“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them. ”
Agatha Christie
“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
Bertrand Russell
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
Sylvia Plath
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”
John F. Kennedy
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”almost any how.”
sylvia plath
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
Emily Dickinson
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
Frank Herbert
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”
Louis L’Amour
“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce.”
Mark Twain
“Basically, I have two speeds…. Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.”
James Patterson
“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were “I go to seek a Great Perhaps.” That’s why I’m going. So I don’t have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”
John Green
“Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice .I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.”
Robert Frost
“You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
G.K. Chesterton
“Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘it will be happier’…”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Many boys will bring you flowers. But someday you’ll meet a boy who will learn your favorite flower, your favorite song, your favorite sweet. And even if he is too poor to give you any of them, it won’t matter because he will have taken the time to know you as no one else does. Only that boy earns your heart.”
Leigh Bardugo
“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
“You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.”
Suzanne Collins
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
J.D. Salinger
“Don’t.” Clary raised a warning hand. “I’m not really in the mood right now.”
“That’s got to be the first time a girl’s ever said that to me,” Jace mused.”
Cassandra Clare
“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
L. Frank Baum
“It’s just that…I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It’s the universe’s way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It’s how life is.”