1. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
2. “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that
some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning,
middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the
moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to
happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.” ― Gilda Radner
3. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov
4. “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are
afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all
that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need
to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our
imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our
ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all
hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted
vision of people who embrace life.” ― John Lennon
5. “People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s salads,
with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a
vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.” ― Lemony Snicket
6. “Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.” ― Will Rogers
7. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw
8. “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To
never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of
life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to
its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is
simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try
and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.” ― Arundhati Roy
9. “Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man …
living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every
day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t
want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a
special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish
for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream,
until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and
he needs money.” ― George Carlin
10. “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books
are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m
not surprised some people prefer books.” ― Julian Barnes
11. “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their
feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s
bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that
pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re
afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their
pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You
feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry
it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of
you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them,
you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for
your right to feel your pain.” ― Jim Morrison
12. “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
13. “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…” ― John Lennon
14. “Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do
things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too
hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances
and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because
they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and
conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in
reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man
than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is
his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters
with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an
endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different
sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination
for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that
will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed
to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible
beauty.” ― Jon Krakauer
15. “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
16. “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened
to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on
television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.” ― Frank Zappa
17. “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our
courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point
in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet
ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is
more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our
destiny.” ― Paulo Coelho
18. “I like to keep my issues drawn, it’s always darkest before the dawn.” ― Florence Welch
19. “Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a
wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no
institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are
possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the
guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking
ourselves so damn seriously.” ― Tom Robbins
20. “When two people are under the influence of the most violent,
most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are
required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and
exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.” ― George Bernard Shaw
21. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t
resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let
things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu
22. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” ― Marcus Aurelius
23. “The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is
atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the
siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with
all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more
intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel
loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing
more.” ― Ayaan Hirsi Ali
24. “There are no random acts…We are all connected…You can no more
separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the
wind…” ― Mitch Albom
25. “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” ― Woody Allen
26. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity
under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a
time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down
and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn
and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather
them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a time to search and a
time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear
and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to
love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace.―Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
27. “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may
have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to
let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old
pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back
from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?” ― Mary Manin Morrissey
28. “Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support
group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.” ― Drew Carey
29. “You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and
that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the
number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and
you will die before you have truly awakened.” ― Jorge Luis Borges
30. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration
were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have
created the new level of living I now enjoy.” ― Anthony Robbins
31. “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they
are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a
very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a
tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that
which could have been their finest hour.” ― Winston Churchill
32. “His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the
dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than
the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction
and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of
flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been
effortless.” ― Ernest Hemingway
33. “Pain is a pesky part of being human, I’ve learned it feels like a
stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in
our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can’t be escaped. But then I
have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty,
tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to
the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when
you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have
wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that
will give us that wind against our faces.” ― C. JoyBell C.
34. “We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines,
don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space
and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your
universe, and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton
or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away
to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you
want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this
kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is
you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms,
your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told ‘no’, we’re
unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get
a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that
game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the
cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron
consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a
dying world.” ― Terence McKenna
35. “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to
think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and
all the friends I want to see.” ― John Burroughs
36. “Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.” ― Langston Hughes
37. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content” ― Helen Keller
38. “Fate loves the fearless.” ― James Russell Lowell
39. “I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us
open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually
turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we
see that we’re suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before.” ― C. JoyBell C.
40. “You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.” ― Goldie Hawn
41. “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those
who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness,
melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human
situation.” ― Graham Greene
42. “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the
cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their
heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit
ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found
it…” ― Wilferd Peterson
43. “People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a
sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but
through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as
when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.” ― Marcel Proust
44. “Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.” ― Steve Maraboli
45. “Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact
that although we are not at ease in this world, it is all we have, that
it is ours but that it is full of strife, so that all we can call our
own is strife; but even that is better than nothing at all, isn’t it?
And as you split the frost-laced wood with numb hands, rejoice that your
uncertainty is God’s will and His grace toward you that that is
beautiful, and a part of a greater certainty, as your own father always
said in his sermons and to you at home. And as the ax bites into the
wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the
confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and
still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing
to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember:
You will be dead and buried soon enough.” ― P. Harding
46. “That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected
twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all
shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory,
unhappiness a story.” ― Haruki Murakami
47. “If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their
request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to
dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes,
so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be
ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our
acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined
by this need to “explain,” which usually implies that the explanation be
“understood,” i.e. approved. Let your deeds be judged, and from your
deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person owes an
explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the
few who may have a justified claim for explanation.” ― Erich Fromm
48. “You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But
sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.” ― Ann Brashares
49. “There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond
which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy
comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness
that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to
the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes
to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it
came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining
after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through
the moonlight.” ― Jack London
50. “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives
roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the
sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the
earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes,
simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In
fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.” ― Osho
51. “Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in
a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake
is almost unnoticed.” ― Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni
52. “If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no
one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to
touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love,
which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the
joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.” ― Mitsugi Saotome
53. “Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing,
to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against
me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or
despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in
and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as
in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is trouble.” ― Andrew Murray