Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.
There’s no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.
No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity’s sun rise.
Life consists of two days, one for you one against you. So when it’s for you don’t be proud or reckless, and when it’s against you be patient, for both days are test for you.
I don’t care,” I said, leaning my head back against the seat. “Can we just get lost and see where that lands us?
There are not enough days in forever to allow me to fully express the depth of my love for you.
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
It’s not the face, but the expressions on it. It’s not the voice, but what you say. It’s not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.
What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion.
When you spring to an idea, and decide it is truth, without evidence, you blind yourself to other possibilities.
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.
We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
Sometimes, as we’re stumbling along in the dark, we hit something good.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
Love stories are written in millimeters and milliseconds with a fast, dull pencil whose marks you can barely see, they are written in miles and eons with a chisel on the side of a mountiantop
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..
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.
Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.
Everyone kept telling me not to worry someone will do something. No one did so I became someone and did something.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Dream, Dream Dream
Dreams transform into thoughts
And thoughts result in action.
Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet.
Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
Anything that makes weak – physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man)
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
The whole summer lay ahead of us-time to rest, time to wait. And when the future comes-no matter what comes with it-I’ll be smarter. I’ll be stronger. I’ll be ready.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
From what we get, we can make a living. What we give; however, makes a life.
I do have a point to all this,” she continues. “There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we’re all your family.” She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. “You still have a family,” she whispers.
My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.