Category: Notable Quotes

So far you've survived 100% of your worst days. You're doing great!" ~ Unknown

I'm tired… I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head, all the time. Can you understand?" ~ Stephen King

Every damn day, Stephen. Every damn day.

Toxic people will not be changed by the alchemy of your kindness. Yes, be kind, but move on quickly and let life be their educator." ~ Brendan Burchard

I firmly believe in small gestures: pay for their coffee, hold the door for strangers, over tip, smile or try to be kind even when you don't feel like it, pay compliments, chase the kid's runaway ball down the sidewalk and throw it back to him, try to be larger than you are— particularly when it's difficult. People do notice, people appreciate. I appreciate it when it's done for me. Small gestures can be an effort, or actually go against our grain (I'm not a big one for paying compliments…), but the irony is that almost every time you make them, you feel better about yourself. For a moment life suddenly feels lighter." ~ Jonathan Carroll

The country is fiercely divided between those who still believe 2 + 2 = 4 and people wholly untethered from reality, and there is little chance the two sides will ever come together again.

Thanks for attending my TED Talk. Help yourself to a complimentary Xanax on the way out." ~ Rex Huppke

I love him not for the way he dances with my angels but for the sound of his voice can silence my demons." ~ (paraphrasing) Christopher Poindexter

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them." ~ Jodi Picoult

If only we wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is difficult, since we think them happier than they are." ~ Charles De Montesquieu

I am not young enough to know everything." ~ J.M. Barrie

Learn what the magician knows and it's not magic any more." ~ Richard Bach, Messiah's Handbook

No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope." ~ Pittacus Lore

One must always be careful of books…and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us." ~ Cassandra Clare

Introverts don't get lonely if they don't socialize with a lot of people, but we do get lonely if we don't have intimate interactions on a regular basis." ~ Sophia Dembling

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people." ~ John Steinbeck

We're all lost. The best chance we got is to wander this life with the people who matter." ~  Kristen Ashley

And what does it mean—to die? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and at his death only the five we know perish, while the other ninety-five remain alive." ~ Anton Chekhov