Life
Quotes
People
are Like Stained-Glass Windows
“Nothing
ever happens like you imagine it will”
―
John Green, Paper Towns
“You
spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape
one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going,
but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
―
John Green, Looking for Alaska
“You
must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else
the responsibility for your life.”
―
Mary Oliver, Wild Geese
“Our
life is what our thoughts make it.”
―
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“If
there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the
responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love:
those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't”
―
Cassandra Clare
“Count
your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone
else's. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings
instead of your own.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Believe
something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've
changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't
that the way it works?”
―
Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard
“Stop
giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your
life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is
bound to try.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“People
are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but
when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a
light from within.”
―
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Some
of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to
me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and
when you do, nothing will ever compare.”
―
Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
“We
have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen
to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now
is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you're worrying about
Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered,
you're giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic
media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is
shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what
is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your
orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told 'no', we're
unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.'
And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in that game. You want to
reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who
want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being
manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
―
Terence McKenna
“I
believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be
waiting for you there.”
―
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“But
when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and
defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in
that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere
else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.”
―
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“Sleep
my little baby-oh
Sleep
until you waken
When
you wake you'll see the world
If
I'm not mistaken...
Kiss
a lover
Dance
a measure,
Find
your name
And
buried treasure...
Face
your life
Its
pain,
Its
pleasure,
Leave
no path untaken.”
―
Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
“To
fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.”
―
Bertrand Russell
“Pull
up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
―
Ruth Reichl
“At
the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“One
Choice
One
Choice, decided your friends.
One
Choice, defines your beliefs.
One
Choice, determines your loyalties - Forever.
ONCE
CHOICE CAN TRANSFORM YOU”
―
Veronica Roth, Divergent
“People
have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with
them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to
forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to
our feet, too much for our wings to carry!”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“Life's
as kind as you let it be.”
―
Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music
