Rabail Sheikh > Rabail's Quotes

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.”
― Wallace Stevens

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Memory is more indelible than ink.”
― Anita Loos

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

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

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

“ The Paradoxical Commandments

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― Kent M. Keith, The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
― Julia Child

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“To survive, you must tell stories.”
― Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss