Theoretical Quotes ... Page 16
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Some of us are meant to suffer, you know. Some of us are led to believe that we have this certain destiny and then it just gets snatched away. But we have to stay alive. Because we have to see how the story ends." - My Sassy Girl
"When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone." - Fiona Apple
"Some ideas, once you get them in your head, you can't unthink them. You can't..." - Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What's in it for me?'" - Brian Tracy
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -Marcel Proust
"So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them." - Stephen Chbosky
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain." - Jim Morrison
"Never let your memories be greater than your dreams."
"A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book." - E.B. White
"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have." - Frederick Keonig
"When you're young everything feels like the end of the world. But it's not; it's just the beginning." - Seventeen Again
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity." - Benjamin Franklin
"A real apology has three parts: 1) I'm sorry; 2) it's my fault; and 3) what can I do to make it right?"
"The ability to find beauty in the mundane is an incredible gift because it means that beauty is always abundant." - Joanne Morrison
"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants." - Benjamin Franklin
"Control is never achieved when sought after directly. It is the surprising outcome of letting go." - James Arthur Ray
"The more you get to know someone, the more attractive they become to you. Because everything beautiful you see on the inside, suddenly you're able to see on the outside too."
"Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something. Unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case, you fail by default." - J.K. Rowling
"Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." - Zen Proverb
"Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization." - Amelia Earhart
"The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble." - Ellen DeGeneres
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." - The Crack Up by F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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 lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can." - Willis R. Whitney
"One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore faith in yourself." - Lucille Ball
"It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that. Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements of beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthralls us." - The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing." - Oscar Wilde
"The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right." - Edward Simmons
"The idea of soulmates actually originated with Plato... His theory was that humans originally consisted of four arms, four legs, and two faces. Zeus was threatened by their power and split them all in half; condemning us all to spend our lives trying to complete ourselves." – Bones
"The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will'. Consider nothing impossible, then treat the possibilites as probabilities." - David Copperfield
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget." - Arundhati Roy
"Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance." – The Emperor's Club
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them- if you want to. Someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. It isn't education. It's history. It's poetry." - J.D. Salinger
"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Leonardo Da Vinci
