Quotes Box!

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace, This Is Water 

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
― Albert Einstein 

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”
― Brian Tracy 

“When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody.”
― Ayn Rand

“Close cycles. Not because of pride or arrogance, but because that no longer fits your life”
― Paulo Coelho 

  “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― André Gide, Autumn Leaves 

 “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

 “Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley

 “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love 

 “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

 “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison, Cloud Nine 


“Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife 

 “I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
― Paul Simon

 “Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
― Abraham Lincoln

 “If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
― Amy Tan

 “The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
― Albert Schweitzer

 “Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”
― Charles M. Schulz

 “Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

 “Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
― Woody Allen

 “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”
― John Burroughs, Studies in Nature and Literature 

 “If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany 


  “There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid 

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder 


“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
― Henry Rollins

 “Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”
― Oscar Wilde

 “Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein


“It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”
― Marlene Dietrich

 “We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
― Sylvia Plath

 “Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie”
― Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride