Life
Quotes - Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy
“It's
everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don't know — not wrong,
or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and
— sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like
that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way.”
―
J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“Don’t
worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of
intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and
become who they’re destined to be.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“I
wish to weep
but
sorrow is
stupid.
I
wish to believe
but
belief is a
graveyard.”
―
Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“Be
the positive impact on the lives of others.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Our
revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I
foretold you, were all spirits and
Are
melted into air, into thin air:
And,
like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The
cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The
solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea,
all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And,
like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave
not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As
dreams are made on, and our little life
Is
rounded with a sleep.”
―
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“Life
is a gift. Don't forget to live it.”
―
Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything
“May
Light always surround you;
Hope
kindle and rebound you.
May
your Hurts turn to Healing;
Your
Heart embrace Feeling.
May
Wounds become Wisdom;
Every
Kindness a Prism.
May
Laughter infect you;
Your
Passion resurrect you.
May
Goodness inspire
your
Deepest Desires.
Through
all that you Reach For,
May
your arms Never Tire.”
― D.
Simone
“and
when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”
―
Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer's Life
“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.”
―
Sir Winston Churchill
“When
you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s
what this storm’s all about.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“One
half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.”
―
Jane Austen, Emma
“When
you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the
sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still
sleeps.”
―
John Lennon
“I
have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily
life.”
―
Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing
“Just
remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You
might want to think about that.
You
forget some things, dont you?
Yes.
You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
―
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
“For
someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and
broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression
on people's faces.”
―
Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
“It's
no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all
your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But
you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all
your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come.
But they've got to come. You can't force them.”
―
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“Strange,
I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very
same time.”
―
Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
“Despair
is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll
always find despair.”
―
Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
“Growing
up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals,
standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around
and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like
that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in
love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life.
You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never
materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals
and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you
have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a
second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means
that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you
have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head,
those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
