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| Life Is like A Camera - Focus - Capture - Develop. And If Things Don't Work Out, Take Another Shot! |
- “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” ― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden
- “Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
- “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals
- “Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist
- “Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.” ― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel
- “You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
- “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
- “Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.” ― Roald Dahl
- “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.” ― Helen Keller
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” ― Socrates
- “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” ― Oscar Wilde
- “Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” ― C.E.M. Joad
- “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles William Eliot
- “Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ― Sarah Dessen, Someone Like You
- “I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.” ― Albert Einstein
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ― Joe Klaas, Twelve Steps to Happiness
- “Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.” ― Lemony Snicket
- “A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.” ― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron
- “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.” ― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
- “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
- “The world is not a wish-granting factory.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings, Revised Edition
- “Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.” ― Veronica Roth, Divergent
- “Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.” ― Terry Pratchett, Jingo
- “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there” ― George Harrison
- “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov
- “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!” ― Audrey Hepburn
- “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.” ― George V. Higgins, The Friends of Eddie Coyle
- “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy
- “Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.” ― John Green
- “I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” ― Herbert Bayard Swope
- “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
- “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
- “I would die for you. But I won't live for you.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ― Ray Bradbury
- “Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
- “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- “You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue
- “Peace begins with a smile..” ― Mother Teresa
- “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- “You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.” ― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
- “All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
- “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” ― Michael Cunningham, The Hours
- “The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.” ― C.S. Lewis
- “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
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| Life Is like A Camera - Focus - Capture - Develop. And If Things Don't Work Out, Take Another Shot! |
- “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.” ― Gustave Flaubert
- “Don't think or judge, just listen.” ― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
- “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” ― Oscar Wilde
- “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
- “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
- “Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” ― Langston Hughes
- “Never memorize something that you can look up.” ― Albert Einstein
- “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
- “When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.” ― Marilyn Monroe
- “When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.” ― Groucho Marx
- “In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” ― Mark Twain
- “There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.” ― Oscar Levant
- “When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.” ― Albert Einstein
- “Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.” ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
- “Whatever you are, be a good one.” ― Abraham Lincoln
- “Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.” ― Oscar Wilde
- “First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.” ― Nicholas Klein
- “Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.” ― Thomas Szasz
- “Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.” ― Lemony Snicket
- “Where there is love there is life.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
- “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
- “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” ― Oscar Wilde
- “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays 2, 1926-29
- “Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.” ― Théophile Gautier
- “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
- “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.” ― Plato
- “Destroying things is much easier than making them.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
- “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.” ― Zelda Fitzgerald
- “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” ― Albert Einstein
- “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
- “I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?” ― Ernest Hemingway
- “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.” ― Billy Sunday
- “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” ― Oscar Wilde
- “It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
- “If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” ― E.B. White
- “We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” ― Marilyn Monroe
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.” ― Stephen King, Different Seasons
- “These woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” ― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” ― Albert Einstein
- “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” ― Brigham Young
- “This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
- “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” ― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
- “Some people care too much. I think it's called love.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
- “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ― C.G. Jung
- “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” ― Plato
- “Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.” ― Francis Bacon
- “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
- “I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” ― Jane Austen, Jane Austen's Letters
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