Daniel Sotomayor > Daniel's Quotes

“Love would never leave us alone”
― Bob Marley

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”
― Paulo Coelho, Brida

“If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.”
― Bhagavad Gita

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Cesare Pavese

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
― Og Mandino

“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”
― Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

“Do something worth remembering.”
― Elvis Presley

“Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.”
― Clare Morrall, The Language of Others

“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.”
― Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

“People are always complaining that life's not fair, but that simply isn't true. Life is extraordinarily fair. It's just not centered on you.”
― Lynn Marie Sager, A River Worth Riding

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.”
― Dean Koontz, Life Expectancy

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”
― Anthony Robbins

“Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
― Les Brown, Live Your Dreams: Les Brown's Formula and Action Planner for Achieving Success and Happiness

“Someday is now.”
― Gaddy Bergmann

“I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.”
― Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

“Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Vivian Greene

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”
― Stephen Fry

“Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“What we need are more people who specialize in the impossible.”
― Theodore Roethke

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
― Michelangelo Buonarroti

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.”
― Milan Kundera

“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
― E.L. Doctorow

“Anything can, and will, happen. Just like that”
― Marsha Qualey

“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
― Mario Vargas-Llosa