Sealife

inspirational life yourself

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

J.M. Barrie

adventure love

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Charles Bukowski

alcohol

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Charles Bukowski

The reason I talk to myself is because I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

George Carlin

You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

Suzanne Collins

people hope

Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.

Suzanne Collins

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

E.E. Cummings

courage

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.

Alexandre fils Dumas

genius stupidity

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A Edison

failure inspirational

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

change thought world

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

inspirational life miracles

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

adult success value

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

simplicity understand

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

children reading

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

imagination

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

knowledge learning understand

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

life

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

music

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

mistakes

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

W.C. Fields

humor hate

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Andre Gide

life love hate

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Ernest Hemingway

books friends

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

good writing

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Jimi Hendrix

death life

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

Jim Henson

inspirational determination dream

If you will it, it is no dream.

Theodor Herzl

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

Theodor Herzl

life people change

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

Khaled Hosseini

life

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

Garrison Keillor

humor religion

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Harper Lee

life empathy

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

books children adult

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

John Lennon

beatles dream peace

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

books reading tea

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

age reading adult

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

god

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

christianity faith religion

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

Jorge Luis Borgis

books library

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Martin Luther

hope inspirational

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

Charles M. Schultz

chocolate food humor

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She's not perfect”you aren't either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break”her heart. So don't hurt her, don't change her, don't analyze and don't expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she's not there.

Bob Marley

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

music

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

friends

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Steve Martin

humor obvious simile

He's like a drug for you, Bella.

Stephenie Meyer

drug love simile

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

inspirational imperfection genius

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

life success failure

You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself.

trust belief lies

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

girls love

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

love wisdom

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

love good evil

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

books thought

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

Pablo Neruda

love poetry

We read to know we're not alone.

William Nicholson

reading

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

love friends marriage

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Terry Pratchett

humor open-mind thought

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

George R.R. Martin

reading books reading

... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.

George R.R. Martin

books mind

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

Ayn Rand

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

woman character

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Eleanor Roosevelt

fear inspirational

It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

abilities choices abilities

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

courage friends courage

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.

life failure success

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

reality imagination

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

death inspirational

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

birth growth

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

life death love

Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.

integrity

The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

truth

What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

J.D. Salinger

books reading

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

fate life planning

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

fantasy

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.

comedy life yourself

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

learning reading seuss

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

troubles

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

humor philosophy

A person's a person, no matter how small.

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

Alfred Tennyson

friends love

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

Mother Teresa

people justice love

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

Mother Teresa

love greatness

Not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

travel lost wander

Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

books friends

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

education

²Classic² - a book which people praise and don't read.

books classic reading

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

death life

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

truth

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.