Famous Quotes

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough"

"Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library."

"I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you."

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."

"How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."

"Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."

"They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!"

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

"There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats."

"There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be..."

"There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth."

"To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."

"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.This is all practice."

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution."

"The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you."

"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"Death thought about it.CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE."

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well."

"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."

"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."