Short One Tree Hill Quotes:

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

- William James

source: William James (2010). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy”, p.80, The Floating Press

topic: Life, Positive, Encouraging, Live Life To Its Fullest, Afraid Of Life

They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.

- Tallulah Bankhead

topic: Girl, Writing, Diaries, Good Girl, One Tree Hill Friendship

At the end of the day, you're just phonograph records.

- Tom Petty

topic: Perspective, The End Of The Day, Records, Phonograph, Tree Hill

There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars and the turning of the Earth and the changing of the seasons. But human life is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own right and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own.

- Katherine Anne Porter

source: Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Stars, Order, Feelings, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Life

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Selfish, I Am Selfish, Selfish Person

once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Two, Choices, Losing Yourself, One Tree Hill Life, One Tree Hill Love

Cupcake , you've been breaking my heart for as long as I've known you

- Janet Evanovich

source: Janet Evanovich (2010). “Eleven on Top”, p.51, Macmillan

topic: Heart, Cupcakes, Long, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Life

One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

- John Green

topic: Short One Tree Hill

Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri

- Dan Brown

topic: Forever, Tonight, Remember, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Friendship

The best things in life are free - and $19.95.

- Billy Mays

topic: Best Things In Life, Money And Happiness, Money Cant Buy Happiness, Money Doesn't Buy Happiness, One Tree Hill Inspirational

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

topic: Life, Taken, Opportunity, Joint Ventures, New Opportunity

Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

- William Shakespeare

source: Sonnet 116

topic: Love, Bending, Bears, Love Poems, One Tree Hill Friendship

The best things in life are free

- Luther Vandross

topic: Best Things In Life, Money And Happiness, Money Cant Buy Happiness, Money Doesn't Buy Happiness, One Tree Hill Inspirational

Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Character, Weakness, Why Not, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Friendship

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

- Stephen King

topic: Change, Time, Life Changing, Wide Awake, One Tree Hill Opening

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

- Albert Camus

topic: Broken Heart, Teacher, Lost Love, Broken Promises, One Tree Hill Friendship

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Taken, Anarchy, Ruins, One Tree Hill Opening, One Tree Hill Voiceover

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

- Norman Cousins

topic: Inspirational, Life, Heartbreak, Meaningful Death, Inspirational Condolences

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

- e. e. cummings

source: "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirations Being Yourself, Inspiring Graduation

It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

- Tallulah Bankhead

topic: Funny, Girl, Motivation, Good Girl, Cute Girl

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Drug Recovery

As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Sound, Movement, Sometimes, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Inspirational

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.

- T. H. White

source: T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.192, Penguin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Heart, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Inspirational

Do not let your fire go out.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

topic: Recovery, Fire, Overcoming Addiction, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Drug Recovery

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

topic: Change, Taken, Opportunity, New Opportunity, Stormy Seas

For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Passion, Clock Is Ticking, Flames, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Life

Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true.

- Millie

topic: Believe, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Friendship, One Tree Hill Inspirational, One Tree Hill Life

You can't run away from yourself

- Bob Marley

source: Bob Marley (1982*). “Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics”

topic: Gunslinger, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Friendship, One Tree Hill Inspirational, One Tree Hill Life

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

- John Steinbeck

source: John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.363, Penguin

topic: Death, Two, Eden, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Inspirational

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

source: 1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.20.

topic: Depression, Being Yourself, Men, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Inspirational

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Love, Romantic, Tonight, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Friendship

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

- George Eliot

topic: Hope, Learning, Sadness, One Tree Hill Love, One Tree Hill Opening

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

- John Steinbeck

topic: Change, Men, Wind, Ruffles, Wildflowers

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

- Octavio Paz

topic: Loneliness, Being Alone, Men, One Tree Hill Opening, One Tree Hill Voiceover

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Death, One Tree Hill Death, One Tree Hill Inspirational

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

topic: Lonely, Memories, Loneliness, One Tree Hill Opening, One Tree Hill Voiceover

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Running, Where You Stand, One Tree Hill Death