Quotes

Quotes


Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein
May you live every day of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
- George Orwell
No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key.
- Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
- Oscar Wilde
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
- May Sarton
Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes