25 Literary Geniuses Empower You To Live The Fullest Life Possible
- “How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.”– Matt Haig, Reasons To Stay Alive
- “There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”
– Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
- “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
- “Fight till the last gasp.”
– William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part I
- “The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”
– Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
- “When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.”
– Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
- “We may encounter many defeats—maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats—but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be.”
– Maya Angelou, The Art Of Fiction No. 119, The Paris Review
- “You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage
- “There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
– J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
- “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
– Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
- “All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”
– Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven
- “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere’s Fan
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
- “Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.”
– Joanne Harris, Chocolat
- “Nothing that’s worthwhile is ever easy.”
– Nicholas Sparks, Message In A Bottle
- “When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
- “If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something.”
– Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art
- “The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
– Frank Herbert, Dune
- “Logic may indeed be unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
– Franz Kafka, The Trial
- “If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
- “Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.”
– David Leviathan, Wide Awake
- “Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.”
– Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
- “Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.”
– Audre Lorde, Conversations With Audre Lorde
- “People living deeply have no fear of death.”
– Anais Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume 2
- “Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.”
– Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
