Famous Quotes

"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."

"A person's a person, no matter how small."

"What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."

"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."