I love quotes, no matter where they’re from. Songs. Movies. TV-shows. People. Here are some quotes that I find special. Read, and be inspired.
”Well, yes, m’am, I do. I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I’ve got the air in my lungs, and a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen, or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge, and now here I am, on the grandest ship in the world, having champagne with you fine people. I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You never know what hand you’re gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you… to make each day count.” - Titanic
”I’ve been lying in this bed for close to a year, and I’ve had a lot of time to look back on my life. And the things that I remember best – those are the things I wasn’t supposed to do and I did them anyway…. The thing is: life is too damn short to be following these rules.” - Grey’s Anatomy
”Did you say it? ‘I love you. I don’t ever want to live without you. You changed my life.’ Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in ’cause this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow.” - Grey’s Anatomy
”The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. And then there are the choices that matter. Love or hate. To be a hero or to be a coward. To fight or to give in. To live. Or die. Live or die. That’s the important choice. And it’s not always in our hands.” - Grey’s Anatomy
”You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say. The things we should say. We speak in code, we send little messages. So now, plainly, simply, I want to say that I love you.” - Prison Break
”See, I’ve lived. I mean, I’ve really, really lived. I’ve failed, I’ve been devastated, I’ve been broken, I’ve gone to hell and back, and I’ve also known joy and passion, and I’ve had a great love. See, death for me is not justice. It’s the end of a beautiful journey. And I’m not afraid to die. The question is, are you? A life in prison, or an afterlife with your wife? Me or you? Your choice.” - Grey’s Anatomy
”It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no telling where you might be swept off to.” - Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring
”Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” - John Lennon
”If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” - Mark Twain
”Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain
”In the end we only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were scared to have and the decisions we waited too long to make. There comes a time in your life when you realise who matters, who doesn’t, who never did and who always will. So don’t worry about the people from your past, there’s a reason they didn’t make it to your future.” - Unknown
“Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.” - Vanilla Sky
”Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
”If you are just safe about the choices you make, you don’t grow.” - Heath Ledger
”The brain struggling to understand the brain is society trying to explain itself.” - Colin Blakemore
”You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind.”
”The heart holds answers the brain refuses to see.”
”I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.” - Albert Einstein
”The mind is like a parachute – it works only when it is open.” - Frank Zappa
”To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.” - Anatole France
”It has never been my object to record my dreams, just to realize them.” - Man Ray
”Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.” - William Dement
”Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.” – Christopher Morley
”Never a failure, always a lesson.”
”If you can dream it, you can be it.”
”Feel the fear and do it anyway.”
”I’m not good at future planning. I don’t plan at all. I don’t know what I’m doing tomorrow. I don’t have a day planner and I don’t have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.” - Heath Ledger
”Live one day at a time and make it a masterpiece.”
”If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn’t.” - Lyall Watson
”The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.” – William James
”Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” - Mark Twain
”Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” – Mark Twain
”Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” - Mark Twain
”I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” – Mark Twain
”I have this theory that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion, then it will start a chain reaction of the same. People will never know how far a little kindness can go.
It wasn’t until recently that I learned that the first, the second, and the third impressions can be deceitful of what kind of person someone is. For example, imagine you had just met someone, and you speak with them three times on brief everyday conversations. They come off as harsh, rude, stubborn, and an ignorant person. You base your judgment on just these three encounters. Let me ask you something…did you ever ask them what their goal in life is, what kind of past they came from, did they experience love, did they experience hurt, did you look into their soul and not just their appearance? Until you know them and not just their “type,” you have no right to shun them. You have not looked for their beauty, their good. You have not seen the light in their eyes. Look hard enough and you always find a light, and you can even help it grow, if you don’t walk away from those three impressions first.
I know that my codes of life may be different from yours, but how do you know that trust, compassion, and beauty will not make this world a better place to be in and this life a better one to live? My codes may seem like a fantasy that can never be reached, but test them for yourself, and see the kind of effect they have in the lives of people around you. You just may start a chain reaction.” - Rachel Scott
”Everyday, think as you wake up, ‘today I am fortunate to have woken up, I am alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others, to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others, I am going to benefit others as much as I can.’ ” - Dalai Lama
”My Dearest Allie. I couldn’t sleep last night because I know that it’s over between us. I’m not bitter any more, because I know that what we had was real. And if in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I’ll smile at you with joy and remember how we spent the summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love. The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds, and that’s what you’ve given me. That’s what I hope to give to you forever. I love you. I’ll be seeing you. ~ Noah.” - The Notebook
”Just because it’s not what you were expecting, doesn’t mean it’s not everything you’ve been waiting for.”
”Strangely, when the time was right, it all seemed to make sense. There’s a big difference in what you think you’re supposed to be and what you suddenly realize you are.” - Julianna Marguiles
”Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.” – Wally ”Famous” Amos
”We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” - Winston Churchill
”You’re alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.” – Barbara Hall
”The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.” - Ben Stein
”Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” - Aldous Huxley
”You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
”Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” – Vernon Sanders Law
”Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.” - Eddie Cantor
”Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” - Mahatma Gandhi
“We can never turn back the pages of time, though we may wish to relive a happy moment, or say goodbye just one last time, we never can, because the sands of time continue to fall, and we can’t turn the hourglass over.” - Unknown
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” - Herman Hesse
“There’s no need to miss someone from your past- There’s a reason they didn’t make it to your future” – Unknown
“There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.” – Unknown
“The Tao Te Ching says, When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need. Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God’s law.” – Mary Manin Morrissey
”If you have enough time to hate someone you don’t know, you have enough time to improve your own life.” - Denzel Washington
”Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest, who came first in your life or who cares the most. Its about who came & never left.”
”Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you.”
””I love you” takes three seconds to say it, three hours to explain it, and a lifetime to prove it.”
”Never reject anybody in your life. Remember: “Good people give you happiness & bad people give you experience.”
”The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re still alive.”
”Being with the wrong people is like wearing too tight shoes. So hard to fit in, yet it hurts at the end.”
”Facebook: because who doesn’t want tons of fake friends, unbiological siblings, & being married whether or not it’s legal.”
”Moving on is not about never looking back. Its taking a glance at yesterday and noticing how much you’ve grown since then.”
”You have to let people go. Everyone who’s in your life are meant to be in your journey, but NOT all of them are meant to stay there.”
”Trials: not the reason to give up but a challenge to improve yourself. Difficulties: not an excuse to back out but an inspiration to move on.”
”You will never be happy if you don’t stop looking back, if you can’t let go of your past. Things can only haunt you if you let them.”
”Worrying is energy wasted on things you can’t control. Leave everything in God’s hands. Pray more, think less.”
”There’s only one person who can make you smile when you cry. And that person is actually the one who makes you cry.”
”Love yourself. Because somewhere, somehow, there’s someone who’d kill to be YOU.”
”Expecting someone to be perfect is like expecting the sea to be sweet, ice to be hot, rainbow to be black & white.”
”NEVER make somebody your everything, because when they’re gone you’ve got nothing.”
”Love can hurt you sometimes. But the only way to get over it is to forget and accept the reality. If someone is gone, there comes a new one.”
”Never be afraid to try something new. Because life gets boring when you stay within the limits of what you already know.”
”Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.”
”People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. How strong you stand is what MAKES you.”
”Keep your words short and sweet, because you’ll never know which ones you’ll have to eat.”
”When you judge someone else, it doesn’t define who they are, it defines who you are.”
”We do not fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence. That we will disappear without a trace.”
”Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
”If I knew yesterday what I know today, where would I be tomorrow? I won’t let my soul slide away, I’d do whatever it takes. ause this time’s only borrowed. I got one life, one life, one life and I’m gonna live it” – James Morrison – One Life
”You say the more you think you know what’s right, the less you do what you feel inside. So I won’t pretend that I always know, I just follow my heart wherever it goes. And I may not always get it right, but at least I’m living ’cause I’ve only got this one life.” – James Morrison – One Life
”Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” - James Dean
”Sometimes you have to be really high, to see how small you really are.” - Felix Baumgartner
”We live to conquer fears and pursue dreams, may our attempts and accomplishments progress humankind.” – Felix Baumgartner
