Famous Quotes

"When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong."

"I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki"

"We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without."

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

"True kindness isn't something we're born with. It's something we have to work at. Not everyone has it. But I think everyone has the potential. Sometimes you just have to look really close before you can tell it's there."-Kyoko"

"Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky."

"Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental stomach - if you have such a thing - is strong as an ostrich's; the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation; close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind; in time, after your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob."

"Don't be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and dumped their problems onto the floor, when they saw what everyone else's problems were, they'd be scrambling to get their own problems back before someone else got to them first."

"With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying."

"The revolution is not an apple that falls when ripe. You have to make it fall."

"It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself."

"We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature."

"It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise."

"Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge."

"He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip."

"Realize that everything connects to everything else."

"Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them."

"Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house."

"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."

"A path is made by walking on it."

"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world."

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."