Alight > Alight's Quotes

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“I've got nothing to do today but smile.”
― Simon and Garfunkel

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“I'm going to wake Peeta," I say.
"No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces right in front of his."
Well, there's so little opportunity for fun left in my life, I agree. We position ourselves on either side of Peeta, lean over until our faces are inches frim his nose, and give him a shake. "Peeta. Peeta, wake up," I say in a soft, singsong voice.
His eyelids flutter open and then he jumps like we've stabbed him. "Aa!"
Finnick and I fall back in the sand, laughing our heads off. Every time we try to stop, we look at Peeta's attempt to maintain a disdainful expression and it sets us off again.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive, Your Dreams Will Not Die

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“We need to forgive ourselves and everyone else for NOT being perfect.”
― Linda Masemore Pirrung, Explosion in Paris

“Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
― Andy Rooney

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“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 which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon