Life Quotes

There are only two lives we might live: our dream or our destiny. Sometimes they are one in the same, and sometimes they're not. Often our dreams are just a path to our destinies.

Glennon Doyle Melton

Good fiction doesn’t claim to mirror reality at all. It indicts reality by providing a paradigm of shape and order and justice—the way we all know things should be—without suggesting that’s how things really are. Good fiction is the mirage th...

P.S. Baber

Instead of looking outside for happiness, become the well of happiness within and share it with others instead.

Franklin Gillette

It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.

Derek Raymond

Because sometimes it’s just so good that it’s like all they have to do is touch you and, you are 50,000 degrees hot for them.

Lauren Blakely

Anand finished up his cola cube transaction. I stepped up and slammed three pound coins on the counter like an oppressed inner-city youth born with the skills of rhythm and rhyme.

Nikesh Shukla

Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.

Carlos Fuentes

The logic of the symbol does not express the experiment; it is the experiment. Language is the phenomenon, and the observation of the phenomenon changes its nature.

Carlos Fuentes

Nor is the limitation of what is sayable a limit to the doable: this last is the possibility of literature.

Carlos Fuentes

The thing is, being lonely is like walking in the cold without a coat. It’s uncomfortable, but eventually you go numb. Once you get used to not being lonely, though, the shock of going back is like having your down comforter yanked off at six o’c...

Maggie Hall

Aligning yourself with spiritual ideals that are bigger than you brings true emotional stability.

Franklin Gillette

When the peace in not inside, we seek it outside. When the peace is not outside, we turn inside. Whether there is internal peace or an internal storm, it spirals outward to everyone you see and everything you touch.

Franklin Gillette

Cuba changed you. I changed you. And you are changing me.

Life

I’m sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands,” Kitteredge said. “He’s a friend of the family.” So that’s it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.

Don Winslow

What the fuck is wrong with you? I screamed in my head – or maybe to my head.

Moxie Mezcal

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

J.K. Rowling

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

Blue Balliett

The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the tru...

Blue Balliett