Famous Quotes

"Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something."

"I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet."

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."

"Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you."

"I am a flawed person. A brook with many stones, a clear blue sky with many blackbirds. I have many shortcomings. A rainbow that’s not long enough, a starry night with clouds. But I can only be thankful to the God who loves me just this way, and I can only be grateful to the people in my life who accept the clear blue sky with many blackbirds and who are patient with the rainbow that isn’t long enough. And because of this, I am taught love, because of this I love my God, and I love these people."

"The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings."

"Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next."

"We don't receive wisdom"

"Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine."

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

"a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long."

"You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?"

"One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life."

"it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings."

"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!"

"no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith"

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time."

"Written words can also sing."

"If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse."

"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."