Famous Quotes

"In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school...I'd still relish this moment...killing you."

"There are two kinds of secrets. The ones we keep from others and the ones we keep from ourselves."

"I felt the taste of mortality in my mouth, and at that moment I understood that I was not going to live forever. It takes a long time to learn that, but when you finally do, everything changes inside you, you can never be the same again. I was seventeen years old, and all of a sudden, without the slightest flicker of a doubt, I understood that my life was my own, that it belonged to me and no one else.I’m talking about freedom, Fogg. A sense of despair that becomes so great, so crushing, so catastrophic, that you have no choice but to be liberated by it. That’s the only choice, or else you crawl into a corner and die."

"...people with nothing to declare carry the most."

"That's the problem with memories: you can visit them, but you can't live in them."

"All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other."

"So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry"

"I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself."

"You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you."

"I am not my body. My body is nothing without me."

"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus."

"This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning."

"I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are."

"At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated."

"All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated."

"I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be."

"I don’t see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers."

"No one escapes from life alive."

"Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose."

"I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story."

"Happiness is not the absence of problems"

"If you have a goal, write it down. If you do not write it down, you do not have a goal - you have a wish."