Everyday Quotes

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
– Robert Brault

“One great advantage of disorder is the chance to make exciting discoveries.”
– Alan Alexander Milne

“A hat is that creation that never goes out of fashion: year after year, it remains just as ridiculous.”
– Fred Allen

“The night is unfathomable. You can never know what the darkness holds. Not because you can’t see it, but because it defies understanding. There’s something out there—cold, terrifying, inhuman.”
*– Criminal Minds

“Spring sets the flowers free to paint the laughing earth with colors.”
– Reginald Heber

“Sometimes the heart and soul are filled with silence when the noisy world retreats, allowing us to find peace. This respite is so brief! Treasure the moment.”
– Pam Brown

“We must cherish every moment of beauty, every hearty laugh, and every kiss. Every moment of contentment fills us with sincere gratitude.”
– Elizabeth Kim

“Silence is not merely the sound of nature but the innermost need of the human soul.”
– Hioszi Tatiosz

“We cannot escape our mistakes because we carry ourselves wherever we go.”
– Hioszi Tatiosz

“You dance on the fragile ice of a mountain lake under snow-laden pines. The snow almost glows around you, softly blueing the black of the night. The full moon fades in the mist, sweating mercury-like silver, and the stars appear as ghosts. The sky bends so low toward the earth that they nearly embrace. A harsh beauty, a winter’s tale. This is your life. You dance, timidly fearing the ice might crack beneath you. You dance, intoxicated, no longer caring about the icy depths. And suddenly, you soar…”
– Vavyan Fable

“This rose is not as fragrant as a summer flower, but it endured every trial the latter could not withstand: the cold winter rains nourished it, the faint sunlight warmed it; the howling wind did not pale it, break its stem, or wither it in the biting frost.”
– Anne Brontë

“We all delight in whispers of scandal and gossip intertwined with suspicion.”
– Lucian

“Only something that was consistently bad before can end well. Otherwise, it’s better for something to have only a bad ending.”
– Erich Maria Remarque

“Just because you can do something well doesn’t mean you have to do it.”
– Meg Cabot

“There are moments in life when you have no choice but to lose your head.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Pay attention not to the words but to the message!”
– Anthony de Mello

“Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise!”
– The Bible

“Drunkenness is deliberate madness.”
– Publius Ovidius Naso

“A person owns nothing but their life. For a brief time, they hold objects in their hands. If those objects are made of stone or metal, they are sure to outlive the person and pass briefly into someone else’s possession. (…) Look around: see the trees and hills! According to ‘human’ laws, they are mine. Do you think the trees care that they are mine?”
– David Gemmell

“If someone exceeds moderation, even the most pleasant things become unpleasant.”
– Democritus

“Say what you must, not what others want to hear.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“What shines within is visible from the outside.”
– Hioszi Tatiosz

“Confusion is like manure. When it’s created, it stinks, but nothing grows without it.”
– Carl Whitaker

“Half of our mistakes occur because we feel when we should think, and the other half because we think when we should feel.”
– John Churton Collins

“A good reputation is a vain and deceitful concept. We often achieve it undeservedly and lose it innocently.”
– William Shakespeare

“Every mysterious event in our life is a message.”
– James Redfield

“Every wine must be tasted: some with just a sip, others with an entire bottle.”
“And how do I decide?”
“By the taste. Only those who have tasted the bitter can know the good.”
– Paulo Coelho

“For every minute you spend in anger, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Analysis kills intuition. Once a seed is ground into flour, it can no longer sprout or grow.”
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“People are not born once and for all on the day their mother gives birth to them. Life repeatedly forces them to give birth to themselves.”
– Gabriel García Márquez

“Sometimes, when we are lost in fear and despair, in routine and monotony, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for a Danish pastry. And fortunately, even when the pastries run out, we can still find solace in a familiar touch, a kind gesture, encouragement, a loving hug, or a moment of comfort.”
*– Stranger Than Fiction

“The world is a vast, unknown land viewed from terraces.”
– Jean-Michel Maulpoix

“You will have great moments and terrible ones. I hope you are full of the great ones. I hope you see things that amaze you. I hope you feel things you’ve never felt before. I hope you meet people who see the world differently. I hope you have a life you can be proud of. But if not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”
*– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

“It is a noble virtue not to make a big deal of our emotional lives. There is always plenty of work to do and a world beyond us to engage with.”
– Joseph Brodsky

“Beauty cannot be pursued; it is always a byproduct of another, often mundane, pursuit.”
– Joseph Brodsky

“If you can’t do great things, do small things greatly! Don’t wait for the opportunity; seize the ordinary moments and make them extraordinary!”
– Napoleon Hill

“As you continue to accept the things you cannot change and change the things you can, you yourself will transform in marvelous ways… performing miracles, one day at a time.”
– Andrew Matthews

“We must cherish what sweeps us away and breaks us apart, for it is for our benefit. These uneventful days, these monotonous movements, these moments of seemingly wasted time…”
– Jean-Michel Maulpoix

“The world is chaotic: beware of becoming the world yourself.”
– Alexander Giese

“I want to accomplish great and noble things, but my main duty is to do small things as if they were great and noble.”
– Helen Keller

“Aside from a few severe psychiatric cases, most people go mad from trying to escape the monotony of everyday life.”
– Paulo Coelho

“My tastes are as simple as they can get. I’m satisfied only with the very best.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Procrastination is the most lethal form of denial.”
– Cyril Northcote Parkinson

“The least strenuous path to prosperity is to freely and without reservation share your values with as many people as you can.”
– Bob Doyle

“We only remember the power of machines when they break down.”
– Clive James

“We don’t occupy the whole earth, just a footprint; not the mountain, just its image in our eyes; not the sea, just its moving energy and reflections on its surface. Nothing is ours but appearances, and that’s why we cling to them so strongly.”
– Mesa Selimovic

“We are comforted by the smallest of things because we are crushed by the smallest of things.”
– Blaise Pascal

“The most beautiful and memorable days are often filled with quiet joys that follow one another like dull pearls on a string—not those marked by grand or thrilling events.”
– Barbara Pym

“Never underestimate the power of good advice. It can save a friendship, inspire action, and restore faith in oneself.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“The eyes are the windows to the soul, but the words are the gates to understanding it.”
– Anonymus

“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
– William James

“We do not remember days; we remember moments.”
– Cesare Pavese

“Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
– Lao Tzu

“If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul.”
– Drew Barrymore

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Only the person who risks is truly free.”
– Leo Buscaglia

“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.”
– Buddha

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”
– Ambrose Redmoon

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
– Dalai Lama

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
– Pema Chödrön

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
– Paulo Coelho

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
– Voltaire

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
– Confucius

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
– Winston Churchill

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
– Buddha

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
– Japanese Proverb

“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
– Maya Angelou

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney

“Dream big and dare to fail.”
– Norman Vaughan

“Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.”
– Albert Einstein

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“The best way out is always through.”
– Robert Frost

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
– John Lennon

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
– Vince Lombardi

“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
– Stephen Covey

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
– Les Brown

“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
– George Addair

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.”
– Maya Angelou

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”
– Booker T. Washington

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.”
– Robert Frost

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
– Aristotle

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.”
– Napoleon Hill

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
– Confucius

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates

“No one makes as many mistakes as the one who acts only with caution.”
— Marquis de Vauvenargues

“Be prepared to appreciate what you encounter!”
— Frank Herbert

“I know a lot about what exists, but very little about what is to come.”
— Clive Staples Lewis

“In life, it’s not the milestones that matter, but the moments.”
— Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Bad luck always arrives for those who expect it. The trick is to find what you can be happy about during the gaps between misfortunes.”
— Christopher Paolini

“Every day brings the miracle of a new beginning. Many moments ahead of us may seem like ordinary days, but each of us has the opportunity to make them special.”
— Douglas Pagels

“Life is much more like Monday morning than Saturday night.”
— Godfried Bomans

“The sun continues its path from east to west, the moon follows, one day follows the next, and they don’t care about the lives they are brushing past.”
— Christopher Paolini

“I’ve discovered that stars are not constant. They melt. I’ve seen with my own eyes that some of the brightest ones melted and ran off the sky. That’s why every night I want to stay awake, to watch and preserve them as long as I can. This way, at least I will have the memory of the brilliant celestial field.”
— Mark Twain

“There are those who claim to have figured out the world. At least this is one certainty. They’re either fools or lying, and everything else is uncertain.”
— From the movie “You Don’t Need to Ask”

“When you wake up, the first rays of the sun show you a new world. Untouched, waiting for your footprints.”
— Frank Herbert

“The sweetest fruits always hang at the end of the most fragile branches.”
— Andrew Matthews

“I admit, it’s tempting to dream of the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect clothes, but maybe the best thing we can do is stay in the game, appreciate what we have, and spice up our wardrobe with accessories.”
— From Sex and the City

“Every day calls you to fill your heart with as many smiles as it can hold.”
— Douglas Pagels

“I really don’t feel like drinking, but it’s not wise to skip even a single day. It’s like exercising. If you want to stay fit, you have to train every day. Even if it’s just jogging around the block twice or swimming two laps.”
— Lawrence Block

“My wife is the worst cook. I don’t think the meatballs should glow in the dark.”
— Woody Allen

“Problems don’t always mean something bad.”
— Andrew Matthews

“Men grow beards so they can shave them off, meaning they don’t have to cook breakfast.”
— Vavyan Fable

“There are many reasons for everything, and it’s hard to pick just one. Who knows what you’ll want to do and what you’ll have to do?”
— Nora Roberts

“I won’t say anything bigger or smaller than what fills its time and place. It’s equal to anything.”
— Walt Whitman

“For the next 365 days, I’ll look at everything and everyone as if for the first time—especially the little things.”
— Paulo Coelho

“Live every season as it passes around you, breathe in the air, finish your drink, taste the fruit, and give yourself over to the enjoyment of it all.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“Live in a way that makes your name beautiful, even if it wasn’t beautiful originally. So that people remember you as something pleasant and beautiful, even if they’ve forgotten its original meaning.”
— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Real life does not build grand and ceremonial gates for our deep and true changes. It humbly and kindly uses our small joys, pains, and weaknesses.”
— Gertrud Von Le Fort

“Nothing matters to the one who says nothing matters.”
— Lin Yutang

“Any simple problem can be turned into an unsolvable one if you think about it long enough.”
— Woody Allen

“If I learn to make something other than a cheese sandwich or instant soup, I’ll have achieved a major life goal.”
— Nora Roberts

“Whenever I pick up a tool, tragic and awful things tend to happen. So I hold back and save lives.”
— Nora Roberts

“It feels much better to do something when it’s not mandatory.”
— Nora Roberts

“I live in a dangerous neighborhood. Every time I close the window, I end up slamming someone’s hand.”
— Woody Allen

“A little-known fact is that about twenty million letters are delivered to the dead every year. People—the grieving widows and possible heirs—forget to notify the post office, don’t cancel their subscriptions, don’t inform distant friends, and leave unpaid library fines. These twenty million notices, bank statements, credit card offers, love letters, advertisements, greeting cards, gossip, and bills fall daily onto doormats or floors, stuffed carelessly into mailboxes or stairwells, gathering dust on porches and never reaching the intended recipient. The dead don’t care. And more importantly, the living don’t either. The living are preoccupied with their small problems and unaware that a miracle is happening nearby. The dead are coming back to life.”
— Joanne Harris

“I see that rules are often just for the purpose of appropriating something.”
— Vavyan Fable

“Never mind that there is no God, but try to find a plumber on a Sunday!”
— Woody Allen

“A pedestrian is someone who walks, trips, and gets back up. This phrase encapsulates human fate.”
— Vavyan Fable

“Homes must change to reflect the personality and life of those who live in them.”
— Nora Roberts

“By changing the way you do routine things, you’ll see a new person growing inside you.”
— Paulo Coelho

“Complaining about difficulties doesn’t make them disappear. It just drives people away.”
— Laurell Kaye Hamilton

“Some storms, before they hit our garden, send tiny messages, which we lazily ignore.”
— Paulo Coelho

“I live in a dangerous neighborhood. In our street, kids steal car wheels—while the car is still moving.”
— Woody Allen

“Hangovers aren’t caused by the drink itself, but by the person you drank with.”
— Gabriel García Márquez

“If there were no winter, we wouldn’t appreciate spring as much. If we didn’t have to endure hunger sometimes, we wouldn’t yearn for prosperity.”
— Anne Bradstreet

“The sky is the same everywhere, only down here do things differ.”
— Truman Capote

“Every generation mocks the old fashion, but religiously follows the new one.”
— Henry David Thoreau

“How little noise the real miracles make! How simple the essential events are!”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Great changes always happen when we least expect them.”
— Paulo Coelho

“Regular traffic and utopia are synonyms.”
— Vavyan Fable

“Overtaking is only justified when we’re sure that the oncoming driver is a coward, and will swerve at the last minute, crashing into a ditch.”
— Vavyan Fable

“Is someone afraid of change? But can anything happen without change? Is there anything more familiar and dear to nature than change? Can you bathe if the firewood doesn’t change? Can you eat if food doesn’t change? Can anything happen that’s useful without change? Don’t you see that your own change is just the same, and is equally a necessary part of nature’s order?”
— Marcus Aurelius

“Today started off well, but then I got out of bed.”
— From Gilmore Girls

“The reason candles are so trendy nowadays is that people have started searching for a connection with the Universe, and the flame of the candle helps create it.”
— Ara Rauch

“People can close their eyes to greatness, to terror, to beauty; they can block their ears from melodies or flattering words. But they cannot escape from scent. For scent is the twin of breath. It sneaks into the human body along with the breath, without it there is no life, no way to avoid it. And scent penetrates directly into the heart, decisively determining attraction and contempt, disgust and kindness, love and hatred.”

— Patrick Süskind

“Push the rules, just a little! It’s the only way to feel truly alive.”
— Alyson Noel

“There was never any ‘good old days’; there were only ordinary days.”
— Kurt Vonnegut

“Every little corner we love is a world unto itself.”
— Oscar Wilde

“When you look at a star in the night sky – if we look straight at it, we barely see it, but if we glance at it out of the corner of our eye, it appears much brighter.”
— Tracy Chevalier

“Been had a theory about people. He compared them to clothes. He used to say that some garments you try on, and within moments you know whether they suit you or not. There are other pieces you think look good, but when you bring them home, you realize they don’t match anything else in your wardrobe. The best clothes are the ones that always look good on you, that never go out of style, the ones you feel great in, even if they’ve shrunk in the wash.”
— Lisa Jewell

“In men’s minds, women’s clothing is a kind of language. There are women’s clothes they understand, and there are those they don’t. These categories have nothing to do with fashion. Women’s clothes are either meant to awkwardly disguise femininity or to emphasize it. Anything else seems like a foreign language.”
— Lisa Jewell

“Life is simple. The more complicated someone thinks their life is, the less aware they are of their true situation. I didn’t understand this for a long time. But now I do. A person is either hungry or full. A person is either healthy or sick. A person is either faithful to their spouse or not. A person is either alive or dead. I am alive. We complain about the complexities of things, about the gray moral areas, but in doing so, we find refuge in them. Complexity is refuge from choice, and thus from action. In most situations, people would rather do nothing. Sic transit gloria mundi – Thus passes the glory of the world.”
— Greg Iles

“Imagine: if you’re gifted an hour, you’re gifted a little blooming hell, with rose chains, gilded pits. Not just the hour is gifted to you, hoping you’ll wear it long, because it’s an excellent Swiss brand with ruby stones; not just this tiny device that you wear on your wrist like a desperate arm. They gift you – unknowingly, and this is what’s terrible, that they don’t know – they gift you with a new, fragile and questionable particle, something that’s yours, but not from your body, that must be tied to your body with a strap, hanging on your wrist like a desperate little arm. They gift you the obligation to wind it daily, because only then can the watch remain a watch; they gift you the pressure to check the exact time in jewelry store windows, to listen to it on the radio, to regularly use the time service of the telephone center. They gift you the fear that you’ll lose it, that it will be stolen, that you’ll drop it and break it. They gift you with its brand, with the certainty that this is a better brand than the others; they gift you with the inclination to compare it with other watches. They don’t gift you with the hour, they gift you away, they offer you up for the watch’s birthday.”
— Julio Cortázar

“The great troubles of life are not the ones that test character! Facing great tragedies and accepting suffering is an easier task, but bearing the petty annoyances of daily life and smiling at them is much harder, that requires a strong character.”
— Jean Webster

“The night was sweet, the Moon full. Since time immemorial, lovers have gazed at our moon with joy.”
— Prosper Mérimée

“Silence can be like failure. If there’s silence in a lively conversation, in an instant it can invalidate everything that was said before, as if the whole chat was just a lucky coincidence, because it was only a matter of time before the truth came out: that, in fact, no one has anything to say to anyone. Why can’t people just sit quietly together without feeling bored, helpless, and excluded by others? Silence also attracts mindless chatter; the desire to fill the gap in the conversation with the most ridiculous remarks.”
— Lisa Jewell

“Sending a letter is good because it allows us to reach somewhere by letting only our heart take the journey.”
— Phyllis Theroux

“Everything is conditional, just not always on the surface.”
— Dr. House (TV series)

“The mistake is as big as the trouble it causes.”
— Dr. House (TV series)

“When we call on thoughts, they run from us; when we want to dismiss them, they possess us, keeping our eyes open in the dead of night against our will.”
— Marquis de Vauvenargues

“I say to you, my friend, that practice takes a long time, and eventually it becomes our nature.”
— Euénosz

“We have to deal with a lot of gray. No one can live forever in the light.”
— Libba Bray

“The stars don’t show the future; they tell stories.”
— Shrek (Movie)

“If you want to see a rainbow, you have to endure the rain.”
— Dolly Parton

“The strangeness of everyday events diverts our attention from the painful essence of passion.”
— Antoine Barnave

“Dusk is like God taking a breath, and for a moment, time stops.”
— Emilie Richards

“Nothing is bad or useless. Everything is at its best in its place.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When many possibilities unfold before you, and you have an eternity to try them all, it’s hard not to be greedy!”
— Alyson Noel

“You don’t always hear the wise voice, just as the wild storm doesn’t rage forever. Thunder is followed by silence, and after darkness, the rainbow smiles.”
— John Heider

“If you do nothing, you can’t break any rules.”
— Christopher Moore

“We always knew where the limit was. And we only crossed it cautiously.”
— J.K. Rowling

“There’s nothing worse than itching and not being able to scratch. Well, okay, maybe I’m being a little melodramatic. There are worse things. But I live in the moment. And this moment is incredibly uncomfortable.”
— Ronda Thompson

“Certain things are better off broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. That’s how the universe ensures opposites exist. There must be a few pits along the road. This is life.”
— Sarah Dessen

“Wildness, my friend, is the queen of forms of death.”
— Honoré de Balzac

“Every action you take has significance.”
— Andrew Matthews

“Never wrestle with a pig. Because if you do, both of you will get dirty. But the pig will enjoy it.”
— Sherry Argov

“If you want to receive, you must ask.”
— Andrew Matthews

“His only happy hour in life was the dawn, which he eagerly awaited every day. He felt the sun’s warmth on his skin, inhaled the misty air, and enjoyed the sunlight. These were his moments of happiness.”
— J. R. Ward

“One cloud is enough to darken the sun.”
— Baltasar Gracián

“The world stands on foolishness; without it, perhaps nothing would happen in it.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“First set aside, and only then spend!”
— Andrew Matthews

“You never know which will be the most important day of your life. What you think will be important won’t be what you imagined. This is just another of the ordinary days. The most important days end up making those days important.”

— Grey’s Anatomy (TV Series)

“There is no paradise on Earth, but there are pieces of it.”
— Jules Renard

“I have no problem with self-restraint (…), but I would like to live a life where I do nothing but good things, not one in which I refrain from doing bad things.”
— Chuck Palahniuk

“You can lock up the beautiful, the flawed, the harmless, the tender, the brave, but you can never lock up the soul.”
— Oscar Wilde

“I want to wake up to a world that’s free of the familiar.”
— Octavia Butler

“If someone tells you to stop looking, stop wondering, don’t listen. I would rather be crushed under a mountain of mistakes than never feel the weight of wonder.”
— Marissa Meyer

“Don’t become like everyone else. Make a difference, even if it’s a small one.”
— Unknown

“We’ve learned that the best way to deal with the past is to stop talking about it.”
— Oscar Wilde

“We all have masks that we put on to face the world, and sometimes, we believe the mask.”
— John Green

“I would love to say the most important lesson I learned was to be careful what you wish for, but the truth is that the lesson is more about being clear about what you want.”
— Jodi Picoult

“Sometimes the universe tests you before giving you what you want.”
— Unknown

“Grief can sometimes be so potent that it twists your soul in ways you never thought possible.”
— Unknown

“The tragedy of life is not that we die, but that we wait so long to truly live.”
— Unknown

“Love is a promise; love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let it disappear.”
— John Lennon

“The most beautiful part of love is the unexpected moments when two hearts meet, and for a split second, everything is right in the world.”
— Unknown

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Aristotle

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
— Elbert Hubbard

“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
— Aristotle

“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.”
— Unknown

“There’s nothing in this world as constant as change.”
— Heraclitus

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
— Steve Jobs

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
— Steve Jobs

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.”
— Mother Teresa

“Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
— Maya Angelou

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
— Nelson Mandela

“The road to success is always under construction.”
— Lily Tomlin

“Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.”
— David Frost

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
— Cesare Pavese

“Time will pass, and seasons will change, but memories are forever.”
— Unknown

“You can’t relive the past, but you can make the future worth remembering.”
— Unknown

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
— Abraham Lincoln

“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

“Don’t wait for opportunity to knock. Build a door.”
— Milton Berle

“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.”
— William Arthur Ward

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain

“If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs.”
— Tony Gaskins

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
— Mae West

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.”
— John Lennon

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
— Steve Jobs

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
— Zig Ziglar

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”
— Dalai Lama

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”
— Lao Tzu

“My clothes came from the ‘poor box.’ These were worn-out garments that the wealthy girls donated to the school. You can’t imagine how terrified I was to show up in these clothes at school. I was convinced that I would end up beside the girl who wore that very same dress before me, and she would whisper to the others who would secretly mock me. The bitterness of having to wear the clothes of my enemies constantly gnawed at my soul. Even if I could wear silk stockings for the rest of my life, this wound would never heal.”
Jean Webster

“You cannot wish for something that is already yours.”
Stephenie Meyer

“Never make the same mistake twice, for there are plenty of others to choose from!”
Bertrand Russell

“Friend, let me tell you a great secret. Don’t wait for the final judgment. It happens every day.”
Albert Camus

“When I was little, I never understood what was so great about Ferris wheels. They’re slow and go high, that’s it. After one round, I got bored. I was much more interested in thrilling things like roller coasters or giant water slides. But now, I think I understand: Ferris wheels are for slowly, just slowly, gliding through the sky with the one you love, and maybe, just maybe, talking along the way.”
Honey and Clover, film

“Enthusiastic people are loved by everyone, even if they are enthusiastic about car washing, barbecuing, or handcrafts.”
Meg Cabot

“Summer meant for me the essence of everything I had loved in the past and everything I had missed in it.”
Banana Yoshimoto

“It’s dusk… the easiest time. But also the saddest, in some ways… another day ends, and the night returns. Nothing is as predictable as the darkness.”
Stephenie Meyer

“A product’s perceived usefulness is inversely proportional to its actual usefulness after purchase and payment.”
Arthur Bloch

“Looking at clouds from an airplane is one of those feelings I love most about flying. This, and the closeness you feel because you’re so close to your own death.”
Neil Gaiman

“Some people simply cannot venture into the unknown. They would rather swim along with the known current than drown in unknown waters.”
Danielle Steel

“I never knew how calming a beautiful environment could be. That evening, I just sat there, watching the firelight gleam beautifully on my new fireplace grate, and purred in contentment.”
Jean Webster

“Don’t let momentary storms obscure the blue sky of your life! Stay calm and balanced in every situation, and soon you will attract people just like the Sun attracts the Earth.”
Meg Cabot

“A person loses a lot if they never lose their temper.”
Martha Gellhorn

“Complaining is an inner worm that will slowly eat up your happiness.”
Marie Clarence

“The events that may seem unusual from a distance, once they happen next to us, become completely natural, as if they were always happening; they break down into countless tiny facts and gradually fade into the grey of everyday life.”
Anatole France

“Our usual mood depends on the mood we can create in our surroundings.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“At the moment, I would happily exchange myself for some moss or a single-celled organism. Something that experiences the joy of existence while thoughtlessly vegetating.”
Vavyan Fable

“Experiences are countless and renew every time, and perhaps in this very property lies the miracle.”
Vavyan Fable

“Lately, I’ve been at odds with the world, but there’s nothing strange about that. The world has always been this way, it’s just that I related to it with excessive understanding. That’s over now. I wonder if it dares to look into my angry eyes?”
Vavyan Fable

“It’s entirely up to you how you feel.”
Andrew Matthews

“Just as a tree bears the same fruit every year, and it’s still always new, so must we constantly recreate those thoughts that hold lasting value.”
Albert Schweitzer

“Life repeats itself endlessly, the day starts again every morning and ends in bed.”
Vavyan Fable

“These days, it’s fine to have premonitions. They cost nothing, and something always happens, so the premonition fulfills its purpose.”
Vavyan Fable

“Warn each other every day while today lasts, so neither of you falls prey to the deceit of sin.”
Bible

“How lucky we are; we’ve gotten so used to beautiful, simple things that we don’t even notice them anymore, and instead demand so many questionable things.”
Maxie Wander

“Sometimes there are no words, or wise quotes, to accurately describe what happened that day. Sometimes, you do everything right, you do everything properly, and still feel like you failed.”
Killer Instincts, film

“True wisdom in life is found in noticing what’s wonderful in the everyday.”
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

“Now, here’s the problem with those who are good listeners. They don’t interrupt our sentences, sparing us from having to finish them. And they don’t talk above our heads, allowing what we’ve managed to mumble to get lost or change in the process. They just wait. So we have to keep going.”
Sarah Dessen

**”- I prefer to be sensible.

• Without a break? What’s the point?”**
  Vavyan Fable

“We practice the art of procrastination. After all, we have to eat, drink something, and so many other things await us while we stare at each other, almost absentmindedly. We’re aware of all this, yet it’s hard to stop.”
Vavyan Fable

“There’s nothing better than a little attachment that you can comfortably rebel against.”
Douglas Adams

“When I’m in a bad mood, the world has no choice but to tremble and look into my eyes. And believe me, it doesn’t last long.”
Vavyan Fable

“Bad news travels fast, while good news is never rushed.”
Doctor House, TV series

“Ordinary days were created just so that a person could recover from the boredom of Sunday.”
Mark Twain

“The general is what is common enough to be general.”
Paul Valéry

“It’s strange, haven’t you noticed how we don’t pay attention to our emotions on ordinary days? As if they don’t even exist.”
Vavyan Fable

“Who calls at night can’t be a good person. Okay, maybe a person, but definitely not someone bringing good news. Friendly messages can wait until morning. Usually.”
Vavyan Fable

“A person should prepare for extraordinary situations when peace reigns.”
Joshi Bharat

“The world of puppets is magical… seeing them makes children’s imaginations soar, and the serious adults become children again, recalling past experiences.”
Joshi Bharat

“At the beginning of things, you accept everything and want everything, but then comes a time when you begin to choose.”
Joshi Bharat

“Outdoors, the Sun is preparing to set, wanting to celebrate the occasion with an orgy, tearing cloud-ruffled bedclothes from the sky. Orange, pom-pom blue, flask green, blood-red backgrounds paint the retreat.”
Vavyan Fable

“If we want human life not to be grey and dull, we must recognize that some things have value not because of their usefulness.”
Johan Huizinga

“Those who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind. Or a typhoon. Taste as you please.”
Laurell Kaye Hamilton

“Some forget about the ones they meet every day, much more than anyone else.”
Laurell Kaye Hamilton

“People are pitifully unable to live with their mysteries. If there’s something we can’t explain, we prefer to reject it.”
Chuck Palahniuk

“Acceptance is the key to everything.”
Chuck Palahniuk

“He crossed out every passed day with a thick black marker and felt that this was the worst way he could relate to life.”
Stephen King

“A person sits here alone in the evening, reading books or thinking, or doing something else. Sometimes they reflect, and there’s no one to tell them what’s true or not. They see something, but they don’t know if they’re seeing it right. They can’t turn to anyone to ask if they see it too. They can’t say anything. There’s nothing to measure things by.”
John Steinbeck

“Anything you can’t let go of when it’s no longer useful to you takes hold of you, and in this materialistic age, most of us are shackled by these unnecessary ties.”
John Steinbeck

“The spark of rebellion in the wind, but a spark that seeks the gunpowder.”

– André Breton

“String together the days like a necklace. Each day will be a new pearl on your jewelry. Carefully fit the unpolished pearls together so that they shine with a quiet, peaceful light under your touch. As if you were a master jeweler born to create special necklaces—this is how you should live your life.”

– Hiossi Tatios

“Winter is not a season, but an occupation.”

– Sinclair Lewis

“A person cannot get anything without giving something in return. What we gain, we lose something of equal value. This is the principle of equivalence.”

– Fullmetal Alchemist

“What I love about drawing is that when you’re drawing, it’s like the whole world stops existing around you. It’s just you, the paper, and the pencil, maybe with some soft classical music playing in the background, but you don’t really hear it because you’re so immersed in what you’re doing. When you’re drawing, you don’t notice the passage of time, nor what’s happening around you. When you’re really on a roll, you might start at one o’clock and not look up until five, and you won’t even have noticed how much time passed, until someone points it out. There’s nothing in the world that compares to it. Movies? Reading? Not really. Unless the story is really amazing, which is actually rare. When you’re drawing, you’re in your own world, your own creation. And there’s no better world than the one you created for yourself. That’s why when you’re deep in a drawing and something disrupts that world, it’s a hundred times more frustrating than when you’re doing math homework, and your sister barges into your room asking to borrow a hair tie or whatever. When you’re drawing, and someone interrupts you like that, I think that person deserves to be kicked.”

– Meg Cabot

“No one cares about saving the world because everyone is ignoring it.”

– Daniel Quinn

“Anything can happen to it, although I promised I wouldn’t leave it.”

– Nemo in the film Finding Nemo

“Like love, privacy is most obvious when it’s absent.”

– Christopher Moore

“What man arranges (…), circumstances will overturn.”

– Victor Hugo

“Everyone fears the mundane, as though it were some kind of fate that breeds boredom and complacency. I don’t believe in this fatalism…”

– Marc Lévy

“We lead each other, though we don’t yet know where we’re heading.”

– Vavyan Fable

“No woman can resist kicking at the traces if her husband is not around.”

– Mikhail Sholokhov

“It will still hurt your head if someone else gets drunk.”

– Mikhail Sholokhov

“A person cannot be replaced by a machine.”

– Mikhail Sholokhov

“The sharpness of wit is only worth something if it’s not read by the uninitiated.”

– Mikhail Sholokhov

“If you have started plowing, plow until the last furrow.”

– Mikhail Sholokhov

“Man does not live in nature, but in history.”

– Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

“Troubles are not solved by projecting them onto others, by designating someone else as the scapegoat for our own troubles.”

– Vavyan Fable

“A person creates their own heaven and their own hell by the way they think throughout the day.”

– Joseph Murphy

“As far as the eye can see, people are bustling around. They stare at shop windows, or their shoe tips; they talk on cell phones, eat, read newspapers, carry little dogs, stroll with their walkman, rollerblade, run. Could we be more in sync with each other?”

– Vavyan Fable

“Every success is for those who combine the pleasant with the useful.”

– Quintus Horatius Flaccus

“I knew it, now it flows through me, and the tension of the past few days is immediately released, leaving me with a slight numbness in my toes. When a person doesn’t pay attention to constantly being tense and, unintentionally and unwittingly, relaxes, this happens: the body detoxifies.”

– Vavyan Fable

“Though we refer to reason, madness plays with us. The coarseness we live with is so pronounced that beside it, everything that is gentle, everything that is beautiful, escapes unnoticed to the ignorant eye.”

– Vavyan Fable

“Most people nod while on the phone, but this is pure energy waste.”

– Vavyan Fable

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, there must be darkness.”

– Francis Bacon

“Everything is constantly changing. Nothing remains that does not renew itself continuously.”

– Peter Freund

“Do not let the temptation of familiarity feel like security: if a long-practiced method becomes useless, you will face the new situation unprepared.”

– Isamu Fukui

“The average person’s sleep requirement: five more minutes.”

– Wilson Mizner

“There are days when the details of the day fit together like pieces of a stained-glass window. A hundred little fragments, colors, and moods, which, when they come together, form a full picture.”

– Maggie Stiefvater

“Wise and scientific thoughts always kill the appetite.”

– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“When a person is broken and wants to sleep, it seems that nature is in the same state.”

– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“In the eyes of nature, every form is equal. Nothing is lost in the great crucible where variations evolve, every drop of matter that enters it is reborn in a thousand new forms.”

– Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

“He who is alone, without God and without a master, bears the terrible weight of everyday life.”

– Albert Camus

“If you wash your car in order to make it rain, you’ll waste your time.”

– Arthur Bloch

“No matter what breaks, someone always knew it would happen.”

– Arthur Bloch

“If you feel good, don’t worry! It will pass.”

– Arthur Bloch

“Most of our problems come from following rules.”

– Paulo Coelho

“It is foolish to try to hold the world in our hands, believing in a false security, for those who live this way will be unprepared for life’s hardships.”

– Paulo Coelho

“Nothing happens without reason, even if it can’t be immediately recognized.”

– Peter Freund

“A great act of courage can change the course of history, but so can smaller actions, just not in such a grand way—right down to the rolling pebble that was kicked off the path, or the breath taken away by the sight of a pretty girl, or the mark made by our nail in the soil of the garden.”

– John Steinbeck

“The less we have, the more we must boast about it.”

– John Steinbeck

“The need for joy is so strong that a person can endure much pain for it. Joy is a positive quality. It’s the enjoyment of work, a good book, a good friend; joy is the thrill of climbing the Matterhorn, or the noise of Shanghai’s Bund, or the whistle of your lover from the hallway; joy is whatever a person does with pleasure; the things they like to reflect upon; things to remember fondly; and sometimes even things they talk about, knowing they will never do them.”

– Lafayette Ron Hubbard

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you will never enjoy the sunshine.”

– Morris Langlo West

“I’ve had it up to here, this is the hundredth time this year. It would be good if they’d realize that the snowshoe is workwear and take care of replenishment.”

– Vavyan Fable

“If you want to be happy, don’t think about what’s coming, or what you have no control over; focus on the present and the things you can change.”

– Christopher Paolini

“If you’re constantly irritated, disturbed, or hurt, is it possible the problem lies in your own attitude? Our so-called ultra-intelligent civilization is a real neurotic factory! Slights, pains, fears, and craziness pour in on us, taking us to the woods, driving us insane, confusing us—if we let them.”

– Vavyan Fable

“If we entertain cautiously, it’s not really fun anymore.”

– Liviu Rebreanu

“Silence can sometimes be so incredibly loud.”

– Sarah Dessen

“With a full belly, even pain is easier to bear!”

– Liviu Rebreanu

“Every soul has its own path. Every thought is a new step forward.”

– Lao Tzu

“The best solution to any problem is the one that most favorably impacts the most beings.”
– Lafayette Ron Hubbard

“Let us be grateful for every day, because we never know what tomorrow will bring!”
– Liviu Rebreanu

“The train timetable is something that almost everyone will watch with either pride or anxiety.”
– John Steinbeck

“Seize every day. Rejoice with the claim of fullness. Every day as it is. People as they are. (…) It’s not about living in the moment – that would be a materialistic attitude – it’s about rejoicing in the moment as a treasure. I see that most people live superficially, not even thinking about the miracle that it’s a gift for us to be alive at all.”
– Audrey Hepburn

“There is death every day, but there is no catch every day.”
– Thomas Mann

“How petty vanity is when one dyes their hair.”
– Thomas Mann

“Generally, events don’t pass beside us, above us, but through us, and they transform us.”
– Paul Georgescu

“I am often surprised by how blindly we walk through life, unaware of, and never imagining, the tragedy, great humanity, sorrow, heroism, villainy, and despair hidden in the small patch of land we are currently living on. And we simply live, unaware of all of this.”
– Konstantin Paustovsky

“When one cheers the loudest, they nearly succeed as a mockery, but when one expects nothing bad, that’s when the blow comes.”
– Thomas Mann

“If we arrive anywhere prepared, we do not feed the vanity of others, and this is a situation that every sensible person must avoid. It’s especially important for a woman to conceal with all her strength if she happens to know something.”
– Jane Austen

“One must give themselves.”
– Thomas Mann

“Sometimes how complicated the simple things are!”
– Vavyan Fable

“Time cannot be spoken of, only events can.”
– Paul Georgescu

“Living in the city, we forget how dark the night is, how bright the moon is, how many stars there are.”
– Laurell Kaye Hamilton

“What is rootless, easily rots.”
– Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

“The moon – an emotionless, silent witness to the sweet moments of love and revenge.”
– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“The dark night – a day locked in a nutshell.”
– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Of course, there are times when one must be serious. But excessive seriousness does harm to one’s career and even worse to their general health.”
– Daniel H. Pink

“The air, a mixture of thousands of breaths, one of which is yours.”
– Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko

“Superstitions fill the gap between things we can control and things we cannot. Here’s a penny, and if you pick it up, fortune will be with you today. No one wants to miss their good luck. But does it help if we say it thirty-three times? Does anyone really pay attention? But if no one is watching, why do we do these strange things? Why? We believe in superstitions because we all know very well that there are no answers to everything. And we know that life holds mysterious things. Never underestimate the power of the voodoo, no matter where it comes from.”
– Grace Anatomy (TV series)

“The wait for drinking is the hardest wait of all. A person would rather wait five hours in the snow and frost for a train than five minutes for a drink.”
– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“We must think about why we hold on so tightly to our expectations? What’s expected only keeps us firmly in place. The expected is merely the beginning. It is the unexpected that changes our lives!”
– Grace Anatomy (TV series)

“The world needs nothing but examples, people who can live according to their dreams, and are able to fight for their visions.”
– Paulo Coelho

“It is observed that events are cowardly: they don’t happen one by one, only in groups, only when they are bold enough to rush at us together.”
– Neil Gaiman

“It’s better to be drunk and happy than sober and miserable.”
– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“There is no rule without an exception.”
– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“A sigh carries with it something of relief.”
– Patrick Süskind

“For my part, I did everything I could. And who could want more than that?”
– Catherine Jinks

“Sometimes we think something is lost, but it’s not. It has just gone somewhere else.”
– The Sixth Sense (film)

“Destruction is always easier than construction.”
– Charlaine Harris

“The moon thief – it doesn’t shine its own light; it reflects rays stolen from the sun.”
– Dean Ray Koontz

“When something harms or troubles us, we must set aside the pain for a few days, just like an evening newspaper, unread. And when we look at it a week later, we see it differently, just like last week’s news and sensational headlines become outdated in a few hours. Everything almost crystallizes on its own.”
– Vavyan Fable

“Silence tells a romantic tale.”
– Vavyan Fable

“I almost forgot what simple people are like, staring in wonder as an old man quietly sunbathed on a bench, a woman did her shopping, and a young couple walked their dog while embracing. These simple things are lost in prison. I felt like a tourist in a foreign country, or like an astronaut on an alien planet.”
– Nelson Mandela

“Waves reach the shore. Just like yesterday, just like tomorrow. Hours tick by. Sunrises. Sunsets. The moon shrinks, then swells. The machines click, tick. Ethereal rhythms, meaningless movements. The only sane solution is to escape into indifference.”
– Dean Ray Koontz

“The sight of the waves sometimes helps more than the best psychiatrist.”
– Dean Ray Koontz

“Recently, a research group studied where people like to go. The Caribbean islands, the library, the cinema, the swinger club, the theater, rafting? The survey results showed that people most enjoy going to the bathroom!”
– Vavyan Fable

“There is no point in allowing people to stick their noses into certain matters.”
– Alice Katherine Applegate

“The night covers the world but reveals the universe.”
– Evan Esar

“Sometimes one must resort to the tools of oppression.”
– Charlie Huston

“It’s interesting how the more tired you are, the harder it is to get to bed, especially if your bedroom has a fireplace, and the fire crackles in the hearth.”
– Clive Staples Lewis

“Inanimate objects can only move just enough to always be in your way.”
– Arthur Bloch

“Whenever you want to knock something, you realize the world is made of aluminum and PVC.”
– Arthur Bloch

“The only law: do what feels good!”
– Ken Follett

“If you want to see the light, you must risk the darkness.”
– A Few Good Men (film)

“A mistake is a mistake! If we make another mistake, there is nothing wrong with that, but to make the same mistake twice is foolishness.”
– Ken Follett

“Don’t think long term. Just until dinner or bedtime. Defined time intervals, tasks, and pleasures. Escapes.”
– Philip Kindred Dick

“You know, emotions and actions are always connected. One cannot exist without the other.”
– Sarah Dessen

“If everything always went smoothly, we’d get too used to it. Sometimes a little bit of chaos is necessary. Otherwise, you wouldn’t truly appreciate it when things go well.”
– Sarah Dessen

“When God closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.”
– The Sound of Music (film)

“Perhaps happiness doesn’t come from life-changing events but rather from everything around us falling into place. Maybe it’s about stringing together many little joys into a chain. (…) Maybe happiness is indeed made up of small joys, like arriving at a traffic light that turns green just as you approach it. Or small annoyances, like the itch caused by a clothing label on the back of a shirt. Things that happen to everyone every day. Maybe everyone gets the same amount of happiness each day, no matter if you’re a beloved star or a clumsy lizard. Even if your friend is probably dying, it doesn’t make a difference. Perhaps we only passively go through these things, and we shouldn’t expect more from life.”
– Ann Brashares

“In our natural hunger for information, do we even notice what we’re looking at day after day, especially during meals? Gazing upon the lifeless, murdered, blown-up, drowned, crushed, or riddled remains of our fellow human beings, who are none of our business, we eat. We don’t even feel like we’re snooping, like we’re intruding. We’ve been turned into amateur coroners. And of course, we haven’t protested much. Kiss to the media.”
– Vavyan Fable

“You cannot separate the ugly from the beautiful, the dark from the light, death from life, or reality from dreams. My private world is complete with all of these; without them, it would be uninhabitable.”
– Vavyan Fable

“If you play poorly, you must accept that you’ll lose.”
– Nora Roberts

“Everything has a price (…). Throughout history, the gods have always demanded payment. Or, to put it more plainly, nothing is free.”
– Nora Roberts

“Being part of something special made me special, too.”
– Glee

“Things can easily fall apart. That’s what Murphy’s Law says, too.”
– Sidney Sheldon

“Dear Diary, I survived the first day. I said ‘I’m fine, thank you’ at least 37 times but never really meant it. And no one noticed. When someone asks, ‘How are you?’ they’re not really interested in the answer.”
– The Vampire Diaries

“It’s not about what you drop, but how you drop it—that judges and defines you.”
– Friedrich Freiherr von Gagern

“Funny! Sometimes, when you walk into a new place, you feel like you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.”
– How I Met Your Mother

“My instincts labeled them as dangerous, and if you listen to your instincts, you’ll live longer. The only flaw with instincts, though, is that they don’t explain their suspicions or reasons. So all that’s left is cautiousness in uncertainty.”
– Laurell Kaye Hamilton

“To a sleeping man, sometimes even a fart sounds like thunder.”
– Erich Maria Remarque

“If you draw a one-inch line somewhere, then another line one degree apart, their endpoints will be very close. The difference will be negligible. But if you extend those lines over hundreds of miles, the endpoints will be miles apart. Sometimes a small decision or change can lead to dramatic differences in the outcome.”
– Mike Shinoda

“I’m imperfect! I don’t follow trends! Trends shouldn’t follow me! I don’t need sugar-coated idylls! I want a real woman!”
– Vavyan Fable

“I don’t believe the weights listed in cookbooks have anything to do with the final outcome. The entire measuring nonsense is simply a way to mystify the world’s most primitive trick—cooking and baking. And by doing so, it places power in women’s hands.”
– Vavyan Fable

“The world around me has become devoid of wonder and magic. When I turn on the radio or TV, or open a newspaper, I constantly feel like they’re trying to push a forced New Year’s Eve vibe onto me. And I hate that pretense, even on New Year’s Eve.”
– Vavyan Fable

“Can’t you see the cheap flea circus we’re living in? With a grand fanfare, they try to convince us it’s not a flea, but an elephant!”
– Vavyan Fable

“The world is full of dangers, and if you blink, you might miss something.”
– Californication

“Bring color into my life with the chaos of troubles!”
– 500 Days of Summer

“Stopping laughter was like trying to patch leaks in a poorly built dam: as soon as one was plugged, the water started pouring out somewhere else.”
– Stephen King

“Band-Aids are like police officers—there’s never one around when you need them.”
– Stephen King

“You’re so busy some days that you can’t even think, and sometimes it’s actually nice not to be able to think.”
– Stephen King

“Sometimes miracles happen. Completely unexpectedly. When we’re not even looking for them. They just happen. (…) Unfortunately, bad things also happen in life. And, of course, wonderful things, too. We need to remember this. Always. At any time.”
– Thomas Brezina

“Suburbia: try doing something your neighbor doesn’t notice, and if you succeed, you’ve worked a miracle!”
– Vavyan Fable

“We seem to think and speak in pre-made templates. But what if I really felt awful? Would I admit it to them? Or would everything still be perfectly fine, and I’d still have no reason to complain?”
– Monika Feth

“Trivial things rarely get photographed: a used bandage, a gas station attendant, or a bee landing on jelly. Yet these are the things that truly reflect our lives. But people don’t photograph such things.”
– Darkroom

“What’s interesting always has a touch of eeriness.”
– Thomas Mann

“Danger is better than passion. It’s safer.”
– Jeaniene Frost

“What a person thinks, they create in the world around them, day after day, over and over.”
– Marion Zimmer Bradley

“The noblest ambition can die out in a household ledger.”
– Honoré de Balzac

“When things go wrong, they do so spectacularly fast.”
– Richard Bachman

“Sometimes we don’t notice what’s staring us in the face.”
– Jeffrey Eugenides

“If you can’t do anything for someone, you might as well eat your bread before it’s taken away. You never know when it’ll be taken.”
– Erich Maria Remarque

“Doesn’t everyone want to keep what they can’t have? And to rid themselves of what won’t let go?”
– Erich Maria Remarque

“There’s one secret to life, one way to survive: never let yourself get angry. Never let anything upset you. Ever.”
– Tony Curtis

“Bad news travels fast, and when it arrives, you must deal with it somehow. If your husband says he’s moved on, we find something to keep us busy and distract ourselves. If the bills pile up, we find a way to make extra money. If there’s a secret too terrible to tell, we learn to keep it inside. But we must remember, sometimes bad news can also be good news in disguise.”
– Desperate Housewives

“Some things never change.”
– James Rollins

“When faced with the incredible, the best approach is to greet it as though you encounter it every day.”
– Jeffrey Eugenides

“Safety timidly avoids you.”
– Vavyan Fable

“It’s dark enough now for me to see the future: the cold mornings and long nights, the everyday music.”
– Michael Cunningham

“Elegance isn’t superficial; it’s a way of showing respect for life and work.”
– Paulo Coelho

“The story of Aladdin’s lamp features genies bursting with vitality, transcending the mundane boundaries of everyday life, and grabbing my heart so tightly it never lets go. A thousand-year-old absurd tale is more full of life than the faceless crowds wandering the train station. How can this be? I find it remarkable.”
– Haruki Murakami

“There are moments when fatigue feels like drunkenness.”
– David Van Reybrouck

“Ah, the world changes daily. (…) Evening falls at the same time every day, but by the time morning breaks, the world is no longer the same as it was the day before.”
– Haruki Murakami

“Vanity can only be satisfied with oceans of gold. Our pleasures require time and energy—or great dedication. Gold inherently contains all of this, and it brings it to fruition.”
– Honoré de Balzac

“Attention is an unavoidable part of life. I can’t always blend into the background.”
– Stephenie Meyer

“Every person is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; the trick is not to exceed the limit.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“Excuses are the beams with which you build the house of failure.”
– Donald Wilder

“Everything… affects everything.”
– Jay Asher

“Most of our days can be endured with standard clichés. There’s nothing wrong with them. They exist because they work. They’re quick, effective, and universal.”
– Ann Brashares

“Waking up is almost like being born. You emerge without memories, then, blinking and yawning, you start piecing together fragments of your past, trying to arrange the shards in chronological order, arming yourself against the present.”

– Dennis Lehane

“Every day, there are countless things to fear. What if one of your friends gets cancer? What if something happens to your siblings or parents? What if you get hit by a car crossing the street? Or someone at school finds out you’re an unnatural monster? Or you swim too far into the lake, and the waves crash over your head? What if a fire breaks out, or a war starts? You can toss and turn sleeplessly at night, dreading all these things.”

– Brenna Yovanoff

“It just amazes me how someone’s life can change so much in an instant. From the very worst to the very best. Just like that.”

– Nora Roberts

“Sometimes events follow one another like dominoes lined up in a row: the first knocks over the second, the second the third, and so on.”

– Stephen King

“If you keep doing what you’ve been doing, you’ll keep getting what you’ve been getting.”

– Jim Rohn

“You can stay in the fanciest hotels, be part of a giant rock band, be famous and recognized on the street, but when you go to the bathroom, toilet paper is still just toilet paper.”

– Saul Hudson

“A person can stare without seeing for a long time.”

– Bernlef

“The greatest loneliness in life stems from our unwillingness to act, to take the plunge. We constantly suppress our inner storms and conveniently lean toward procrastinating, just testing the waters of the tasks that await us.”

– Carol Ann Shields

“It would be far more natural if we only ate when we were truly hungry.”

– Paulo Coelho

“The environment is always changing. Haven’t you noticed?”

– Richelle Mead

“Private matters have become public in the worst sense—impersonal and inhumane. Public affairs have become private in the worst sense—mysterious, secretive, and overwhelmingly corrupt. The new kind of business power will unify everything, undermining any efforts to create a better world.”

– Gilbert Keith Chesterton

“Fashion is a strange thing. It claims to be an art, but in reality, it’s all about money. If you don’t follow the rules, they’ll crush you. And the rules say it doesn’t matter how out of ideas, exhausted, or burned out you are—you still have to dress up the models and send them down the runway twice a year.”

– Imogen Edwards-Jones

“Habit wears down a sense of decency, just like anything else.”

– Émile Zola

“Eating is natural. Gaining weight is a choice.”

– Jeffrey Eugenides

“Nowadays, due to the changing winds from factories and the rising temperature of the earth, snow doesn’t fall in cascades anymore but settles slowly during the night, like dissolving bubbles. The world, this weary artist, cheats us again with yet another hastily thrown-together season.”

– Jeffrey Eugenides

“Every day, misfortunes rain down on me. I no longer complain; I’ve gotten used to it and even put on a good face.”

– Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“Once you get used to something, you forget why you needed it in the first place.”

– Stef Penney

“It’s important to make your surroundings appealing. How can someone be happy if they’re surrounded by ugliness?”

– Stef Penney

“Nothing is simpler in the world than a solved problem.”

– Blaise Pascal

“As Hemingway said, only one thing can ruin a day: people. I am the person who ruined my own life.”

– Nikki Sixx

“A girl becomes a woman when she has a husband, gives birth to children, and the gray-blue waves of daily life crash over her head. She sinks into that cold, harsh feeling that might be called boredom or routine.”

– Le Renard

“Sometimes the questions are more important than the answers.”

– Nancy Willard

“Experience never errs. It is only your judgment that can be wrong, expecting from it what is not in its power.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

“There’s no limit to ingenuity! The heart often expresses itself in very peculiar ways.”

– Émile Zola

“Life is an endless premiere.”

– Kurt Tepperwein

“There’s a song for everything, just as there’s a book for everything.”

– Fern Michaels

“Light always makes things better.”

– Fern Michaels

“If you’re giving someone a gift, take the time to make it beautiful.”

– Nora Roberts

“What I’ve learned so far in life is to let the little things go as much as possible and try not to miss the big things.”

– Nikki Sixx

“The small, simple, intentional acts of life provide unexpected protection against the daily deaths we endure.”

– Libba Bray

“A wrong state of affairs is one that causes new frustrations every day.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Signal strength is like how fairy tales begin: once upon a time.”

– Al Ghaoui Hesna

“Nakedness isn’t intimacy.”

– Sex and the City

“Why do we see what we want to believe and refuse to believe what we see?”

– Nip/Tuck

“The empirical moral world mostly consists of malice and envy.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Seek and notice the wonders around you. You’ll get exhausted if you focus only on yourself, and this fatigue makes you deaf and blind to everything else.”

– Carlos Castaneda

“Whoever believes they’re ruined will become ruined. Those who resign themselves to being no more than they are will be destroyed by the monotony of daily life.”

– Paulo Coelho

“Sometimes we build walls around our hearts from everyday hurts, silences, unresolved questions, and stubbornness. Our most important task is to prevent these walls from being built. Above all, we must ensure we’re not a stone in someone else’s wall.”

– Bruno Ferrero

“If you want a life free of positive and negative emotions, move to a cemetery and rest in peace.”

– John Gray

“It’s just as easy to miss what’s big and obvious as what’s small and insignificant. The unnoticed big things often cause the most problems.”

– Neil Gaiman

“In summer, the day stretches long into the night, but not in winter. Winter days are short, like a fleeting breeze, with little light that dims and fades even at midday.”

– Aharon Appelfeld

“An hour of contemplation might not stir many thoughts, but it fills you with colors, sounds, and rhythm. Sometimes an hour of reflection provides feelings that last for days. True contemplation, like music, has no tangible content.”

– Aharon Appelfeld

“Those who observe withdraw into themselves, surrounded by their own inner music. They build a refuge for themselves, sometimes rising above to observe from afar.”

– Aharon Appelfeld

“The beauty of contemplation is that it requires no words. The silence of objects and landscapes flows into you without imposing anything.”

– Aharon Appelfeld

“God gave us alcohol to dissolve. To make men brave and women relaxed.”

– Just Like Heaven

“You pull the cart of destiny without counting your steps; you just go.”

– Camil Petrescu

“I wonder how much time we spend worrying about little things.”

– Little House on the Prairie

“If you obey the small rules, you can break the big ones.”

– George Orwell

“Anyone who claims they’re totally calm and cheerful in the morning, not the least bit nervous or snappy with their loved ones, is a liar.”

– Vavyan Fable

“Home, family, and work are the pillars of stability.”

– John Naisbitt

“Today will never come again. Make the most of every moment.”

– Ralph S. Marston, Jr.

“Lately, so many doors are closing behind me… Sometimes I wish it would slow down. I don’t want to go back because those doors are truly closed, and I couldn’t go back even if I wanted to. I want to keep moving forward on my own path. But sometimes, I feel out of breath and want to say, ‘Stop… just for a moment… Please, just pause the world for a second… just long enough for me to get used to being where I am.’”

– Eric Knight