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If you want something, go get it. Period.
Sep 10, 2025
I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason.
Christopher McCandless:"I will miss you too, but you are wrong if you think that the joy of life comes principally from the joy of human relationships. God's place is all around us, it is in everything and in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at things.
Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.
Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.
Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting.
The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Like all art forms, film is a media as powerful as weapons of mass destruction; the only difference is that war destroys and film inspires.
Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want.
Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?
Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take…OUR FREEDOM?!
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.
I'm finally able to tell you... that I will be playing Belle in Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big part of my growing up, it almost feels surreal that I'll get to dance to 'Be Our Guest' and sing 'Something There'. My six year old self is on the ceiling - heart bursting. Time to start some singing lessons. I can't wait for you to see it.
Me, I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know its not some place you can look for because its not where you go. It’s how you feel for a moment in your life when you’re a part of something and if you find that moment, it lasts forever.
Life is...the moments that take your breath away.
While there's life, there is hope.
I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now.
Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
Being perfect is not about that scoreboard out there. It's not about winning. It's about you and your relationship with yourself, your family and your friends. Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn't let them down because you told them the truth. And that truth is you did everything you could. There wasn't one more thing you could've done. Can you live in that moment as best you can, with clear eyes, and love in your heart, with joy in your heart? If you can do that gentleman - you're perfect!
You know, the ancient Egyptians had a beautiful belief about death. When their souls got to the entrance to heaven, the guards asked two questions. Their answers determined whether they were able to enter or not. 'Have you found joy in your life?' 'Has your life brought joy to others?'
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.
No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
The greatest thing you'll ever learn Is just to love and be loved in return.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.
All that is gold does not glitter.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!
Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)
My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."