“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
— Anonymous“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
— Walt Whitman“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
— John Keats“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
— Marcus Aurelius“There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.'No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.”
— Dalai Lama XIV“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
— Brian Selznick“None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.”
— Paulo Coelho“Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”
— Roy T. Bennett“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
— Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins“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.”
— Maya Angelou“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“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
— John Wooden“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
— James Dean“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
— Marilynne Robinson“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”
— Joseph Campbell“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
— J.K. Rowling“The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like.”
— Sanober Khan“Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he’d never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.”
— Leigh Bardugo“The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
— Roy T. Bennett“She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.”
— robert m drake“No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.”
— Sigmund Freud“Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success.”
— Roy T. Bennett“That's everyone's dream, isn't it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.”
— Cassandra Clare“There is no failure except in no longer trying.”
— Elbert Hubbard“Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re willing to be.”
— robert m drake“How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.”
— Roy T. Bennett“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
— Napoleon Hill“A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.”
— robert m drake“Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.”
— Criss Jami“Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.”
— robert m drake“I am not worried, Harry, said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. I am with you.”
— J.K. Rowling“Argue not concerning God,…re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul…”
— Walt Whitman“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero“If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.”
— robert m drake“Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.”
— St. Augustine of Hippo“I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER”
— Warren Ellis“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
— Confucius“Sometimes a little discomfort in the beginning can save a whole lot of pain down the road.”
— Wendelin Van Draanen“What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.”
— Norman Vincent Peale“Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.”
— robert m drake“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”
— Amit Kalantri“Suddenly, everything was beautiful. The way she viewed the world was nothing more but a reflection of herself.”
— robert m drake“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
— Anonymous“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”
— Ernest Hemingway“One wordFrees us of all the weight and pain of life:That word is love.”
— Sophocles“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
— W. Somerset Maugham“You are my life now.”
— Stephenie Meyer“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“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
— Laurell K. Hamilton“Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.”
— Cassandra Clare