequited love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“It was all a matter of timing," she says. "My train was late that day. The day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to. It was a possibility, one of thousands, and not inevitable, the way some things are.”
― Erin Morgenstern

“The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn”
― David Nicholls

“Kat stood immobile and watched with pain, a kiss of passion, a kiss of desire; a kiss that could never be hers.”
― Kiki Archer, But She Is My Student

“Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.”
― Louise Glück

“She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her.
It had unfurled.
If her heart were truly a scroll, she could burn it.
It would become a tunnel of flame, a handful of ash.
The secrets she had written inside herself would be gone. No one would know”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Curse

“Which is worse? Loving someone and not being able to be with them or not loving someone and having to be with them.”
― Donna Lynn Hope

“The time when you wish if death was possible from a heartbreak”
― Kiran Joshi, Beyond forever...in love

“The Hardest thing about being broken, isn't the Love you don't receive,
It's the Love you long to give that nobody wants..”
― Dinesh Kumar Biran

“The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.”
― Kiran Joshi, Beyond forever...in love

“These feelings...the ugly feelings in my heart...should have been blown away...and buried deep in the sands...”
― Rei Tōma, Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 9

“No matter how bleak, there is still chance of love in hatred but none in indifference”
― Kiran Joshi, Beyond forever...in love

“Time didn’t heal my heal wounds but it lent me perspective. My vision was no longer clouded and I saw what I’d become. I’d let inspiration become obsession. Tunnel vision had hindered all progress. I was so fixated on you, I got stuck.”
― Ashley Sarel

“That thing that Hamlet says - "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so". Not quite true if you are stuck under a grand piano, not quite true for genocide, but surely it must be true about love?”
― deborah meyler

“Sometimes people leave us because staying becomes an impossibility. Because the world just gets too small. Or, sometimes, because there is just one boat, and too many hands. ...Because maybe, life can be a bit bigger than it exists today. And because, somewhere else, there may be another boat.”
― Collier Lumpkin, Love, to Taste

“He offered his love ... she could not bother,
She gives her love to the other! The other!”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

“Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?”
― Marcel Proust, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

“Love is the one thing in this world that you should never have to go through alone… For unreciprocated love is the most soul crushing experience you will ever go through.”
― Ben Mitchell

“I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“Eventually, I spent so much time in the friend zone
that I grew to think of it as some kind
of magical home away from home, some lush forest
filled with unicorns and elves and puppies
none of whom were getting laid.”
― Dylan Garity

“Some are convicted for breaking the heart…some are the victims of broken heart – Irony of unrequited love.”
― Heenashree Khandelwal, Soulmates, By Chance

“I can't do it anymore... The way you consume my mind when we aren't together? I don't have time for it anymore. I've got more important things to think about now than your little weak moments ”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“It’s bad enough to love someone who don’t love you, but to have them told of it is perfectly awful. It makes me wild just to think of it. Ah, Fan, I’m getting so ill tempered and envious and wicked, I don’t know what will happen to me. - Polly”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl

“Cruelty is a language that the blind can see, the deaf can hear, and the heart feels forever.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Four & Twenty Blackbirds

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”
― Clive Barker

Mark Twain Quotes

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Mark Twain Quotes

A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved,
and the heart.
—The Prince and the Pauper (1881)

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can’t sleep anyhow.
—Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935)

Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don’t be fooled by this absurd saw; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him.
—Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935)

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out

early, and that not even birds should do it unless they

are out of worms.

—“New Year’s Day” (1866)

Go to bed early, get up early—this is wise. Some authorities

say get up with one thing, some with another. But

a lark is really the best thing to get up with. It gives you

a splendid reputation with everybody to know that you

get up with the lark; and if you get the right kind of a

lark, and work at him right, you can easily train him to

get up at half-past nine, every time—it is no trick at all.

—1882 speech

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation
myself, it has always been my rule never to
smoke when asleep, and never refrain when awake.
It is a good rule.
—1905 speech

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one
cigar at a time. I have no other restrictions.
—1905 speech

Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would
work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take
a drink—under any circumstances.
—Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935)

As for drinking, I have no rule about that. When the
others drink I like to help.
—“Seventieth Birthday” speech (1905)

Do not undervalue the headache. While at its sharpest
it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the
unexpired remainder is worth four dollars a minute.
—Following the Equator (1897)

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you
don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what
you’d druther not.
—Following the Equator (1897)

There ought to be room in this house to swear in. It’s
dangerous to have to suppress an emotion like that.
—quoted in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)
by Albert Bigelow Paine

If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to
whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to
extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit
him with a brick.
—1882 speech

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once
lost I could not find it with a dog.
—1894 notebook entry

Do not part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
—Following the Equator (1897)

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
—Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935)

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
—quoted in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)
by Albert Bigelow Paine

Happiness ain’t a thing in itself—it’s only a contrast
with something that ain’t pleasant.
—“Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven”

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all.
The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all
our irritations and resentments flit away, and a sunny
spirit takes their place.
—“What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us”

There are three things which come to my mind which
I consider excellent advice: First . . . don’t smoke—that
is, don’t smoke to excess . . . Second, don’t drink—that
is, don’t drink to excess. Third, don’t marry—I mean,
to excess.
—1909 speech

Do something every day that you don’t want to do;
this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing
your duty without pain.
—Following the Equator (1897)

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we
think of ourselves and how little we think of the
other person.
—1898 notebook entry

Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest
of us could not succeed.
—Following the Equator (1897)

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles—by the

ears, by the heels, or any other way, so you can manage

it; it’s the healthiest thing a body can do.

—The American Claimant (1899)

When you are expecting the worst, you get something

that is not so bad, after all.

—A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)

An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up
one’s self-respect. The plan of the newspaper is good
and wise; when you can’t get a compliment any other
way, pay yourself one.
—1894 notebook entry

It has never been my way to bother much about things

which you can’t cure.

—A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889)

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or

no influence in society.

—quoted in More Maxims of Mark (1927)

There are women who have an indefinable charm
in their faces which makes them beautiful to their
intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the
matter out and find this beauty would fail.
—A Tramp Abroad (1880)

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

—Following the Equator (1897)

There are two times in a man’s life when he should not

speculate: when he can’t afford it, and when he can.

—Following the Equator (1897)

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and

then Success is sure.

—1887 notebook entry

There is an old-time toast which is golden for its

beauty. “When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may

you not meet a friend.”

—Following the Equator (1897)

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

—Following the Equator (1897)

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

—Following the Equator (1897)

Honesty is the best policy—when there is money in it.

—1901 speech

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

—quoted in More Maxims of Mark (1927)

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old,

second hand diamonds than none at all.

—Following the Equator (1897)

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation,

arrogance, tyranny.

—quoted in Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

by Albert Bigelow Paine

Even Noah got no salary for the first six months—

partly on account of the weather and partly because

he was learning navigation.

—Mark Twain in Eruption (1940)

Fathers Day Quotes

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Every day is Father's Day for me to my father. And hopefully I can do the right things for my daughter where she thinks the same.

Saquon Barkley

I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I'm so close to him. He's my big brother, but also my father.

Kyrie Irving

In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.

Margaret Heffernan

Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

Karen DeCrow

I don't think you need a particular day to dedicate to your dad or to make your father or parents feel special. A child should make his or her parents feel special every day and vice versa.

Varun Dhawan

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Michael Gurian

"When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit."

Jennifer Grant

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
George Herbert

"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
—Signmund Freud

“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.”
—Émile Gaboriau

“A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.”

“She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father.”

—Harper Lee

“A father is a banker provided by nature.”
—French proverb
“The thrill of being a great father is not seeing your children go on to become successful adults. The thrill of a great father is the journey, experiencing your child’s successes along the pathway to their greatness.”
—Reed Markham

“A man’s worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own.”
—Lisa Rogers
“Great fathers don’t find fault. Great fathers find solutions.”
—Reed Markham

“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”
—Billy Graham
“Any man can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad.”
—Anne Geddes
“Good fathers do three things: they provide, they nurture and they guide.”
—Roland Warren
“The imprint of a father remains forever on the life of the child.”
—Roy Lessin
“If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.”
—James Baldwin
“Fatherhood is a marathon, not a sprint.”
—Paul L. Lewis

Life Quotes About Bitter Realities Of Life

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Life Quotes About Bitter Realities of Life

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”

― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Delicious Ambiguity.”

― Gilda Radner

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

― William Goldman, William Goldman: Four Screenplays

“Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.”

― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”

― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.

Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.

This is all practice.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.”

― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten

“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”

― Hayley Williams

“Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”

― Aldous Huxley

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.”
― Ayn Rand

“But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.”
― Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road

“It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.”
― Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape

“It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.”
― David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
― Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart

“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. ”
― Philip Roth, The Dying Animal

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”
― Cesare Pavese, Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

“Life ... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

The Best and Amazing Quotes and Sayings on Friendship

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Friendship Quotes

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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

― Elie Wiesel

"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."

Oscar Wilde

"There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you."

Paramahansa Yogananda

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"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

Laurence J. Peter

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."
Henry David Thoreau

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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"My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."

Aristotle

"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."

Khalil Gibran

"Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity."
Khalil Gibran

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"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. "
Oprah Winfrey

"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. "
Marcus Tullius Cicero

"It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it."

Zora Neale Hurston

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

Albert Schweitzer

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Anais Nin

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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

Charles Caleb Colton

"Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness."

Euripides

"Never have a companion that casts you in the shade."

Baltasar Gracian

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

Baltasar Gracian

"You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal."

Elizabeth Taylor

"Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart."

Washington Irving

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."

Walter Winchell

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."

Octavia E. Butler

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."

Katherine Mansfield

"Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins."

Charles Eastman

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."

E. W. Howe

"My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of."

Jodie Foster

"The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares."

Henri Nouwen

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

Baltasar Gracian

"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

Hilaire Belloc

"Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't."

Judy Holliday

"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."

Robert Hall

"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."

Marlene Dietrich

"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!"

Doug Larson

"When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."

E. W. Howe

"The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights."

Giotto di Bondone

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely."

Pam Brown

"Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts."

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."

Petrarch

"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."

Emil Ludwig

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

Saint Teresa of Avila

"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk."

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

“Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.”

― Epicurus, A Guide To Happiness

Amazing Life Quotes to Help Your Overcome The Challenges Of Life

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Life Quotes

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

― Louisa May Alcott

“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
― Ruth Reichl

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

“Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.”
― Colleen Hoover, Slammed

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

“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 , La Vieillesse

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
― Tom Clancy

“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, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
― Charles Schultz

“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, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“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, The Truth About Forever

“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
― Gustave Flaubert

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“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

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
― Antonio Porchia

“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, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
― Mark Twain

“A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

“Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

“Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.”
― Nicole Sobon, Program 13

“Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature

“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, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance.”
― Osho Rajneesh, Everyday Osho: 365 Daily Meditations for the Here and Now

“Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
― Henry Rollins

“Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.”
― Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho

“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours..”
― Thoreau, Henry David

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Vivian Greene

“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
― Will Smith

“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
― Alan Watts

“It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844

“Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.”
― Janet Evanovich

“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight

“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously.”
― Tom Robbins

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”
― Tupac Shakur

“Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.”
― sidney sheldon

“It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”
― Robert T. Kiyosaki

“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

Quotes About Books And Reading

2020-05-19T04:58:00.002-04:00

Quotes About Books And Reading

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“Sometimes a book about other people’s problems is way better than your own.”
― Kelly Harms, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

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“A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

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"Well-read people are less likely to be evil."
Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope

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"A good library will never be to neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them."

Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

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“′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read.”

― Mark Twain

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“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

― Oscar Wilde

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

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“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

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“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.”
― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense

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“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You

“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.”
― Amanda Cross

“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

Maryanne Wolf

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
― Hermann Hesse

“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
― Neil Gaiman

“It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”
― John Waters, Role Models

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
― Proust-M

“The problem with books is that they end.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”
― Susan Wiggs

“A book is a device to ignite the imagination.”
― Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

“A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
― P. J. O'Rourke

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”
― Anatole France

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Wonderful Inspirational Quotes to Help You Create Positive Outlook About Life

2020-05-03T13:24:00.017-04:00

Wonderful Inspirational Quotes To Help You Create Positive Outlook About Life

“Don't let the bastards grind you down.”

― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”

― Harvey Fierstein

“Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

― Moliere

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

― Henry David Thoreau

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

― Walt Whitman

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”

― Norman Vincent Peale

“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”

― Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”

― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophren

“If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”

― Nora Roberts

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”

― Galileo Galilei

“There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.”

― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”

― Horton Foote

“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”

― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.”

― Maya Angelou

“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.”

― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”

― Rumi

“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”

― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.”

― Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?”

― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”

― C.S. Lewis

“Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.”

― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”

― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”

― Tupac Shakur

“Life is short, precious, and should not be wasted.
Everyone has a chance at it. We’re equals after all.
There are no pawns, no kings, and no queens.
We’re all humans and we all have the same value.”

― Cristelle Comby, Blind Chess

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“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, The Light in the Heart

“There is no such thing as a "broken family." Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.”
― C. JoyBell C.

"Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill. "

Neil Gaiman , Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” Victor Frankl

"When you go through a hard period, when every thing seems to oppose you, when you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place the course will divert!"

Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.”

― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway

“Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.”
― Tommy Lasorda

“When life takes away, something of greater value is always given in return.”
― Michael J. Fox

“It matters not how fast light may travel, darkness shall always be there awaiting its arrival.”
― Mark W Boyer

“A flower earns its honor in the dirt.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn't like it. Life isn't perfect.”
― Ann Marie Frohoff

“To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned.”
― Edward Bulwer Lytton

“Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.”
― Margaret Mead

“Light has nowhere to hide in the dark.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Bring up the past only if it will help to build the future, otherwise its best to be left to sleep”
― Cllr Tahir Khan - Luton

“The only thing wrong with trying to please everyone is that there's always at least one person who will remain unhappy. You.”
― Elizabeth Parker, Bark Out Loud! Motivational Quotes Inspired by Dogs

“One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.”
― Anais Nin

“Recovery is full of ups and downs.
There is no such thing as a linear life.
But you can always turn your setbacks into setups to come back stronger.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“There are many rivers that we cross in our lifetime, unfortunately some of those rivers just don't have bridges.”
― John R. Gouin

“If luck has not yet knocked your gate, change the gate”
― Qaiser Abbas - Author of 'Tick Tick Dollar

“It is better moving up to your goal and falling than not falling doing nothing”
― Qaiser Abbas - Author of 'Tick Tick Dollar

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.”
― Walt Disney Company, Mulan

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

“Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
― George Herman Ruth

“Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
― David Richo

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
― Leo F. Buscaglia

“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther

“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.”
― Mary Oliver, Wild Geese

“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
― Mary Kay Ash

“In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but that you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
― J.K. Rowling

“If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.”
― Edith Södergran

“It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

“Never run from the enemy, tackle them”
― Victoria Addino

“Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.”
― Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before.”
― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“The fact that you are still alive assures you that God has something for you to accomplish.”
― Rodney Winters, Go Into the House

The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.

Vince Lombardi

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Henry David Thoreau

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Nido Qubein

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

Les Brown

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Henry Rollins

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Aeschylus

“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”
― Susan Polis Schutz

“Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.”
― Marvin J. Ashton

“Life is a gift. Don't forget to live it.”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice