Wonderful Quotes

Here are some of my favourite quotes. I got the idea from one of my friends' blog.

“I did not fail, I only found a hundred thousand ways that did not work.”
– Albert Einstein

“Every story has an end, but in life, every ending is just another beginning.” – Uptown Girls

“Without the possibility of pain, there can be no joy, no real love.”
– Angela Montenegro


“People say you only live once, but people are as wrong about that as they are about everything. In the darkest moments before dawn a woman returns to her bed. What life is she leading? Is it the same life the woman was living half an hour ago, a day ago, a year ago? Who is this man? Do they lead separate lifes or is it a single life shared? A storm is approaching, it is still over the horizon but you can feel the crackle of electricity in the air. Are either of them aware of the gathering turbulence? Or are they aware of only the electricity the generate between themselves? The first hint of the storm is not a thunderclap, it is a knock…” – Jack Hodgins

“You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions” - Elizabeth Gilbert

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore” – Christopher Columbus

“Don’t go downhill just because it’s easy. The view is only visible from the top.” – Destiny Booze

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.” – Chuck Palahniuk

"You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything.” – Gustave Flaubert

“If we are oblivious to the past, history is condemned to repeat itself.”
- Unknown

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” - Katharine Hepburn

“I believe when life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade…and try to find someone whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.” - Ron White


“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

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe” - Albert Einstein

“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare

“A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.” – Amanda Grier

“Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.” – Oren Arnold

“A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” – Fr. Jerome Cummings

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same." – Anonymous

“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.” - Anonymous


“If I were a woman, I would never trust men who say they are feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying to establish credentials, or they think they might be able to pick up more girls. If I were a woman, I would say, go away and have your first period. Then come back and tell me you are a feminist.” - David Thomas

“Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep… wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you’ re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU… The one who turns to his friends and says, thats her…” - Unknown


“We were given: Two hands to hold. Two legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.” – Unknown

“We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. “ – Anonymous

“A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left.” – Marilyn Monroe


“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we’re really not that different, me and you.” – Colin Raye

“No man is worth your tears, and when you find the man who is, he’ll never make you cry.” -Anonymous

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you see the whole world.” – George Bernard Shaw


“He who dies with the most toys still dies” – Sean Covey


“If who I am is what I have and what I have is lost, then who am I?” – Anonymous

“I’m starting with the man in the mirror, I’m asking him to change his ways, And no message could have been any clearer, If you wanna make the world a better place, Take a look at yoursel, and then make a change.”
- Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard (sung by Michael Jackson)


”Always be the first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” – Judy Garland

“People are just about as happy as they make up their mind to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.” – Mark Twain

“Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force.” – Elaine Maxwell


“Before I can walk in another’s shoes, I must first remove my own.” – Unknown

“Listen, or thy tongue will make thee deaf.” – Native American Proverb