Browsing Topic Best Novelists Quotes

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Courage is grace under pressure.

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them.

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Serenity comes from the ability to say Yes to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say No to the wrong choices made by others.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

Wherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make you feel bad.

Get the hell out of my way!

The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

Never take anything for granted.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer. There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.