January 9th, 2018 | Updated on March 18th, 2020
1. “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”-Anais Nin
2. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”-Ayn Rand
3. “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”-Albert Einstein
4. “Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”-A.A. Milne
5. “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”-Charles Bukowski
6. “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”-Charles Bukowski
7. “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”-Daphne du Maurier
8. “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”-Bob Marley
9. “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”-Charles Bukowski
10. “You have to die a few times before you can reallylive.”-Charles Bukowski
11. “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”-Anne Rice
12.“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”-Gayle Forman
13. “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14. “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”-Dan Brown
15. “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”-Anne Tyler
16. “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”-Charles Bukowski
17. “Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. “Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”-A.A. Milne
19. “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”-Harper Lee
20. “You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”-Annie Proulx
21. “Books. Cats. Life is Good.”-Edward Gorey
22. “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”-Charles Bukowski
23. “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”-Friedrich Nietzsche
24. “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”-David Mitchell
25. “Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”-David Foster Wallace
26. “There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. People so tired mutilated either by love or no love. People just are not good to each other one on one. The rich are not good to the rich. The poor are not good to the poor.We are afraid.Our educational system tells us that we can all be big-ass winners. It hasn’t told us about the gutters or the suicides. Or the terror of one person aching in one place alone untouched unspoken to watering a plant.”-Charles Bukowski
27. “We all have our time machines, don’t we. Those that take us back are memories…And those that carry us forward, are dreams.”-H.G. Wells
28. “No, I’m just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.”-Cassandra Clare
29. “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”-Charles Bukowski
30. “There are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it’s too late and there’s nothing worse than too late”-Charles Bukowski
31. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”-C.S. Lewis
32. “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.”-Clare Boothe Luce
33. “If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose” -Charles Bukowski
34. “I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”-Gayle Forman
35. “If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.” -Chinua Achebe
36. “Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t.” -Bill Nye
37. “The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.” -Ernest Hemingway
38. “I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.” -A.A. Milne
39. “Sometimes,’ said Pooh, ‘the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.” -A.A. Milne
40. “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.” -Gilda Radner
41. “You’re alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn’t lived it?” -Edward Albee
42. “Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted”-Charles Bukowski
43. “Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”-Cassandra Clare
44. “The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.”-Audrey Hepburn
45. “And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”-George Gordon Byron
46. “Maybe some people just aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It’s like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that’s why they’re here. You’ll have that gift forever.”-Danielle Steel
47. “The helpful thought for which you look is written somewhere in a book.”-Edward Gorey
48. “We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”-D.H. Lawrence
49. “Creativity is intelligence having fun.”-Albert Einstein
50. “Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”-E.Y. Harburg
51. “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”-Alan W. Watts
52. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”-Deepak Chopra
53. “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”-Carl Sandburg
54. “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”-Aldous Huxley
55. “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald
56. “If you work really hard, and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”-Conan O Brien
57. “Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”-Confucius
58. “No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.”-Eugene Field
59. “Whatever you’re meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”-Doris Lessing
60. “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”-H.P. Lovecraft
61. “Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”-Brian Jacques
62. “Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”-Fannie Flagg
63. “It is never too late to be wise.”-Daniel Defoe
64. “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”-Gustave Flaubert
65. “Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”-Evelyn Waugh
66. “I get a warm feeling among my books.”-Anthony Powell
67. “When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”-George R.R. Martin
68. “I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.”-Charles Bukowski
69. “A library is infinity under a roof.”-Gail Carson Levine
70. “As it has been said:Love and a cough cannot be concealed.Even a small cough. Even a small love.”-Anne Sexton
71. “I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”-Charles Bukowski
72. “Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
73. “No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”-Friedrich Nietzsche
74. “Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”-Carol Shields
75. “Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”-Alex Haley
76. “The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”-Albert Camus
77. “If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”-George S. Patton Jr.
78. “Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”-Charles Bukowski
79. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”-Hal Borland
80. “You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”-F. Scott Fitzgerald
81. “I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”-Anais Nin
82. “My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.”-Ashleigh Brilliant
83. “the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”-Charles Bukowski
84. “Very few of us are what we seem.”-Agatha Christie
85. “Those who escape hell howevernever talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that.”-Charles Bukowski
86. “Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I’d decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”-Donald E. Westlake
87. “Only you can control your future.”-Dr. Seuss
88. “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”-Emily Bronte
89. “For to know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”-Geraldine Brooks
90. “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”-Dr. Seuss
91. “There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”-George Carlin
92. “In the world I am always a stranger. I do not understand its language.It does not understand my silence”-Bei Dao
93. “Be glad. Be good. Be brave.”-Eleanor H. Porter
94. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”-Edith Wharton
95. “I have for the first time found what I can truly love“I have found you. You are my sympathy“my better self“my good angel“I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”-Charlotte Bronte
96. “To die, it’s easy. But you have to struggle for life.”-Art Spiegelman
97. “The unfed mind devours itself.”-Gore Vidal
98. “You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.”-Carlos Castaneda
99. “She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”-Flannery O Connor
100. “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”-Frida Kahlo
101. “A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”-Charles Bukowski
102. “One must dare to be happy. ”-Gertrude Stein
103. “Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”-Donna Tartt
104. “There are three questions every woman should be able to answer yes to before they commit to a man. If you answer no to any of the three questions, run like hell.””Does he treat you with respect at all times? That’s the first question. The second question is, if he is the exact same person twenty years from now that he is today, would you still want to marry him? And finally, does he inspire to be a better person? You find someone you can answer yes to all three, then you’ve found a good man.”-Colleen Hoover
105. “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”-Edward Abbey
106. “We are surrounded by story.”-Alice McDermott
107. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”-David Levithan
108. “Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”-C.J. Cherryh
109. “I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.”-Dr. Seuss
110. “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.”-Albert Einstein
111. “Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”-Ernest Hemingway
112. “Life is a beautiful magnificent thing, even to a jellyfish.”-Charlie Chaplin
113. “People do not change, they are merely revealed.”-Anne Enright
114. “Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.”-Gregory Maguire
115. “I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”-Bob Newhart
116. “Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”-Audrey Niffenegger
117. “Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”-David Mitchell
118. “The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”-Erin Morgenstern
119. “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”-Emily Dickinson
120 .“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody-but-yourself.”-E.E. Cummings
121. “You will hear thunder and remember me,and think: she wanted storms…”-Anna Akhmatova
122. “I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air alive with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”-E.E. Cummings
123. “There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you.” -Charles Bukowski
124. “I don’t think there is any truth. There are only points of view. ”-Allen Ginsberg
125. “I am not interested in being original. I am interested in being true.”-Agostinho da Silva
126. “When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”-Albert Camus
127. “That was enterprising,” Will sounded nearly impressed.Nate smiled. Tess shot him a furious look. “Don’t look pleased with yourself. When Will says ‘enterprising’ he means ‘morally deficient.'” “No, I mean enterprising,” said Will. “When I mean morally deficient, I say, ‘Now, that’s something I would have done’.”-Cassandra Clare
128. “I suspect the most we can hope for, and it’s no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.”-Elizabeth Strout
129. “If the person you are talking to doesn’t appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.”-A.A. Milne
130. “I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”-Audrey Hepburn
131. “Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”-CzesÅ‚aw MiÅ‚osz
132. “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”-Cormac McCarthy
133. “Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don’t have questions, you’ll never find answers.”-Colleen Hoover
134. “Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”-Adeline Yen Mah
135. “And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”-Charles Dickens
136. “Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure they can be turned into wisdom.”-Cat Cora
137. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger€“ something better, pushing right back.”-Albert Camus
138. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”-Albert Einstein
139. “There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”-Anais Nin
140. “Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you’re a damned fool!”-Armistead Maupin
141. “In secret we met. In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive.”-George Gordon Byron
142. “Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”-Chelsea Handler
143. “I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”-A.A. Milne
144. “What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”-Chris Abani
146. “Books fall open, you fall in.”-David T.W. McCord
147. “I’m glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.”-Dr. Seuss
148. “There’s something ugly about the flawless.”-Dennis Lehane
149. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”-Amelia Earhart
150. “I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true”-A.A. Milne
151. “I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”-E.B. White
152. “How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”-Gore Vidal
