Most Beautiful Quotes and Sayings

It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.

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• Humor

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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• Humor

Borges said there are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for power and the voyage. All of us writers rewrite these same stories ad infinitum.

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• Love

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terrorwhich we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,because it serenely disdains to destroy us.Every angel is terrible.

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• Inspirational

You promised, Seaweed Brain. We would not get separated! Ever again! You’re impossible! Love you too!

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• Love

When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool you end up looking like a moron instead.

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• Truth

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

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• Motivational

I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair.

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• Books

If I behave as though this is a completely normal situation, then maybe it will be ...

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• Humor

I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.

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• Motivational

Head up, heart open. To better days!

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• Faith

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

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• Life

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.

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• Love

Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.

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• Wisdom

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

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• Books