Latest Quotes

“I’m saying, for your own sake, for the sake of your future happiness, you have got to look away from it to start your journey forward. Once you do, your life will change. It’s not going to be overnight. It’s definitely not going to be momentary. But one day, you will wake up and find the heaviness o…”

— Nikita Gill, Stop Looking Behind You

“Don’t compare yourself to others and feel inadequate. Their journey is not the same as yours and their success doesn’t mean you’re a failure — it means your path is different.”

— Rania Naim, 20 Reminders You Need When You Feel Like Giving Up

“Set yourself free, sweet soul. You can smile now. You are free to breathe without caution. The past is nothing but sand on the soles of your shoes, mud on your old car tires, and dusty Polaroid pictures on your refrigerator. Set yourself free and stop setting yourself on fire for every wrong thing t…”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, You Have To Forgive Yourself If You Want To Be Free

“See, sometimes courage isn’t climbing Mount Everest or changing the world. Sometimes your mountain to climb is made up of weekdays and months, made up of pushing yourself forward even when you want to nestle into the past. Sometimes changing the world means changing your world, as gradually as you n…”

— Bianca Sparacino, Congrats On Waking Up Today, For Courage Is In The Little Things

“Trust that some of the best days of your life haven’t even happened yet. There are going to be parties that leave you dancing until 6am, spontaneous adventures that teach you more than you ever learned in a classroom. There are going to be nights that will stay burned beneath your eyelids, memories…”

— Bianca Sparacino, Some Of The Best Days Of Your Life Haven’t Happened Yet

“Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us”

— Brian Jacques, Brian Jacques

“There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”

— Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess

“Tears are words that need to be written”

— Paul Coelho, Paulo Coelho

“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. Think of it--always.”

— Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”

— Dr. Suess, A Book For Obsolete Children

“You wrote down all these things to say goodbye to, but so many of them are good things. Why not just say goodbye to the bad things? Say goodbye to all the times you felt lost, to all the times it was a ‘no’ instead of a ‘yes,’ to all the scrapes as and bruises, to all the heartache. Say goodbye to e…”

— Lily Aldrin, How I Met Your Mother

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”

— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.”

— Douglas Coupland, Douglas Coupland Quotes at BrainyQuote.com

“‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot.”

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”

— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)

“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder an…”

— Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1

“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and ‘success’, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.”

— Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”

— Bill Watterson, Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue

“Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.”

— Terry Pratchett, The Shepherd's Crown (Tiffany Aching)

“Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.”

— Dhaval Gajera, Today