Famous Quotes

"In his suicide note, Kurt Cobain wrote, "It's better to burn out than to fade away." He was quoting a Neil Young song about Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols. When I was twenty-four, I interviewed John Lennon. I asked him about this sentiment, one that pervades rock and roll. He took strong, outraged exception to it. "It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out, " he said. "I worship people who survive. I'll take the living and the healthy."

"Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."

"When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want."

"Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do."

"The future was one thing that could never be broken, because it had not yet had the chance to be anything."

"Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward."

"Everything you'll ever need to know is within you"

"Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give."

"People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there"

"Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love."

"A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind."

"Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours."

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

"that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive."

"Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken."

"Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct."

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."

"I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER"

"It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do."

"Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear."

"It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom."