Another Voice

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. -T.S. Eliot

Be Brave

Be glad. Be good. Be brave. -Eleanor H. Porter

Don't Edit

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. -Franz Kafka

What Books

You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read... -Keri Hulme

A Way With Words

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way. -Steve Martin

Smiley Faces

Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches. -Richelle E. Goodrich

Cake

Nobody gets everything in this life. I decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten. -Donald E. Westlake

Christmas

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. -Mary Ellen Chase

Under A Tree

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. -Roy L. Smith

A Garden

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. -Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sincere Ignorance

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -Martin Luther King Jr.

One Guy

All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same. -Marilyn Monroe

Comfort

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. -Aldous Huxley

Delicate Softness

When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. -Laurell K. Hamilton

Today

"What day is it?" "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh. -A.A. Milne

Debilitating

Carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it. -Katharine Graham

Travel

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Darkness

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too was a gift. -Mary Oliver

A Language

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. -Mark Twain

A Priority

Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. -Maya Angelou

Tired

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Some People

Some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson. And that's why they're here. -Danielle Steel

A More Perfect World

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist. -Guy de Maupassant

Open Your Heart

Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart. -Kate DiCamillo

One Word

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love. -Sophocles

Fairy-Tales

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. -Audrey Hepburn

No Winter

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. -Hal Borland

Exceptional

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. -Lorraine Hansberry

Whoever Is Around

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. -Kurt Vonnegut

Less Difficult

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? -George Eliot

Thinking Alike

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. -George S. Patton Jr.

Fall Together

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together. -Marilyn Monroe

Good Cards

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. -Robert Louis Stevenson

Bravery

Sometimes bravery is nothing more than the work of every day, the slow walk toward a better life. -Veronica Roth

Avoid The Trap

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. -Steve Jobs

Now

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. -Sylvia Plath

Black Holes

Black holes are where God divided by zero. -Albert Einstein

Two Evils

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. -Mae West

Gratitude

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, routine jobs into joy and ordinary opportunities into blessings. William Arthur Ward

Think

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. -Margaret Mead

You Knew

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew. -Arrigo Boito

A Story

You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written - behind your silence and your suffering. -Anne Rice

Animals

Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends. -George Bernard Shaw

Books

I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. -Jo Walton

The Best Portion

The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love. -William Wordsworth

Your Heart

Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds. -Rita Mae Brown

Wise

It is never too late to be wise. -Daniel Defoe

Cake

A party without cake is just a meeting. -Julia Child

Never

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires and a touch that never hurts. -Charles Dickens

Facing Up

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong. -Sarah Dessen

Inexhaustible Variety

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Brave

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing. -Emma Donoghue

The Dance

The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. - Alan Watts

Warriors

There must be those among us with whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. -Adrienne Rich

No Fixed Plans

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. -Lao Tzu

Freedom From Fear

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear. -Aung San Suu Kyi

What They Call You

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. -W.C. Fields

Two Steps Ahead

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead. -Fannie Flagg

Don't Freeze Up

Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up. Thomas Wolfe

Good Sentences

Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences. -Sylvia Plath

Funerals

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. -Yogi Berra

People Change

People change and forget to tell each other. -Lillian Hellman

Lunchtime

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. -Douglas Adams

Do It Now

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible. -Doris Lessing

Wrong

No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. -François de La Rochefoucauld

The More You Know

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. -Stephanie Perkins

When I Stopped

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself. -Paulo Coelho

One Syllable

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love. -Audrey Niffenegger

Rivers

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. -A.A. Milne

Really Look

So many things become beautiful when you really look. -Lauren Oliver

Misunderstood

To be great is to be misunderstood. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Odds

May the odds be ever in your favor! -Suzanne Collins

Try A Few

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things? -Charles M. Schulz

Reputation And Honor

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. -Lois McMaster Bujold

Just Stuff

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. -John Steinbeck

Your Love And Affection

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. -Sharon Salzberg

The Path

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

Conformity

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. -Rita Mae Brown

Beginning Of Love

The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves. -Thomas Merton

Creative Adult

The creative adult is the child who has survived. -Ursula K. Le Guin

Wrong Story

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. -Mo Willems

The Crack

Trust is like a mirror, you can fix it if it's broken, but you can still see the crack. -Lady Gaga

Possible

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible. -Norton Juster

Tell The Truth

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -Virginia Woolf

Wished

How much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do? -Ralph Ellison

Her Eyes

The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. -Audrey Hepburn

A Mind

Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. -Jeffrey Eugenides

Our Mothers

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. -Marguerite Duras

Ineffable

Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. -Douglas Adams

Wise Enough

I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had. -Margaret Mead

Rage

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -Dylan Thomas

Different

I am different, not less. -Temple Grandin

Greatness

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love. -Shmuley Boteach

Learning To Dance

Life isn't about finding shelter in the storm. It's about learning to dance in the rain. -Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Condiment

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. -Truman Capote

For And Against

You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against. -Laurie Halse Anderson

A Writer

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. -Thomas Mann

Always Some Beauty

I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself. -Anne Frank

Clearly Aware

Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all. -Vincent Van Gogh

One's Courage

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anaïs Nin

Changes

No it isn't strange / After changes upon changes / We are more or less the same / After changes / We are more or less the same. -Paul Simon

Wisdom

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. -Jimi Hendrix

A Bitch

I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. -Madonna

Owning Yourself

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. -Friedrich Nietzsche

A Difference

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. -Jane Goodall

A Dream

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. -John Lennon

Becoming Yourself

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. -Anna Quindlen

Nothing

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. -A.A. Milne

Seasons

Can I sail through the changing ocean tides? Can I handle the seasons of my life? -Stevie Nicks

My Dream

I dream my painting and I paint my dream. -Vincent Van Gogh

The Past

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't. -Becca Fitzpatrick

Fix Yourself

All you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect. -Rob Reiner

Silence

Silence makes the real conversation between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts. -Margaret Lee Runbeck

Wisdom

Don't gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver or gold. -Bob Marley

Heart Break

I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem. -Diana Gabaldon

Bad Luck

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. -Cormac McCarthy

Some Day

Some day when I'm awfully low, when the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you and the way you look tonight. -Dorothy Fields

A Small Step

Success will never be a big step in the future; success is a small step taken just now. -Jonatan Mårtensson

One More Time

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time. -Maya Angelou

Pretender

If you're a pretender come sit by my fire / For we have some flax golden tales to spin / Come in! Come in! -Shel Silverstein

Power

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. -Alice Walker

Three Rules

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. -W. Somerset Maugham

As I'm Told

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people. -Tamora Pierce

Live In The Sunshine

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Air

I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. -Margaret Atwood

Cats

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. -Terry Pratchett

Tangled

Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. -Ally Condie

Hell

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Fingertips

Do not touch me and keep your soul out of your fingertips... Die into me or don't come to me at all. -Oriah Mountain Dreamer

Dirty Feet

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. -Mahatma Gandhi

Be Strong

Better to be strong than pretty and useless. -Lilith Saintcrow

Once Children

All grown-ups were once children...but only a few of them remember it. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Bite

Dogs never bite me. Just humans. -Marilyn Monroe

The Ocean

And it's just like the ocean under the moon / Well, that's the same as the emotion that I get from you. -Carlos Santana

Just Cry

I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone. -Tina Fey

Demons

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels. -Tennessee Williams

You Just Have To Live

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live. -Natalie Babbitt

Real Heart

It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. -Clive Barker

No Woman

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it. -Elizabeth Peters

The Realist

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. -William Arthur Ward

Swimming Upward

You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. -Elizabeth Gilbert

Follow Your Bliss

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. -Joseph Campbell

Foolish Things

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette

Explore

Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. -Richard Feynman

Wanting Nothing

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. -Sylvia Plath

Kissing The Earth

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. -Thich Nhat Hanh

Pain

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none. -Lois Lowry

Cheese

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. -G.K. Chesterton

Small Joys

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. -Pearl S. Buck

No Faster Or Firmer

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books. -Irving Stone

Forever

Forever is composed of nows. -Emily Dickinson

Eccentric

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -Bertrand Russell

Have Faith

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman, have faith. There is yet time. -Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Invisible

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Pierce My Soul

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you. -Jane Austen

Flaws

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. -Augusten Burroughs

Fat

Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me. -J.K. Rowling

Inner Moonlight

Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. -Allen Ginsberg

Losing Love

And I see losing love / Is like a window in your heart / Everybody sees you're blown apart / Everybody feels the wind blow. - Paul Simon

Worth Loving

It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. -Cassandra Clare

Smiling

I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow. Simply because life is too short. -Santosh Kalwar

Two Memories

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that. -Amy Bloom

Cause Happiness

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. -Oscar Wilde

Each Friend

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -Anaïs Nin

Irresistible Desire

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -Robert Frost

Stories

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. -Cornelia Funke

Broken Glass

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. -Anton Chekhov

Who We Are

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it. -Jodi Picoult

Weeds

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them. -A.A. Milne

Electric Eel

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? -Cassandra Clare

Begin At The Beginning

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” -Lewis Carroll

Worry

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. -Corrie ten Boom

Chaos

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Rules

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun. -Katharine Hepburn

How Much Love

How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. -Shel Silverstein

Background Music

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music. -Annie Proulx

You Belong

You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. -F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tell The Truth

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you. -Stephanie Klein

The Meaning Of Friendship

If you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything. -Muhammad Ali

All The Power

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. -J.K. Rowling

Ourselves

None but ourselves can free our minds. -Bob Marley

A Brave Man

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others. -Veronica Roth

Too Many

There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough. -Irwin Shaw

Equally Terrifying

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. -Arthur C. Clarke

A Grand Thing

Through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. -Agatha Christie

The Harder You Try

It seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. -Henry Rollins

Choices

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you. -Gayle Forman

Denial

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. -Bill Watterson

I Lie

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me. -S.E. Hinton

Freedom

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. -Mahatma Gandhi

In The Moment

You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time. -Marie Lu

A Dream Come True

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. -Paulo Coelho

Remembering

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. -Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Old Friends

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Labyrinth

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. -John Green

Accept

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer. -Ellen DeGeneres

Chef's Salads

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things mixed together. -Lemony Snicket

The Paradox

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. -Daphne Rae

Above All

This above all: to thine own self be true. -William Shakespeare

I Refuse

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. -Maya Angelou

Heaven

I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there. -Oscar Wilde

Highest Potential

I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than the man himself. -Elizabeth Gilbert

Your Task

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. -Rumi

Courage

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. -E.E. Cummings

Two Amusements

Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world. -Voltaire

In A Dream

If you're happy in a dream, does that count? -Arundhati Roy

Conspired

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you. -Paulo Coelho

Start To Live

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. -Marilyn Monroe

Right Decision

Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make? -Terry Johnson

Not Knowing

Life is about not knowing, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. -Gilda Radner

Old Enough

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. -C.S. Lewis

Find A Way

What's meant to be will always find a way. -Trisha Yearwood

Some People

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. -Charles Bukowski

A Thousand Years

I have died every day waiting for you / Darling, don't be afraid I have loved you / For a thousand years - Christina Perri

Creativity

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -C.E.M. Joad

4 a.m.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. -Marlene Dietrich

Creating Yourself

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -George Bernard Shaw

If You Judge

If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. -Anonymous

Any Direction

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. -Dr. Seuss

Ordinary Acts

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. -Veronica Roth

Do What You Can

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. -Theodore Roosevelt

Its Source

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. -Anaïs Nin

What Else Matters

You may not be her first, her last, her only. She loved before. She may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? -Bob Marley

Real

"You love me. Real or not real?" I tell him, "Real.” -Suzanne Collins

All, A Few, None

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. -William Shakespeare

Bravery

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. -J.K. Rowling

The Wonder

...this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart. I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart). -E.E. Cummings

Questions

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. -Dr. Seuss

See Things

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -Anaïs Nin

Not Failed

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas A. Edison

Smile

Most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about. -Marilyn Monroe

Read

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. -Mark Twain

Judge

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. -Mother Teresa

Magic

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. -Roald Dahl

Write The Truth

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. -Margaret Atwood

The Thinks

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try! -Dr. Seuss

I Own Me

I own me, and therefore I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay. -Virginia Satir

May You Live

May you live every day of your life. -Jonathan Swift

The Space

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me. Tracee Ellis Ross

Smart As Whips

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy. -J.D. Salinger

Disconnect

I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like. -Kristen Schaal

Dream Big

It's better to dare to dream big and achieve half of your dreams than to dream small dreams and achieve all. -Bernard Kelvin Clive

Interpretation

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. -Susan Sontag

Share

Share your love, share you happiness, care for others; your wealth will be endless. -Debasish Mridha

Moments

I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments. -Samantha Bee

Suspicion

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion. -Stefan Zweig

Assumptions

Assumptions are quick exits for lazy minds that like to graze out in the fields without bother. -Suzy Kassem

Day Dreams

It's okay to keep your jobs, just don't quit your day dreams. -Beryl Dov

A Steady Hand

I want a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. -Shana Abe

Hand In Hand

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, they danced by the light of the moon. -Edward Lear

Respect

No matter how hard respect is to attain, it can be lost in an instant. -Jennifer A. Nielsen

Ask

Ask a sage, he will explain. Ask a fool, he will complain. -Toba Beta

Frame Of Mind

Happiness is a frame of mind, not a destination. -Janette Rallison

True Nature

The identity you're craving is an illusion. Your true nature has no identity. You're the universe. You contain all things! -Aniekee Tochukwu

The Heart

Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. -Zelda Fitzgerald

You Are

You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. -A.A. Milne

Always Rather

I would always rather be happy than dignified. -Charlotte Brontë

They Don't Teach

They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or poor. -Neil Gaiman

Angry People

Angry people are not always wise. -Jane Austen

Enough

...but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough. -Nicholas Sparks

Holding

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world. -Orhan Pamuk

Knowing, Mastering

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. -Lao Tzu

First Things First

A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with - that’s poverty - but how efficiently we can put first things first. -Victoria Moran

Smile Alone

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it. -Andy Rooney

One Friend

There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person. -Edith Wharton

Mastery

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all. -Michelangelo

Brilliant Things

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how. -Ann Patchett

Positive Vibration

It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters. -Amit Ray

Passion

Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what is in your heart. -JoLynne Valerie

Soul

Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul. -Charles F. Glassman

Again And Again

Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. -Banana Yoshimoto

Every Choice

The good among the great understand that every choice we make adds to the strength or weakness of our spirits. -Donald Van de Mark

Everything About Anything

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. -Julia Child

Control

You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you. -John C. Maxwell

Art Now

If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe! -Laurie Halse Anderson

The History

The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know. -Harry S. Truman

Learning

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. -Abigail Adams

True Leaders

True leaders, in short, do not make people into followers, but into other leaders. -John Holt

Who You Are

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman

In The Breath

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath. -Amit Ray

My True Religion

This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead. -Elizabeth Berg

An Awake Heart

An awake heart is like a sky that pours light. -Hafez

Sing, Laugh

We'll sing in the sunshine. We'll laugh every day. -Gale Garnett

Free As Birds

We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. -Swami Satchidananda

Stop Trying

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time. -Edith Wharton

Conscious Breathing

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. -Hanh Nhat Thich

Sitting In Silence

I have found my greatest moments of joy and peace just sitting in silence, then I take that joy and peace out into the world. -Holly Mosier

Your Own Heart

Why do you so earnestly seek the truth in distant places? Look for delusion and truth in the bottom of your own heart. -Ryokan

Rivers And Oceans

Our bodies are more like the rivers than like the rocks, more like the oceans than like machines. -Golda Poretsky

Cosmic Purpose

If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal. -Carl Sagan

Finding Love

Where you find truth is where you find your reflection, and where you find your reflection is where you find love. -Suzy Kassem

The Sides Of The Mountain

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. -Robert M. Pirsig

The Reason

We may run, walk, stumble, drive or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey. -Gloria Gaither

Shape Our Art

All that happens to us...all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art. -Jorge Luis Borges

Being Happy

Being happy isn't having everything in your life be perfect. Maybe it's about stringing together all the little things. -Ann Brashares

Tears

Live to the point of tears. -Albert Camus

Seriously

Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it. -Colleen Hoover

This New Day

This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Register

When I get married, I'm gonna register at Bank of America. -Chelsea Handler

State Of Solitude

It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship. -Stephen Richards

Today Well Lived

But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. -Kālidāsa

Going Back

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. -Lewis Carroll

The Task

You can't live anyone else's life. The task is to live yours and stop trying to copy one you think looks better. -Sandy Nathan

Here, Today

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. -David Nicholls

Done

Done is better than perfect. -Sheryl Sandberg

Just Three Things

...just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. -Tom Bodett

Like Magic

When you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic. -Laini Taylor

Yesterday, Today

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. -Rumi

Ourselves

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. -May Sarton

Press Play

You can't stop the future / You can't rewind the past / The only way to learn the secret / is to press play. -Jay Asher

Kind, Fierce, Brave

May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave. -Kate Forsyth

Coming Back

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. -Terry Pratchett

Doors

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -Helen Keller

What To Do

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. -J.R.R. Tolkien

A Friend

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. -Linda Grayson

The Human Heart

To love is the supreme right of the human heart. -Debasish Mridha

Imperfect

Love is imperfect. Falling for someone's flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths. -Ashly Lorenzana

The Awe

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day. -Douglas Adams

My Mistakes

In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. -J.K. Rowling

Neither Long Nor Short

Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. -John Muir

Your Shoes

It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them. -Martina Boone

The Real Glory

The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it. -Vince Lombardi Jr.

Do Stuff

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. -Susan Sontag

The Storm

One thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. -Haruki Murakami

To Abstain

The only way to fail at life is to abstain. -Johanna de Silentio

Smile At Me

If you smile at me I will understand, cause that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language. -Kantner and Stills

Let It All Pass

...nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. -May Sarton

Sit And Wonder

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' -Kurt Vonnegut

Take The Power

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

Beginnings

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -Dan Wilson, Semisonic

Kissings

The sunlight claps the earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea: what are all these kissings worth, if thou kiss not me? -Percy Bysshe Shelley

Patience

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wild Geese

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese... -Mary Oliver

Letting Go

Letting go means realizing that some people are a part of your history but not a part of your destiny. -Steve Maraboli

Accepting

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. -Flannery O'Connor

Lucky Enough

...if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. -Stephen Hawking

Never Tire

May Goodness inspire your Deepest Desires. Through all that you Reach For, May your arms Never Tire. -D. Simone

Kinder

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight? Always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary. -J. M. Barrie

What Is Important

What is important is not to live in fear. The most dangerous thing is to give up and lose hope. -Queen Rania of Jordan

Grief

"Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you." -John Green

Procrastination

One thing that's good about procrastination is that you always have something planned for tomorrow. -Gladys Bronwyn Stern

I Love You

There are never enough "I love you's." -Lenny Bruce

Choose

Choose to let go. Choose dignity. Choose to forgive yourself. Choose to forgive others. Choose to see your value. -Shannon L. Alder

Apple Tree

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. -Martin Luther

Choices

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines. -Christine Feehan

Wisdom

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. -Hermann Hesse

Value

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others. -Simone de Beauvoir

I've Learned

I've learned... That being kind is more important than being right. -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Bolder

But time makes you bolder, even children get older, and I'm getting older...too. -Stevie Nicks

New Ending

Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can start over and make a new ending. -Chico Xavier

Far Greater

Reality might not match your grand thoughts. You might be far greater. -Vera Kasikasi

Join The Dance

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. -Alan W. Watts

Raw

...one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.” -C. JoyBell C.

Love Something

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. -Donald Miller

Destiny

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. -J.K. Rowling

It Matters

It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. -Steve Maraboli

Monuments

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments... -R.J. Palacio

Visible

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. -Tony Robbins