John > John's Quotes

“The funniest people are the saddest ones”
― Confucius

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
― Neil Gaiman

“It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.”
― Jason Mraz

“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.”
― Madonna

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.”
― Bill Watterson

“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”
― Oliver James

“Be believing, be happy, don't get discouraged. Things will work out.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“Love helped me live life instead of just survive it.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe

“In the balance of love and loss, it was love that made me struggle to… Breathe.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe

“I knew there was going to be pain whether I did anything wrong or not – so maybe I should do something to actually deserve it.”
― Rebecca Donovan, Reason to Breathe

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
― W.B. Yeats

“It's always the people who don't want things who get them.”
― Candace Bushnell, One Fifth Avenue

“sometimes the best thing to do is to
pretend it didn't happen”
― Candace Bushnell, Summer and the City

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
― Bruce Lee

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”
― Douglas Coupland

“Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.”
― Douglas Coupland, JPod

“So where do you start when you want to start your life again?”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

“there are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.”
― Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma

“Destiny is what we work toward. The future doesn't exist yet. Fate is for losers!”
― Douglas Coupland, Girlfriend in a Coma

“Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.

"What do you mean?" he said. "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"

"All of them at once," said Bilbo. "And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain.

...

"Good morning!" he said at last. "We don't want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water." By this he meant that the conversation was at an end.
"What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!" said Gandalf. "Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again