Quotes about everything
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“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Love, Change

“God didn't create you to be average. You were created to excel You have everything”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day

God

“The only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion--even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

Soul, Fashion

“Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Clary made fun of him about his new look; but, then, Clary found everything about Simon's love life borderline hilarious.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Love, Life

“This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Love, Understanding, Wedding

“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking… the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. (1945)”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Way, Problem, Thinking, Change

“Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

“The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Sleep, Dead

“If everything is done for me… how will I ever learn?”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Learning

“Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true than you can hear.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Star, Sun

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.”

Nick Hornby book The Polysyllabic Spree

Source: The Polysyllabic Spree

Books

“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Beauty

“But I knew the truth and that's why I was so sad. Every moment before this one depends on this one. Everything in the history of the world can be proven wrong in one moment.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Truth, World, Sadness, History

“Why did everything always change when all you wanted, all you had ever humbly asked of whatever God there might be, was that certain things be allowed to stay the same?”

Richard Yates (1926–1992) Novelist, short story writer

God, Change

“How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.”

Daniel H. Wilson book Robopocalypse

Source: Robopocalypse

Life, People, Change, Personality

“He could not stand. It was not
That he could not thrive, he was born
With everything but the will –
That can be deformed, just like a limb.
Death was more interesting to him.
Life could not get his attention.”

Ted Hughes (1930–1998) English poet and children's writer

Life, Death

“Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?”

Ken Follett book Winter of the World

Source: Winter of the World

People, Country

“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”

Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist

Change

“But like everything else, love changed.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

Love, Change

“Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Girl

“Everything, as you well know… cannot always be sweetness and light.”

Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux

Source: The Tale of Despereaux

Light

“He almost told her everything right then, that very moment. But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

“Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.”

Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

Life

“Tell them stories. They need the truth. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 32 : Morning
Context: One of the ghosts — an old woman — beckoned, urging her to come close.
Then she spoke, and Mary heard her say:
"Tell them stories. They need the truth. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories."
That was all, and then she was gone. It was one of those moments when we suddenly recall a dream that we’ve unaccountably forgotten, and back in a flood comes all the emotion we felt in our sleep. It was the dream she’d tried to describe to Atal, the night picture; but as Mary tried to find it again, it dissolved and drifted apart, just as these presences did in the open air. The dream was gone.
All that was left was the sweetness of that feeling, and the injunction to tell them stories.

Truth

“Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else……. above all dont forget to follow your destiny through to its conclusion”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Forgetting

“The pieces all fit together. Yet everything was falling apart.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

“There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.”

Charlie Kaufman (1958) American screenwriter

Life, Death, Way, Loss

“Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.”

Knut Hamsun book Hunger

Source: Hunger

World

“Despite everything, I can’t bear the thought of this ring being lost forever, any more than I can bear the thought of leaving you forever. And though I have no choice about the one, at least I can choose about the other.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“That's your response to everything: drink?"
"No, that's my response to nothing.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Drink

“For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.”

Henry Miller book Sexus

Tropic of Capricorn (1939)
Source: Sexus

God, Imagination

“I am a painter with letters. I want to restore everything, mix everything up and say everything.”

Jean-Luc Godard (1930) French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic

“Everything I need to know… I learned in kindergarten.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Learning

“I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”

Lucille Ball (1911–1989) American actress and businesswoman

Love, Religion

“This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap…”

Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director

Source: Viola in Reel Life

Guy, Girl

“You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.”

Boris Vian (1920–1959) French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer

Love, Music, Girl

“If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Thinking, Sun, Fight

“It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.”

Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer

“The only thing that never changes is that everything changes.”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Change

“You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.”

Raymond Chandler book The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye

“God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.”

Bede Griffiths (1906–1993) Benedictine Monk

Life, God, Knowledge

“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.”

Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator

Source: Il mestiere di vivere: Diario 1935-1950

World

“The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.”

Nick Hornby (1957) English novelist

Waiting, Personality

“The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.”

Jim Butcher book Cold Days

Source: Cold Days

Time

“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything… I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Courage, Fight

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Variant: ... and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
Source: Fight Club

Life, Time

“And everything would be different, different.”

Ismail Kadare book Broken April

Source: Broken April

“Everything has it's beauty but not everyone sees it.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Beauty, Wise, Deep, Inspirational

“Everything was made bright by her. She was the smile that shed light all around her.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Smile, Light

“Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Dreams, Wolf

“It’s okay. Everything’s going to be okay. You can let go of the sword."
"I can’t. I can’t leave him alone. I have to protect him."
"You have.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

“You've maddened me for you… have changed everything. So, I'm going to f*ck you long and hard, beauty, because if I'm to be enslaved by you-I want to be your master as well.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

Beauty, Change

“Love can't mature in one room. It has to come out of the full sharing of everything: joys, aspirations, downfalls, all of it. That's the only real path to love.”

Leon Uris book Trinity

Source: Trinity

Love, Joy

“The world should take note: not everything is getting worse.”

Ian McEwan book Saturday

Source: Saturday

World

“He had fallen in love with this wild, beautiful country and everything it contained. It was the kind of love people dream of having with other people: selfless and free of doubt, reverent and everlasting.”

Michael Blake book Dances with Wolves

Source: Dances with Wolves

Love, People, Beauty, Dreams

“He doesn’t anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi)
Yes, I’m more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Anger

“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Life, World

“Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

People, World, Cooking

“That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.”

Tom Perrotta book The Leftovers

Source: The Leftovers

People, Dreams

“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”

Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870) French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist

Source: The Man in the Iron Mask

Love, Death, Strong

“Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Awakening

Feeling

“It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.”

Matt Haig (1975) British writer

Source: The Humans

Life

“What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!"
"Come on, Mr. Spock, I'll explain everything.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“He was my first boyfriend, and I made him my everything - he was my new life, my new love, my new compass point. I guess that's the danger with firsts - you lose all sense of proportion.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

Love, Life, Sense

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) American author and Unitarian clergyman

Statement published in A Year of Beautiful Thoughts‎ (1902) by Jeanie Ashley Bates Greenough, p. 172, Third statement for June 11. This has often been misattributed to Helen Keller in some published works since at least 1980, perhaps because she somewhere quoted it.
Variant:
I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything,
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
The Book of Good Cheer : A Little Bundle of Cheery Thoughts‎ (1909) by Edwin Osgood Grover, p. 28; also in Masterpieces of Religious Verse (1948) by James Dalton Morrison, p. 416, where it is titled "Lend a Hand"
Variant: I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.