Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.

Mother Teresa

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

John Green

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he's done all right for himself.

My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt."

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Thomas Edison's last words were 'It's very beautiful over there'. I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.

There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

Jess C. Scott

When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.

The human body is the best work of art.

Friends are the family you choose.

I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement.

Hypocrites get offended by the truth.

The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.

Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.

When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy of being happy and at peace with ourselves.

You can never have too much money.

Sullen faces like slates of grey—
What I’d seen on a walk today.

Bodies rushing bodies bolting
Time for life a disregarding.

Money to make and to grow old
What about the hands to hold?

Deadlines, projects, people to meet
What about our own two feet.

Sullen faces like slates of grey...
What I’d see most anyday.” 

George Harrison

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

It's all in the mind.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

Here comes the sun, here comes the sun 
And I say it's all right 
Little darlin' it's been a long cold lonely winter 
Little darlin' it feels like years since it's been here 
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun 
And I say it's all right 
Little darlin' the smiles returning to their faces 
Little darlin' it seems like years since it's been here . . .

Life goes on within you and without you.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Give me love
Give me love
Give me peace on earth
Give me light
Give me life
Keep me free from birth
Give me hope
Help me cope, with this heavy load
Trying to, touch and reach you with,
heart and soul

Stephen Chbosky

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

Enjoy it. Because it's happening.

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.

And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that's pretty to you is pretty to other people, and that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing 'unity.'

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has.

Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor.

I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.

Nicolas Chamfort

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

All that I've learned, I've forgotten. The little that I still know, I've guessed.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

Happiness is not easy to find. It's very difficult to find it in yourself — and impossible to find anywhere else.

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness of mind.

In order not to find life unbearable, you must accept two things: the ravages of time and the injustices of man.

Don't you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we'd be happy if we did?

Public opinion reigns in society because stupidity reigns amongst the stupid.

We ought to be able to combine opposites: the love of goodness with indifference to other people's opinions, a liking for work with indifference to fame, concern for our health with indifference to life.

He who leaves the game wins it.

Markus Zusak

Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are

The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you

I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

I am haunted by humans.

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

Even death has a heart.

A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.

Charles M. Schulz

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.

I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!

Happiness is a warm puppy.

What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.

I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.

Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your faults.

If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.

Jorge Luis Borges

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

Life itself is a quotation.

A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.