Wisdom Lines Hub

  Girls Quotes - Beauty is an illusion   “Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality   “I'll walk as fast as I want, and I will take breaks whenever I feel like it. There is no one to follow, no one to keep up with. There's just me and this one beautiful day, this one moment, right here, now.” ― Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of   “Girls and women, in their new, particular unfolding, will only in passing imitate men's behavior and misbehavior and follow in male professions. Once the uncertainty of such transitions is over it will emerge that women have only passed through the spectrum and the variety of those (often laughable) disguises in order to purify their truest natures from the distorting influences of the other sex. Women, in whom life...

  Inspirational Quotes - To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done   “Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess   “If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience   “To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart   “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” ― Louisa May Alcott   “What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow...

  Inspirational Quotes - Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.   “People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.” ― Malcolm X   “Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” ― J.M. Barrie   “Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.” ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth   Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself. “Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi   “Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.” ― Joss Whedon ...

  Inspirational Quotes - You will never be able to escape from your heart   “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.   Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions--predigested books and ideas...marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talent...

  Books Quotes - I hoard books. They are people who do not leave   “If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.” ― Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue   “So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!” ― Brian Jacques, Lord Brocktree   “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” ― Joseph Brodsky   “I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.” ― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader   “Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.” ― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun   “But maybe they understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little valu...

  Books Quotes - To build up a library is to create a life “I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in deep trauma, find we hesitate, we stammer; there are long pauses in our speech. The thing is stuck. We get our language back through the language of others. We can turn to the poem. We can open the book. Somebody has been there for us and deep-dived the words.” ― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?   “Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way that people were alive, or even dogs or cats. (...) Stories were different, though: they came alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by torch light beneath a blanket, they had no real existence in our world. (...) They lay dormant, hoping for the chance to emerge. Once someone started to read them...