Famous Quotes

"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."

"My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada."

"Without music, life would be a blank to me."

"Life is too short when you think of the length of death"

"Life is but a day"

"Sharing tales of those we've lost is how we keep from really losing them."

"I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end."

"If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell."

"Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind."

"No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement."

"Failures are the stairs we climb to reach success."

"The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."

"All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance."

"Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones."

"Pulvis et umbra sumus. It's a line from Horace. 'We are dust and shadows'. Appropriate, don't you think?" Will said. "It's not a long life, killing demons; one tends to die young, and then they burn your body - dust to dust, in the literal sense. And then we vanish into the shadows of history, nary a mark on the page of a mundane book to remind the world that once we existed at all."

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."]"

"Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever."

"All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused."

"Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it."

"Changing is what people do when they have no options left."

"In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things."

"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."