Famous Quotes

"I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward."

"Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by."

"Participate in your dreams today. There are unlimited opportunities available with this new day. Take action on those wonderful dreams you've had in your mind for so long. Remember, success is something you experience when you act accordingly."

"Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you."

"It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness."

"Hide your craziness behind a beautiful smile. That's all you need."

"I don’t know what it means to live."

"Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt."

"I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval."

"But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward."

"Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it."

"I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery."

"We all know we're going to die"

"Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending."

"You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But you are not to interfere in their growth, in their potential. You are not to impose yourself upon them. They are not going to live in the same times, they are not going to face the same problems. They will be part of another world. Don´t prepare them for this world, this society, this time, because then you will be creating troubles for them. They will find themselves unfit, unqualified."

"All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it."

"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."

"He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious, the kind of person who believed that the others around him were so much more important than he was, who already believed he was letting everybody down. And he was honest, the kind of person that was naturally open about all he felt and wanted. Alec's virtues had made a trap for him; these two good qualities had collided painfully. He felt he could not be honest without disappointing everyone he loved. It was a hideous conundrum for him. It was as if the world had been designed to make him unhappy."

"What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is composed of nows," she says."

"People are successful because they think and act like successful people."

"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."

"Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple."