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214 | “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” | famous_quote |
215 | “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.” | famous_quote |
216 | “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” | famous_quote |
217 | “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” | famous_quote |
218 | “He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can. He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break. Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give. Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there. Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.” | famous_quote |
219 | “A person's a person, no matter how small.” | famous_quote |
220 | “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” | famous_quote |
221 | “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” | famous_quote |
222 | “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” | famous_quote |
223 | “When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.” | famous_quote |
224 | “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” | famous_quote |
225 | “Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.” | famous_quote |
226 | “Jesus!" Luke exclaimed."Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling.” | famous_quote |
227 | “When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. 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 curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” | famous_quote |
228 | “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” | famous_quote |
229 | “I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.” | famous_quote |
230 | “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” | famous_quote |
231 | “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.” | famous_quote |
232 | “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” | famous_quote |
233 | “The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.” | famous_quote |
234 | “Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.” | famous_quote |
235 | “Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?” | famous_quote |
236 | “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” | famous_quote |
237 | “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” | famous_quote |
238 | “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” | famous_quote |
239 | “If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.” | famous_quote |
240 | “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” | famous_quote |
241 | “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” | famous_quote |
242 | “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” | famous_quote |
243 | “So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” | famous_quote |
244 | “Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” | famous_quote |
245 | “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” | famous_quote |
246 | “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.” | famous_quote |
247 | “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” | famous_quote |
248 | “Do you hate people?â€�“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.” | famous_quote |
249 | “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” | famous_quote |
250 | “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” | famous_quote |
251 | “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” | famous_quote |
252 | “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.” | famous_quote |
253 | “Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?""If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.” | famous_quote |
254 | “A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.” | famous_quote |
255 | “The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle.From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.” | famous_quote |
256 | “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.” | famous_quote |
257 | “If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” | famous_quote |
258 | “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” | famous_quote |
259 | “I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.” | famous_quote |
260 | “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.” | famous_quote |
261 | “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” | famous_quote |
262 | “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” | famous_quote |
263 | “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” | famous_quote |
264 | “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” | famous_quote |
265 | “I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead.""Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.” | famous_quote |
266 | “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” | famous_quote |
267 | “I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.” | famous_quote |
268 | “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” | famous_quote |
269 | “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.” | famous_quote |
270 | “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” | famous_quote |
271 | “With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.” | famous_quote |
272 | “Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.” | famous_quote |
273 | “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” | famous_quote |
274 | “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” | famous_quote |
275 | “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” | famous_quote |
276 | “It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.” | famous_quote |
277 | “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.” | famous_quote |
278 | “The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” | famous_quote |
279 | “And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” | famous_quote |
280 | “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” | famous_quote |
281 | “I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.” | famous_quote |
282 | “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” | famous_quote |
283 | “When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.” | famous_quote |
284 | “It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.” | famous_quote |
285 | “There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.” | famous_quote |
286 | “I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.” | famous_quote |
287 | “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” | famous_quote |
288 | “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there” | famous_quote |
289 | “Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” | famous_quote |
290 | “You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” | famous_quote |
291 | “In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” | famous_quote |
292 | “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!” | famous_quote |
293 | “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” | famous_quote |
294 | “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” | famous_quote |
295 | “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” | famous_quote |
296 | “We love the things we love for what they are.” | famous_quote |
297 | “Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.” | famous_quote |
298 | “Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.” | famous_quote |
299 | “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” | famous_quote |
300 | “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.” | famous_quote |
301 | “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” | famous_quote |
302 | “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” | famous_quote |
303 | “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.” | famous_quote |
304 | “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!” | famous_quote |
305 | “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.” | famous_quote |
306 | “I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer” | famous_quote |
307 | “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.” | famous_quote |
308 | “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.” | famous_quote |
309 | “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.” | famous_quote |
310 | “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.” | famous_quote |
311 | “So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” | famous_quote |
312 | “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.” | famous_quote |
313 | “Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.” | famous_quote |
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