Quotes about Love and Life by Sarah Dessen

"There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"Don't think or judge, just listen."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater...The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that's the key. It's like a big pie chart, and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed. "

"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there."
— Sarah Dessen

"Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself."
— Sarah Dessen

"It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys."
— Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key)

"You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those songs."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.
"Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?"
I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it."
— Sarah Dessen (Keeping the Moon)

"So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd you mean it, then?"
"I just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why not?"
"Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, and the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You can't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build your world from it."
— Sarah Dessen

"There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart."
— Sarah Dessen

"You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances."
— Sarah Dessen

"Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"Everyone has their weak spot. The one thing that, despite your best efforts, will always bring you to your knees, regardless of how strong you are otherwise."
— Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key)

"Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on."
— Sarah Dessen (Someone Like You)

"It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong."
— Sarah Dessen

"That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. "
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a project, but a prize. you know?"
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them."
— Sarah Dessen (Keeping the Moon)

"I wondered which was harder, in the end. The act of telling, or who you told it to. Or maybe if, when you finally got it out, the story was really all that mattered."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"Silence is so freaking loud
- Owen"
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone. "
— Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key)

"But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised.
You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"I had no illusions about love anymore. It came, it went, it left casualties or it didn't. People weren't meant to be together forever, regardless of what the songs say."
— Sarah Dessen

"There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote"
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. "
— Sarah Dessen

"I knew that there were no guarantees. No way of knowing what came next for me, or him, or anybody. Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe even forever.
That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening. Right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwards. Look, there. Now. Now. Now."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

"You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it."
— Sarah Dessen

"If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here. "
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together."
— Sarah Dessen (This Lullaby)

"I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There were so many questions in life. You couldn't ever have all the answers. But I knew this one.
It's so she can fly,' I said. Then I started to run."
— Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)

"The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me."
— Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)

Never give up/Hang in there Quotes

Sometimes in life we fall apart, get discourage, and feel miserable. On those times, reading quotes that will make you feel better, give you strength and give you reasons to hold on are one of the best way you can do. So, here are a couple of never give up quotes for you guys.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt


Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb


When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe


The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning. ~Ivy Baker Priest


What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement - and we will make the goal. ~Jerome Fleishman


It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary


If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com


Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. ~M. Kathleen Casey


If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill


A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ~Author Unknown


The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief. ~William Shakespeare, Othello


I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. ~Mother Teresa


We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. ~Garrison Keillor


I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders. ~Jewish Proverb


We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa


Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are. ~Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha


When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful. ~Barbara Bloom


I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agatha Christie


When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche


When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy, address, 12 April 1959


It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. ~Ashleigh Brilliant


That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not. ~James K. Feibleman


The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. ~John Vance Cheney


Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~Edwin Markham


Adversity is the first path to truth. ~Lord Byron


The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. ~Author Unknown


Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. ~Author Unknown


Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. ~Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires


There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. ~Washington Irving, The Sketch Book, 1820


The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt. ~Max Lerner, The Unfinished Country, 1950


God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. ~Rainer Maria Rilke


Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. ~Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind


God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverb


Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. ~William Faulkner


We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. ~Winston Churchill


The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. ~Bernard M. Baruch


It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ~Cicero


I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. ~William Stafford


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!
~Dr. Seuss


Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. ~James Russell Lowell, "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago," Literary Essays


Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around. ~Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb, "Rock Bottom"


If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. ~Latin Proverb


Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. ~Author Unknown


But ne'er the rose without the thorn. ~Robert Herrick


God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. ~John Aughey


Never give in... never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force... never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. ~Winston Churchill


You must be at the end of your rope. I felt a tug. ~Author Unknown

Here is another video of Nick Vijicic - A Very Inspiring Man

Some quotes of Nick Vijicic

"Fear is a bigger disability than having no arms or legs."

"I believe in a God that can do all things, but if he chooses not to give me arms and legs, I know its for the better. And I may not understand it, but all I need to know is that He is going to carry me through, that there is a purpose for it."

"I used to think that I needed my circumstance to change before I had any hope. I wanted to know that there was someone else out there in my position, to know that there is hope, that there is more than just the little box that I see in my life."

A very inspirational video that could change your life

This inspirational video of Nick Vujicic is probably one of the best inpirational/motivational video out there. When I first saw this video, I thought to myself , "What is wrong with me?" and then I realized that this man, Nick Vijicic, is out there without no limbs, but is happy with life and love living life. This is a MUST WATCH video whether you`re in the middle of a struggle or just having a normal life.


Nick Vujicic and his attitude serve as a great examples of the celebration of life over limitations.

The human spirit can handle much more than we realize.

"I LOVE LIVING LIFE. I AM HAPPY."


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"If I fail, I try again, and again, and again..."
If YOU fail, are YOU going to try again?

It matters how you're going to FINISH...
Are you going to finish STRONG?

We are put in situations to build our character... not destroy us.

The tensions in our life are there to strengthen our convictions... not to run over us.

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Nick is thankful for what he HAS.
He's not bitter for what he does NOT have.

I have never met a bitter person who was thankful.
I have never met a thankful person who was bitter.

In life you have a choice: Bitter or BETTER?


- Kindly share this video\blog to anyone you know who feels down and need some encouragement and strength to get back up. I`m 100% sure, IT WILL HELP.

Inspirational Quotes

Before you read all these inspirational quotes, I want you to watch this very inspirational video which could change your life.



The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

You see things; and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw

You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Christopher Columbus

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Henry Ford

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And Today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Babatunde Olatunji

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.
John Wooden

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Author Unknown
Sometimes attributed to Buddha, but this is disputed.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
Theodore Roosevelt

We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi

I shall pass through this life but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness I can show, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again.
Etienne de Grellet

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
Marie Beynon Ray

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

If you want to be happy, be.
Leo Tolstoy

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 that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen

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

Your life is your message to the world. Make it inspiring.
Lorrin L. Lee

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Cicero

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

Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
Author Unknown

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

Never be afraid to try, remember...
Amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic.
Author Unknown

Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
Frank Outlaw

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Dale Carnegie

Everything is okay in the end, if it's not ok, then it's not the end.
Author Unknown

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
Victoria Holt

Life is too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.
Author Unknown

This above all: to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare

Wisdom Quotes

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings

Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

*I`d say my favorite one is from Walter Lippmann which says "It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."


I hope this quotes help you in some way :)

Motivational quotes from famous people

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

If the wind will not serve,
take to the oars.
Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe
Latin Proverb

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
Author Unknown

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker

He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley