200+ Powerful Quotes That Will Change Your Life Today

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons.- Mr. Penderwick

They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

You learn to write by writing, and by reading and thinking about how writers have created their characters and invented their stories. If you are not a reader, don't even think about being a writer.

I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

Don't turn over the rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

That's a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.

All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

It's been said that love finds you when you're ready.

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

In the end, just three things matter:How well we have livedHow well we have lovedHow well we have learned to let go

In the endthese things matter most:How well did you love?How fully did you live?How deeply did you let go?

But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.