Famous Quotes

"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."

"You can't outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don't play at all. and if u don't play u can't win."

"Anything under God's control is never out of control."

"No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope."

"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place"

"How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you."

"The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions."

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence"

"Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end."

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."