I have developed this weird habit at night where I go to Google and search quotes from my favorite authors. I usually only do this when I can’t sleep or I am feeling under the weather. Sometimes I just need a little inspiration and these quotes are where I find it. There is this feeling that I always get when I find something special in a quote. It’s like I can do anything that I set my mind to. Sometimes it even feels like someone you love is giving you a big hug just when you really needed it. Quotes can be so unique in that not everyone gets the same meaning out of them. Tonight I was having one of those nights where I couldn’t sleep so I Googled some quotes. Usually I just write them down somewhere so that I can look at them again later but this time I decided to share them.
These are 22 quotes that I found worth sharing. They all taught me something that I think is important and maybe you can get something out of them too.
1."All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts."
~ As You Like It, William Shakespeare.
2. “Not all who wander are lost.”
~ J.R.R. Tolkien
3. “Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply tell the truth (without caring two pence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”
~ C.S. Lewis
4. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
~ Charles Dickens
5. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. ~ Charles Dickens
6. Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
7. The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
~ Ernest Hemingway
8. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
~ Ernest Hemingway
9. If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
~ Lewis Carroll
10. “Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself.”
~ Madeleine L’Engle
11. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
~ Oscar Wilde
12. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
~ John Steinbeck
13. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
~ Maya Angelou
14. Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
~ Lord Byron
15. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
~ Maya Angelou
16. “It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
17. Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
~ Harper Lee
18. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!
~ Bob Marley
20. Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
~ Charles Dickens
21. I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
~ Dr. Seuss
22. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
~ e.e. cummings
