Violet > Violet's Quotes

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
― George Plimpton

“There are 86,400 seconds in a day. It's up to you to decide what to do with them.”
― Jim Valvano, Valvano: They Gave Me a Lifetime Contract, and Then They Declared Me Dead

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

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.”
― Jonathan Kellerman

“The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.”
― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
― Maya Angelou

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh