Famous Quotes

"Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you."

"So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will vow never to become so? To children, the world and everything in it is new, something that gives rise to astonishment. It is not like that for adults. Most adults accept the world as a matter of course. This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. To him or her, the world continues to seem a bit unreasonable - bewildering, even enigmatic. Philosophers and small children thus have an important faculty in common. The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder…"

"We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy."

"Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade..."

"Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things."

"How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life."

"We all make choices, but in the end our choices make us."

"My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here."

"Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy."

"And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves."

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather."

"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else."

"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often."

"People are the most difficult thing in the world to change"

"She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they told lies and they implied there were endings when in reality there were no endings, everything just went on and on and on."

"The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good."

"You don't put your life into your books, you find it there."

"You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ."

"A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world."

"Distance sometimes lets you know who is worth keeping, and who is worth letting go."

"Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion."