Remember Not The Words

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won.
There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall.
( Mahatma Gandhi )

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
( Martin Luther King Jr. )

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.
( Ayn Rand )

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
( Siddhartha Gautama )

All things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
( Leonardo Da Vinci )

I was smiling yesterday, I am smiling today and I will smile tomorrow.
Simply because life is too short to cry for anything.
( Santosh Kalwar )

My concern is not whether God is on our side.
My greatest concern is to be on God’s side.
For God is always right.
( Abraham Lincoln )

I live in my own little world.
But it’s OK, they know me here.
( Lauren Myracle )

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.
( Stephanie Perkins )

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
( Leo Tolstoy )

Good things come to those who believe.
Better things come to those who wait.
And the best things come to those who don’t give up.
( Tina Graves )

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
( Henry David Thoreau )

Ordinary folk aren’t short of good ideas.
These are the people who should be running the country.
( Stephen Armstrong )

Our religion and our beliefs don’t make us a good person.
Our behaviour and our actions make us a good person.

It’s amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
( Octavia E. Butler )

I just try to be like a sponge and take stuff in.
You can never stop learning.
( Sheridan Smith )

Some things are meant to be forgotten.

I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
( Abraham Lincoln )

I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud.
( Shauna Niequist )

The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
( Chuck Palahniuk )

The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
( Jack London )

There are two tragedies in life.
One is to lose your heart’s desire.
The other is to gain it.
( George Bernard Shaw )

A bad deed you regret is more important than the good deed you feel proud of.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
( Steve Jobs )

In life, you’re going to be left out, talked about, lied to, and used.
But you have to decide who’s worth your tears and who’s not.
( Tina Graves )

Some things we lose will stay lost, forever.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.
( Oliver James )

You have every right to a beautiful life.
( Selena Gomez )

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.
( Jim Butcher )

I don’t get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.
( Meg Rosoff )

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you’re told and didn’t try to understand things.
( Terry Pratchett )

My life has been one great big joke.
A dance that’s walked.
A song that’s spoke.
I laugh so hard I almost choke.
( Maya Angelou )

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
( Tennessee Williams )

People are going to say what they want to say and think what they want to think, and I can’t change their minds.
( Hilary Duff )

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
( John Irving )

Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.
( Orson Scott Card )

When things go wrong, don’t go with them.
( Elvis Presley )

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
( Mitch Albom )

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
( Albert Einstein )

The past cannot be changed.
We can only move forward into the unknown.

Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe.
( Octavia E. Butler )

People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness.
Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.
( Dalai Lama )

Live your own life and never try to copy one you think looks better.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.
It is as is they are showing you the way.
( Donald Miller )

None of us need to be satisfied forever with where we are today.

Until the end of the world, all whys will be answered, but now, you can only ask.
( Bob Marley )

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.
( William Blake )

Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith.
It is an element of faith.
( Paul Tillich )

Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.
( Jessica Howell )

Too many people tell us what we can and cannot do.
But they don’t know who we are.
And they don’t know what’s inside us.

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
( Maya Angelou )

Have the wisdom and the courage to accept that you are not perfect.
Nothing is.
And no one is.

Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing.
( Leo Babauta )

We can’t erase our past.
We can’t change our past.
But life sometimes offers us the opportunity to correct our past.

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They tickle your common sense and believe you can achieve things which are impossible.
( Mary Anne Radmacher )

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
( Mark Twain )

Angry people are not always wise.
( Jane Austen )

When you know better you do better.
( Maya Angelou )

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.
We fell them down and turn them into paper.
That we may record our emptiness.
( Kahlil Gibran )

Knowing when to give up is sometimes a blessing.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason.
Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.
( Paulo Coelho )

He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
( Confucius )

If you have nothing, then you have everything.
Because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.
( Jarod Kintz )

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious.
The desire to reach hearts is wise.
( Maya Angelou )

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”
( Brian Tracy )

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people.
To focus your energies on answers, not excuses.
( William Arthur Ward )

Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean.
Sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.
( Bob Dylan )

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.
( Richard Bach )

People who know little are usually great talkers.
While men who know much say little.
( Jean-Jacques Rousseau )

You do not write your life with words, you write it with actions.
What you think is not important.
It is only important what you do.
( Patrick Ness )