Famous Quotes

"I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them"

"Ester asked why people are sad."That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."

"Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone."

"Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see"

"Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life."

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

"Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey."

"I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good."

"Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end."

"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore."

"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

"Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention."

"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wiseIf you can dream - and not make dreams your master;If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat those two impostors just the same;If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out toolsIf you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!"

"There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time."

"That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!"

"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you."

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

"A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

"It’s your life"

"Always remember people who have helped you along the way, and don’t forget to lift someone up."