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Memorable Famous Quotes Quotations Sayings Proverbs Maxims Teachings
Life Is like A Camera - Focus - Capture - Develop. And If Things Don't Work Out, Take Another Shot!

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  1. “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” ? ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. “It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.” ? ― Bill Watterson
  3. “Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.” ? ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
  4. “Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.” ? ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
  5. “You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.” ? ― Olin Miller
  6. “I don't want to die without any scars.” ? ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
  7. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” ? ― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
  8. “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” ? ― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
  9. “Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.” ? ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay
  10. “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” ? ― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
  11. “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.” ? ― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
  12. “She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.” ? ― Louisa May Alcott, Work: A Story of Experience
  13. “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.” ? ― Maya Angelou
  14. “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).” ? ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
  15. “Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up” ? ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
  16. “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ? ― Mahatma Gandhi
  17. “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” ? ― Mortimer J. Adler
  18. “You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't know how I could have lived without you for as long as I have.” ? ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
  19. “Resist much, obey little.” ? ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
  20. “What happens when people open their hearts?" "They get better.” ? ― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
  21. “No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.” ? ― C.S. Lewis
  22. “Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.” ? ― Raymond Carver
  23. “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” ? ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
  24. “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” ? ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
  25. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” ? ― Mark Twain
  26. “Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.” ? ― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief
  27. “You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” ? ― Friedrich Nietzsche
  28. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” ? ― Mahatma Gandhi
  29. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” ? ― George Burns
  30. “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” ? ― Stephen King
  31. “Who said nights were for sleep?” ? ― Marilyn Monroe
  32. “Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.” ? ― Terry Pratchett
  33. “People haven't always been there for me but music always has.” ? ― Taylor Swift
  34. “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.” ? ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
  35. “Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!” ? ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
  36. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” ? ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
  37. “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” ? ― William Faulkner
  38. “I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.” ? ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
  39. “None but ourselves can free our minds.” ? ― Bob Marley
  40. “Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.” ? ― Margaret Mitchell
  41. “It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.” ? ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
  42. “You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts...but you cannot deny he's got style...” ? ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  43. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.” ? ― Muhammad Ali
  44. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart” ? ― Helen Keller
  45. “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.” ? ― J.K. Rowling
  46. “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.” ? ― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress
  47. “Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ? ― Robert Louis Stevenson
  48. “I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.” ? ― Anne Tyler
  49. “Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.” ? ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
  50. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” ? ― Confucius
Memorable Famous Quotes Quotations Sayings Proverbs Maxims Teachings
Life Is like A Camera - Focus - Capture - Develop. And If Things Don't Work Out, Take Another Shot!
  1. “But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.” ? ― Martin Luther King Jr.
  2. “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” ? ― Timothy Leary
  3. “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.” ? ― Rudyard Kipling
  4. “I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.” ? ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
  5. “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.” ? ― Alexander Pope
  6. “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.” ? ― Kahlil Gibran
  7. “What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.” ? ― Neil Gaiman, American Gods
  8. “Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” ? ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
  9. “If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.” ? ― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
  10. “Angry people are not always wise.” ? ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  11. “A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” ? ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
  12. “I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.” ? ― Edgar Allan Poe
  13. “Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.” ? ― Albert Einstein
  14. “Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.” ? ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
  15. “If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.” ? ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
  16. “Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wrong.” ? ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth
  17. “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ? ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  18. “It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.” ? ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
  19. “Fear cuts deeper than swords.” ? ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
  20. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” ? ― Maya Angelou
  21. “Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.” ? ― Albert Schweitzer
  22. “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” ? ― Flannery O'Connor
  23. “I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.” ? ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
  24. “We live for books.” ? ― Umberto Eco
  25. “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.” ? ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
  26. “God has no religion.” ? ― Mahatma Gandhi
  27. “War is what happens when language fails.” ? ― Margaret Atwood
  28. “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” ? ― Charles Bukowski

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