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| Life Is like A Camera - Focus - Capture - Develop. And If Things Don't Work Out, Take Another Shot! |
- “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
- “Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.” ? ― Marie Lu, Legend
- “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ? ― Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
- “Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.” ? ― Neil Gaiman
- “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” ? ― Jonathan Safran Foer
- “Why fit in when you were born to stand out?” ? ― Dr. Seuss
- “Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.” ? ― Dr. Seuss
- “Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.” ? ― Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel
- “I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.” ? ― Mark Twain
- “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” ? ― Mark Twain
- “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ? ― Nora Ephron
- “As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.” ? ― John Lennon
- “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.” ? ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
- “Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.” ? ― Marilyn Monroe
- “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ? ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
- “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” ? ― Robert Frost
- “But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.” ? ― Daphne du Maurier
- “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ? ― Albert Einstein
- “Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.” ? ― Walt Disney Company
- “Being crazy isn't enough.” ? ― Dr. Seuss
- “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ? ― Albert Einstein
- “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” ? ― Winston S. Churchill
- “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” ? ― Joseph Brodsky
- “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.” ? ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
- “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ? ― Oprah Winfrey
- “Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” ? ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
- “Bran thought about it. 'Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?' 'That is the only time a man can be brave,' his father told him.” ? ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
- “I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.” ? ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” ? ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
- “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” ? ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.” ? ― Maya Angelou
- “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.” ? ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- “Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.” ? ― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
- “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. ? ― Albert Einstein
- "Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity.'" LIFE Magazine (2 May 1955) p. 64” ? ― Albert Einstein
- “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” ? ― Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.” ? ― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
- “Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.” ? ― Haruki Murakami
- “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” ? ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
- “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” ? ― Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi
- “Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.” ? ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
- “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” ? ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
- “That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” ? ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
- “I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.” ? ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
- “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” ? ― William Goldman, William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays
- “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” ? ― Gabriel García Márquez
- “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?” ? ― Mark Twain
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.” ? ― Socrates
- “Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” ? ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
- “There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.” ? ― Irwin Shaw
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| Life Is like A Camera - Focus - Capture - Develop. And If Things Don't Work Out, Take Another Shot! |
- “Stupid people are dangerous.” ? ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
- “I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person.” ? ― Audrey Hepburn
- “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” ? ― Arthur C. Clarke
- “Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.” ? ― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City
- “My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.” ? ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” ? ― Mahatma Gandhi
- “I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.” ? ― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
- “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.” ? ― Christopher Paolini, Eragon
- “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” ? ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
- “Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.” ? ― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
- “I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.” ? ― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
- “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.” ? ― Mark Twain, The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain
- “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...” ? ― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
- “Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.” ? ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
- “…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff.’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.” ? ― John Green
- “The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.” ? ― Marilyn Monroe
- “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” ? ― Albert Camus
- “Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” ? ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” ? ― Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” ? ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing
- “It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.” ? ― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
- “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ? ― Bob Marley
- “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” ? ― James Baldwin
- “If you are going through hell, keep going.” ? ― Winston S. Churchill
- “I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.” ? ― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
- “Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” ? ― Mahatma Gandhi
- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ? ― Pablo Picasso
- “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” ? ― J.K. Rowling
- “My ambition is handicapped by laziness” ? ― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
- “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” ? ― William Faulkner
- “Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.” ? ― Neil Gaiman, A Game of You
- “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ? ― Nelson Mandela
- “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” ? ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman's Odyssey
- “I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” ? ― Oscar Wilde
- “Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” ? ― Plato
- “You have to die a few times before you can really live.” ? ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ? ― Eleanor Roosevelt
- “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.” ? ― Winston S. Churchill
- “It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ? ― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
- “No medicine cures what happiness cannot.” ? ― Gabriel García Márquez
- “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” ? ― Leonardo da Vinci
- “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” ? ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
- “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.” ? ― Mark Twain
- “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” ? ― Joan Crawford
- “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” ? ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- “You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” ? ― Friedrich Nietzsche
- “I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” ? ― Agatha Christie
- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ? ― George Orwell, 1984
- “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ? ― Sigmund Freud
- “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, Crime and Punishment
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