Quotes

There's no greater show on earth than observing human nature - Benny Bellamacina, Little Luigi: A Musical Adventure

Your Life Is Happening Right Now: Don't let procrastination take over your life. Be brave and take risks. Your life is happening right now. - Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment. - Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. - Vince Lombardi Jr.

What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. “What did you do?” This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter’s grip, though his hands chafe. “What did you do?” I scream. “You die, I die too” Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. “I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions. - Veronica Roth

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

Guilt is a feeling that you owe a debt that you're not paying. - Stefan Molyneux

My experiences have taught me that things rarely improve with a simple change of scenery. - Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent. - Jim Butcher, Dead Beat

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. - Michael J. Fox

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. - Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

You can’t turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you’ve created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can’t see it anymore. - Katherine Allred, The Sweet Gum Tree

Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation! - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it. - Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give. - C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause. - Arthur Schopenhauer

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged - Heinrich Heine

The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot. - Criss Jami, Killosophy