Pain
is Inevitable
“If
my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
―
Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
“First
they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to
burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
―
Nicholas Klein
“Don't
be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your
heart.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“I
believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent
than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always
triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I
believe that love is stronger than death.”
―
Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon
Thoughts On Common Things
“Isn't
it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
―
L.M. Montgomery
“You
can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You
have to go to them sometimes.”
―
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Hope
is the thing with feathers
That
perches in the soul
And
sings the tune without the words
And
never stops at all.”
―
Emily Dickinson
“You
can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as
what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you
feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for
forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Instead
of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can
create.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Pain
is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
―
haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“If
you're reading this...
Congratulations,
you're alive.
If
that's not something to smile about,
then
I don't know what is.”
―
Chad Sugg, Monsters Under Your Head
“The
mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of
heaven..”
―
John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Hell
is empty and all the devils are here.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“There
is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of
one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best
able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die,
Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
"
Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that
until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is
contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
―
Alexandre Dumas
“Always
do what you are afraid to do.”
―
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When
I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I
wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told
them they didn’t understand life.”
―
John Lennon
“Talent
hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
―
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Our
lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
―
Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the
World
“It
is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man
stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust
and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and
again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does
actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great
devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the
end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at
least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those
cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
―
Theodore Roosevelt
“The
world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still
there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with
grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
