Famous Quotes

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

"Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."

"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains."

"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do"

"Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself."

"Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you."

"Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes."

"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."

"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."

"Tears are words that need to be written."

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."

"Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale."

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in."

"In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?"

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."