There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.
Life can change in an instant; don't be so worried about the future that you forget to celebrate what you have right now.
There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn't exist, except it is all I am, all the time.
Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web.
This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.
The first person you fell in love with stole your heart. The first person you made love with stole your soul. And if these were one and the same, you were doomed.
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.
You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.
Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.
The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.
For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.
Happiness is what you choose to remember.
Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.
The right idea is the one you can't stop thinking about; the one that's in your head first thing in the morning.
They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.
We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
"Everyone still deserves to have their say."
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: