Maya Angelou Quotes

An internationally known and respected writer, poet and educator, Maya Angelou has authored such well-known titles as “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Gather Together in My Name.” She has produced and starred in several plays and authored the musical score and screenplay for the film Georgia, Georgia. She has been the recipient of many awards, including the Golden Eagle Award. Here are some of her famous motivational quotes to inspire you today.

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I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

I can be changed by what happens to me. but I refuse to be reduced by it.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

Hunger Game: Catching Fire Movie Quotes

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Hunger Game Trilogy has been selling very well and there have been movie which has been made as well. Hunger Game first in series came and did very well. Currently second movie has been released and it is called Hunger Game Catching Fire and seemed to be doing very well on box office.

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Here are a few interesting quotes from Hunger Game: Catching fire (2nd in series) :

President Snow: “You fought very hard in the Games, Miss Everdeen. But they were games. Would you like to be in a real war? Imagine thousands of your people, dead. Your loved ones, gone.”
Katniss Everdeen: “What do I need to do?”

Katniss Everdeen: “Haymitch please. Please just help me get through this trip!”
Haymitch Abernathy: “This trip doesn’t end when you get back home.”
Peeta Mellark: “So what do we do?”
Haymitch Abernathy: “From now on, your job is to be a distraction. So people forget what the real problems are.”

“Caesar Flickerman: Peeta, the wedding, never to be?
Peeta Mellark: Actually, we got married in secret.
Caesar Flickerman: A secret wedding. Alright, do tell.
Peeta Mellark: We wanted our love to be eternal. You know, Katniss and I were luckier than most. I wouldn’t have any regrets at all, if it weren’t… if…
Caesar Flickerman: If it weren’t… for what? What?
Peeta Mellark: If it weren’t for the baby.”

“Peeta Mellark: Katniss, I don’t know what kind of deals you made with Haymitch, but he made me promises too.
[Pulls off the locket around her neck]
Peeta Mellark: If you die, and I live, I’d have nothing. Nobody else that I care about.
Katniss Everdeen: Peeta.
Peeta Mellark: It’s different for you. Your family needs you.
[Opens locket to see three pictures – Gale, Prim, and her Mother]
Peeta Mellark: You have to live. For them.
Katniss Everdeen: What about you?
Peeta Mellark: Nobody needs me.
Katniss Everdeen: I do. I need you.

Peeta Mellark: Remember Katniss, today’s all about making allies.
Katniss Everdeen: So far I’m not overwhelmed by our choices.

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Johanna Mason: You guys look amazing.
Katniss Everdeen: Thank you.

Katniss Everdeen: Haymitch, please. Please, just help me get through this trip.
Haymitch Abernathy: This trip doesn’t end when you get back home.
Peeta Mellark: So what do we do?
Haymitch Abernathy: From now on, your job is to be a distraction so people forget what the real problems are.

Johanna Mason: My stylist is such an idiot. District 7, lumber. Trees. Ugh. I’d love to put an axe on her face. So what do you think, now that the whole world wants to sleep with you?
Katniss Everdeen: The whole world doesn’t…
Johanna Mason: I wasn’t talking to you.
[Looks at Peeta]
Katniss Everdeen: Okay.
Johanna Mason: [Approaches Peeta] Unzip, please.
[Katniss rolls her eyes. Johanna undresses]
Johanna Mason: Thanks. Let’s do it again sometime.
Haymitch Abernathy: Thank you. Johanna Mason, District 7.

Peeta Mellark: [Eulogy for the fallen tributes of District 11] They fought with honor and dignity until the end. Both Thresh and Rue were so young. But our lives aren’t just measured in years. The measure in our lives are the people we touch around us. For myself, for Katniss. We know that without Thresh and Rue, we wouldn’t be standing here today.

President Snow: “Her entire species must be eradicated.”
Plutarch Heavensbee: “Her species, sir?”
President Snow: “The other victors. Because of her, they all pose a threat. Because of her, they all think they’re invincible.”

Cinna: No waving and smiling this time. I want you to look straight ahead as if the audience and this whole event are beneath you.
Katniss Everdeen: That should be easy.

Primrose Everdeen: Since the last games, something is different. I can see it.
Katniss Everdeen: What can you see?
Primrose Everdeen: Hope.

Primrose Everdeen: You saved my life. You gave me a chance.
Katniss Everdeen: Yes, to live.
Primrose Everdeen: No, to do something.

Katniss Everdeen: I’m really not in the mood for a lecture. I’ll apologize to Effie later. I thought you were Haymitch.

Peeta Mellark: You don’t have to apologize to anyone, including me. I know it’s not fair on me to hold you to things you said in the games. You saved us, I know that, but I can’t go on acting for the cameras and then just ignoring each other in real life. So if you can stop looking at me like I’m wounded, then I can quit acting like it. Then maybe, we have a shot at being friends.

Katniss Everdeen: I’ve never been very good at friends.
Peeta Mellark: For starters, it does help when you know the person. I hardly know anything about you except that you’re stubborn and good with a bow.
Katniss Everdeen: That about sums me up.
Peeta Mellark: No, there’s more than that you just don’t want to tell me.

Peeta Mellark: See Katniss, the way the whole “friend” thing works is that you have to tell each other the deep stuff.
Katniss Everdeen: The deep stuff?
Peeta Mellark: Yeah.
Katniss Everdeen: Like what?
Peeta Mellark: Like… what’s your favorite color?
Katniss Everdeen: Oh, now you’ve stepped over the line.

Peeta Mellark: They won’t touch Prim!
Johanna Mason: Your fiancé’s right. The whole country loves your sister. If they torture her, or do anything to her, forget the districts. There will be riots in the Capitol. Hey, how does that sound Snow? What if we, what if we set your backyard on fire? You can’t put everybody in here!
[everyone looks at her in disbelief]
Johanna Mason: What? He can’t hurt me. There’s nothing left that I love.

President Snow: She’s not who they think she is. She just wants to save her skin. It’s as simple as that. She has become a beacon of hope for them. She has to be eliminated. What do you think?
Plutarch Heavensbee: I agree she should die but in the right way. At the right time. Katniss Everdeen is a symbol. We don’t have to destroy her, just her image. Show them that she’s one of us now. Let them rally behind that. They’re gonna hate her so much they just might kill her for you.
[laughter]

Dalai Lama Instructions For Life

The Dalai Lama’s Instructions for Life

Dalai Lama has said these motivational and inspirational quotes and instructions for life. Here are these wise sayings from spiritual person’s to inspire us to be better human beings.

  1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
  2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
  3. Follow the three R’s:- Respect for self. – Respect for others.- Responsibility for all of your actions.
  4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
  5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
  6. Don’t let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
  7. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
  8. Spend some time alone every day.
  9. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
  10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
  11. Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.
  12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
  13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.
  14. Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
  15. Be gentle with the earth.
  16. Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.
  17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
  18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
  19. Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

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Breaking Dawn Quotes From Twilight Series

There is Breaking Dawn movie out right now, which is second in series of twilight series books out of many successful book series. Here are some good quotes from the movie breaking dawn.

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Edward Cullen: No measure of time with you will be long enough. But we’ll start with forever.

Bella Swan: You have to accept this for what it is.
Edward Cullen: Because you’ve given me no choice.

Edward Cullen: I’ll meet you at the altar.
Bella Swan: I’ll be the one in white.

Charlie Swan: You’re ready?
Bella Swan: Yeah. Just don’t let me fall, Dad.
Charlie Swan: Never.

Dr. Carlisle Cullen: What were you thinking?
Jacob Black: [smirks] That it’s just looking for someone to sink it’s teeth into.
Bella Swan: He’s thirsty.
Emmett Cullen: I know the feeling…

Dr. Carlisle Cullen: What were you thinking?
Jacob Black: [smirks] That it’s just looking for someone to sink it’s teeth into.
Bella Swan: He’s thirsty.
Emmett Cullen: I know the feeling…

twilightCharlie Swan: Edward will be a good husband. I know this because I’m a cop, I know things. Like how to hunt somebody to the ends of the earth
[people laugh]
Charlie Swan: and I know how to use a gun.

Charlie Swan: [on the phone with Bella] Well, you sound better.
Bella Swan: I am. I feel much better.
Charlie Swan: This whole thing must have put a kink in the whole honeymoon, huh?
Bella Swan: You could say that.
Charlie Swan: Otherwise, married life treating you okay? Edward still walks on water and all that?
Bella Swan: Yeah, but I mean, it is different now.
Charlie Swan: The important thing is that you’re better and that you’re coming home soon, right?

Jacob Black: You’re gonna make her drink that?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: [pours blood into a drinking glass] It’s the fastest way to test the theory.
Jacob Black: [moves away from Bella] I think I’m gonna be sick.

Emmett Cullen: Bella, I hope you’ve been getting enough sleep these last 18 years, because you won’t be getting any more for a while.

Seth: How cool is this? A two-man pack. Two against the world.
Jacob Black: You’re getting on my nerves, Seth.
Seth: Right. Shutting up. Can do.

Jacob Black: Don’t do that.
Bella Swan: What?
Jacob Black: Smile like I’m your favorite person on the world.
Bella Swan: You’re one of them. It feels complete when you’re here, Jake.

Bella Swan: Are you okay? Being here?
Jacob Black: Why? Afraid I’ll trash your party?
[hears growling in the woods]
Jacob Black: You’re not the only one. You think I’d be used to telling you goodbye by now. Come on, you’re not supposed to be the one crying, Bella.
Bella Swan: Everyone cries at weddings.

Edward Cullen: It’s not too late to change your mind.
Bella Swan: What? Now you’re having second thoughts?
[studies Edward’s face]
Bella Swan: You are.
Edward Cullen: No. I’ve been waiting a century to marry you, Miss Swan.
Bella Swan: But? But?
Edward Cullen: I haven’t told you everything about myself.
Bella Swan: [sarcastically] hat? You’re not a virgin?

Bella Swan: Childhood is not from birth to a certain age. And at a certain age, the child is grown and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Renée: Thanks! Charlie, get in here!
Charlie Swan: You sure? I don’t wanna.
[to Bella’s surprise]
Charlie Swan: I know, I look hot.
Renée: We thought you needed something blue.
Charlie Swan: And something old besides your mother.
Renée: Nice.

Bella Swan: So this party. Will there be strippers?
Edward Cullen: [laughs] No, just a couple of mountain lions. Maybe a few bears.
Jasper Hale: Don’t worry, Bella, we’ll give him back in plenty of time.
Bella Swan: Okay, go before they break my house.
Emmett Cullen: Let’s go! Let’s go!

Bella Swan: Jake.
Jacob Black: Listen to me, Bella.
Bella Swan: [yells] Let me go!
Edward Cullen: Jacob, calm down. Alright?
Jacob Black: [yelling] Are you out of your mind? Huh? You’ll kill her!
Seth: Walk away, Jacob!
Sam Uley: Enough, Jacob.
Jacob Black: Stay out of this, Sam.
Sam Uley: You’re not going to start something that we’ll have to finish.
Jacob Black: She’ll die.
Sam Uley: She’s not our concern anymore.

Edward Cullen: Do you wanna go for a swim?
Bella Swan: Yeah, that sounds nice. I could use a few human minutes.
Edward Cullen: Don’t take too long, Mrs. Cullen.
Bella Swan: Okay.

Edward Cullen: How badly are you hurt?
Bella Swan: What?
Edward Cullen: No, Bella, look.
[shows bruises on her body]
Edward Cullen: Bella, I can’t tell you how sorry I am.
Bella Swan: I’m not! Really, I’m not. I’m fine.
Edward Cullen: Don’t say you’re fine. Just don’t.
Bella Swan: No, you don’t. Don’t ruin this.
Edward Cullen: I’ve already ruined it.
Bella Swan: Why can’t you see how perfectly happy I am? Or was five seconds ago. I mean now I’m sort of pissed off, actually.
Edward Cullen: You should be angry with me.
Bella Swan: I mean, we knew this was going to be tricky, right? I think we did amazing. I mean, it was amazing for me.

Edward Cullen: Bella? You having a nightmare?
Bella Swan: No. It was just a dream. It was a really good dream.
Edward Cullen: Then why are you crying?
Bella Swan: Because I wanted it to be real.
Edward Cullen: Tell me.
[is kissed by Bella]
Edward Cullen: Bella, I can’t.
Bella Swan: Please. Please?

Edward Cullen: Bella, these are our housekeepers, Gustavo and Kaure.
[in Portuguese]
Edward Cullen: This is my wife, Bella.
Gustavo: Excuse me.
[leaves fearfully with Kaure]

Billy: Hey son.
Jacob Black: What’s going on?
Billy: Bella called him.
Charlie Swan: Hey, I haven’t seen you in a while. You okay?
Jacob Black: So you finally heard from Bella?
Charlie Swan: They’re extending their trip. Seems she caught a bug. They wanna wait until she feels better before they travel.
Jacob Black: She’s sick.

Alice Cullen: Bella? Are you alright?
Bella Swan: I’m not 100% sure.
Alice Cullen: Why? What’s wrong? I just.
Bella Swan: You just what? Alice, what did you see?
Alice Cullen: Here’s Carlisle.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: Bella, what’s going on?
Bella Swan: I don’t know.
[looks at Edward]
Bella Swan: I’m a little worried. Can vampires go into shock?
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: Has Edward been harmed?
Bella Swan: No. I know that it’s impossible, but I think that I’m pregnant.
[reacts in pain]

Edward Cullen: Damn it. Kaure’s making sure you’re still alive.
Kaure: [in Portuguese] What did you do with her?
Edward Cullen: What do you know about this?
Kaure: I know that you are a demon! You killed this little girl!
Bella Swan: What?
Edward Cullen: [to Bella] Her people have legends. She might have seen this before.
[to Kaure in Portuguese]
Edward Cullen: Please. Tell me how to help her.

Bella Swan: Edward, I’m sorry.
Edward Cullen: I can’t live without you.
Bella Swan: You won’t. You’re gonna have a part of me. He’ll need you.
Edward Cullen: Do you honestly think that I could love it or even tolerate it if it killed you?
Bella Swan: It’s not his fault. You have to accept what is.
Edward Cullen: [yells] Because you’ve given me no choice! Bella, we’re supposed to be partners. Remember? But you decided this on your own. You’ve decided to leave me.

Jacob Black: You’d risk your lives for her?
Esme Cullen: Of course we would. Bella’s a part of our family now.
Jacob Black: Yeah, I can see that. This really is a family. As strong as the one I was born into.

Jacob Black: It’s like gravity. Your whole center shifts. Suddenly, it’s not the Earth holding you here. You would do anything, be anything she needs. A friend, a brother, a protector.

Edward Cullen: Maybe I was too late.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: No, Edward. Listen to her heart.

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Twilight Quotes: Twilight Book Quotes

Twilight is one of best selling book and hit movie about Vampire and human being. Here are some of the quotes from the very first of the book series of Twilight.

Twilight Book Quotes

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end. -Bella Swan, Twilight

I’d noticed that his eyes were black – coal black. -Bella Swan, Twilight

That’s Edward. He’s gorgeous, of course, but don’t waste your time. He doesn’t date. Apparently none of the girls here are good-looking enough for him.- Jessica Stanley, Twilight

I felt a surge of pity, and relief. Pity because, as beautiful as they were, they were outsiders, clearly not accepted. Relief that I wasn’t the only newcomer here, and certainly not the most interesting by any standard. -Bella Swan, Twilight

So, did you stab Edward Cullen with a pencil or what? I’ve never seen him act like that. -Mike Newton, Twilight

It was ridiculous, and egotistical, to think that I could affect anyone that strongly. It was impossible. And yet I couldn’t stop worrying that it was true. -Bella Swan, Twilight

It’s a good thing he’s happily married. A lot of the nurses at the hospital have a hard time concentrating on their work with him around. -Charlie Swan, Twilight

I was sure, though, in the instant our eyes met, that he didn’t look harsh or unfriendly as he had the last time I’d seen him. He looked merely curious again, unsatisfied in some way. -Bella Swan, Twilight

Edward Cullen is staring at you. -Jessica Stanley, Twilight

His fingers were ice-cold, like he’d been holding them in a snowdrift before class. But that wasn’t why I jerked my hand away so quickly. When he touched me, it stung my hand as if an electric current had passed through us. -Bella Swan, Twilight

Forks must be a difficult place for you to live. -Edward Cullen, Twilight

Edward Cullen was leaning against the front door of the Volvo, three cars down from me, and staring intently in my direction. -Bella Swan, Twilight

Bella, it’s not my fault if you are exceptionally unobservant. -Edward Cullen, Twilight

On the one hand, I loved the tide pools. They had fascinated me since I was a child; they were one of the only things I ever looked forward to when I had to come to Forks. On the other hand, I’d also fallen into them a lot. Not a big deal when you’re seven and with your dad. It reminded me of Edward’s request — that I not fall into the ocean. -Bella Swan, Twilight

Twilight Movie Quotes:

twilightIsabella Swan: Clair de Lune is great.
Edward Cullen: [Edward spins Isabella around and she gives him a look] What?
Isabella Swan: I can’t dance
[laughs]
Isabella Swan: .
Edward Cullen: Hmm… Well, I could always make you.
Isabella Swan: I’m not scared of you.
Edward Cullen: [laughs] Well you really shouldn’t have said that.

Isabella Swan: Are you going to tell me how you stopped the van?
Edward Cullen: Yeah. Um… I had an adrenaline rush. It’s very common. You can Google it.

Isabella Swan: Will you tell me the truth?
Edward Cullen: No, probably not.
[Bella turns away slighly angry]
Edward Cullen: I’d rather hear your theories.
Isabella Swan: I have considered radioactive spiders and kryptonite.
Edward Cullen: All superhero stuff right? But what if I’m not the hero? What if I am the bad guy?
Isabella Swan: You’re not.
[Edward smiles]

Rosalie Hale: Is she even Italian?
Emmett Cullen: Her name’s Bella.
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: I’m sure she’ll love it no matter what.
Rosalie Hale: [sniffs] Ooh… get a whiff of that. Here comes the human.
[Esme flashes a big grin just before Bella and Edward walk around the corner]
Esme Cullen: [runs up to Bella] Bella! We’re making Italiano for you.
Edward Cullen: Bella, this is Esme, my mother for all intents and purposes.
Isabella Swan: Buon Giorno?
Esme Cullen: Molto Bene!
Dr. Carlisle Cullen: It gives us an excuse to use the kitchen for the first time.
Esme Cullen: I hope you’re hungry.
Isabella Swan: Yeah, absolutely!

Isabella Swan: [to Edward] How did you get over to me so fast?
Edward Cullen: [to Bella] I was standing right next to you, Bella.
Isabella Swan: No. You were next to your car, across the lot.
Edward Cullen: No, I wasn’t.
Isabella Swan: Yes, you were.
Edward Cullen: Bella, you hit your head. I think you’re confused.

Isabella Swan: Look, You gotta give me some answers.
Edward Cullen: Yes. No. To get to the other side. Uh, 1.77245…
Isabella Swan: I don’t want to know what the square root of pi is.
Edward Cullen: You knew that?

Isabella Swan: Hey. Come to visit your truck?
Jacob Black: Hey! Looks good. Got that dent out.
Billy Black: Actually, we came to visit your flat-screen. First Mariners game of the season. Plus, Jacob here keeps bugging me about seeing you again.
Jacob Black: Great, Dad. Thanks.
Billy Black: Just keepin’ it real, son.

Edward Cullen: I don’t have the strength to stay away from you anymore.
Isabella Swan: Then don’t.

Charlie Swan: Did he hurt you?
Isabella Swan: No.
Charlie Swan: Break up with you or something?
Isabella Swan: No, I-I broke up with him.
Charlie Swan: I thought you liked him?
Isabella Swan: Yea, that’s why – that’s why I have to leave. I don’t want this. I have to go home.
Charlie Swan: Home… Your mom is not even in Phoenix.
Isabella Swan: She’ll come home. I’ll call her from the road.

Edward Cullen: Hold on tight, spidermonkey.
[climbs up tree]
Edward Cullen: Do you trust me?
Isabella Swan: In theory…
Edward Cullen: Close your eyes.

Eric Yorkie: Hey, Mikey – you met my home girl, Bella
Mike Newton: Oh, you-yo-your home girl?
Eric Yorkie: Yeah.
Mike Newton: Yeah?
Mike Newton: My girl.

Jessica Stanley: Hey you’re from Arizona right?
Isabella Swan: Yeah.
Jessica Stanley: Aren’t people from Arizona supposed to be like, really tan?
Isabella Swan: Yeah, maybe, that’s why they kicked me out.

Edward Cullen: [pushes microscope towards Bella] Ladies first.
Isabella Swan: You were gone.
Edward Cullen: Yeah, um, I was out of town for a couple of days, personal reasons.
Isabella Swan: [pushes microscope towards Edward] Uh, prophase.
Edward Cullen: Do you mind if I uh, look?
[Bella shakes her head]
Edward Cullen: It’s prophase.
Isabella Swan: Like I said.
Edward Cullen: So you enjoying the rain?
[Bella laughs]
Edward Cullen: What?
Isabella Swan: You’re asking me about the weather?
Edward Cullen: Yeah, I-I guess I am.
Isabella Swan: Well, I don’t really like the rain. Any cold, wet thing I don’t really…
Edward Cullen: [laughs]
Isabella Swan: What?
Edward Cullen: Nothing uh,

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Edward Cullen: Why didn’t you move with your mother and Phil?
Isabella Swan: Well, Phil’s a minor league baseball player, and uh, he travels a lot, and my mom s-stayed home with me, but I knew it made her unhappy, so I figured I’d stay with my dad for a while.
Edward Cullen: And now you’re unhappy.
Isabella Swan: …no.
Edward Cullen: I’m sorry, I’m just – I’m just trying to figure you out, you’re very difficult for me to read.
Isabella Swan: Hey did you get contacts?
Edward Cullen: No.

Edward Cullen: The hunt is his obsession. He’s never gonna stop!

Edward Cullen: And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.
Isabella Swan: What a stupid lamb.
Edward Cullen: What a sick, masochistic lion.

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Finding Happiness: Happiness Quotes

Finding happiness is something we are all looking for. Finding happiness does not have to hard for many of us. I am sure these quotes will inspire you as it has inspired me.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.- Francis Bacon

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.- George Santayana

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes- Andrew Carnegie

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared – Buddha

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.  -Jacques Prévert

If you want to be happy, be.  –Leo Tolstoy

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.  -Palmer Sondreal

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys.  If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.  -Fyodor Dostoevsky

What a wonderful life I’ve had!  I only wish I’d realized it sooner.  -Colette

If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.  –Edith Wharton

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy.  –Cynthia Nelms

It’s pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness.  Poverty and wealth have both failed.  –Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.  –James Openheim

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.  –John Barrymore

The happy have whole days,
and those they choose.
The unhappy have but hours,
and those they lose.
-Colley Cibber

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right? – Charles Schulz

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier.  The way it actually works is the reverse.  You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.  –Margaret Young

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.– Carl Jung

There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. – Albert Schweitzer

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.- Thomas Jefferson

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. – Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama

You can never get enough of what you don’t need to make you happy. – Eric Hoffer

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.- James Oppenheim

Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination. – Mark Twain

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony- Mohandas K. Gandhi

Peace Quotes

Here are some quotes about peace, finding peace in our life.

Let us love the world to peace.  ~Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. –Indira Gandhi

I take it that what all men are really after is some form of, perhaps only some formula of, peace. – James Conrad

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.-Lao Tse

Whenever you are sincerely pleased, you are nourished. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The pacifist’s task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war. –Vera Brittain

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace? – J. Ramsay MacDonald

A smile is the beginning of peace. – Mother Teresa

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. –Albert Einstein

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal. –Martin Luther King, Jr.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. ~Dwight Eisenhower

End each day with thoughts of peace. Begin each day with
thoughts of peace. Continue thinking thoughts of peace
throughout your precious day and happiness will be yours. –Unknown

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. –Buddha

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.- Mohandas Gandhi

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. –Mother Teresa

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. –Mahatma Gandhi

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. -Winston Churchill

Avoid popularity if you would have peace. –Abraham Lincoln

A people free to choose will always choose peace. – Ronald Reagan

I would rather have peace in the world than be President. –Harry S. Truman

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once. –Robert A. Heinlein

We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn’t it time that we should take risks to secure peace? ~J.Ramsay MacDonald

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there. –Chanakya

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. –Ulysses S. Grant

True peace is found in this moment. Acceptance is the 1st step to inner calm. –Unknown

Let loose of what you can’t control. Serenity will be yours. – Unknown

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the
wise long for a state of tranquility. – Swami Rama

In the name of peace
They waged the wars
Ain’t they got no shame –Nikki Giovanni

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with
the world. – Marcus Aurelius

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. –Andrew Jackson

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. ~Napoleon Bonaparte

The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war. ~Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. –George C. Marshall