Quotes Worth Knowing

The world is filled with words, phrases and sayings that I believe can change the everything and anything that there every was, we need only let it. The following quotes are ones that I've stumbled across and actively went searching for, they have endless meanings and I hope that with every one you read you learn what it's like to let literature change you for the better and the wiser.

T. McClean

"You're perfect the way you are, and if you want to change that, don't let anyone tell you otherwise, it just makes you more you, and that is all anyone can ever ask."

David J.

"Whatever you have experienced in your life is carved in stone. But today - at this very moment you have the power to make the shift from where you are to where you want to be. You are never stuck.. you always have a choice. You just have to give yourself permission to grow, to love, to thrive."

A. A. Milne

"Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem and smarter than you think."

Bob Marley

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

Mahatma Gandhi

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end up really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capability to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."

Albert Einstein

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

George Bernard Shaw

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

J. M. Barrie

"Never say goodbye because saying goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting."

Plato

"Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything."

Aristotle

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

Gerard Way

"Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person."

Hermann Hesse

"I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me."

J. R. R. Tolkein

" All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king."

Elvis Presley

"When things go wrong, don't go with them."

Jim Rohn

"The Worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing. "

Napoleon Hill

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. "

William Shakespeare

"True hope is swift, and it flies with swallows wings."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"People are like stained glass windows. They shine and sparkle when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within."

Dejan Stojanovic

"Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in the darkness."

Veronica Roth

'We both have a war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us."

O. M. 

"Some days, I feel everything at once. Other days, I feel nothing at all. I don't know what's worse: downing beneath the waves or dying from the thirst."

Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

Andréa Balt

"Your weirdness will make you stronger. Your dark side will keep you whole. Your vulnerability will connect you to the rest of our suffering world. Your creativity will set you free. There's nothing wrong with you."

Juliette Lewis

"The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die."

Dalai Lama XIV

"There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength'. No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster."

Corrie ten Boom

"Worries does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

Ann Landers

"Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it."

Eleanor Roosevelt

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"The moment we begin to fear the opinions of other and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls."

Ernest Hemingway

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

Rainer Maria Rilke

"Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."

James Frey

“Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.” 

Lauren Oliver

“You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it.” 

Henry David Thoreau

“I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” 

Betty Friedan

“It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.” 

Cassandra Clare

“Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.” 

William Wordsworth

“Though nothing can bring back the hour, Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy, Which having been must ever be...” 

Roman Payne

“You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination.” 

Bertrand Russell

“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habits; thought is anarchic and lawless, indifferent to authority, careless of the well-tried wisdom of the ages. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid ... Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.” 

Paulo Coelho

“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.” 

Douglas Coupland

“We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.” 

Louise Erdrich

"Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could."