Favorite Quotes

akr

"I am pieces of quotes from my favorite books, stitched together by song lyrics and I am glued together by midnight conversations and the sweet taste of coffee and I have this tendency to fall apart suddenly and I need you to somehow be okay with this because I am created by the souls who are brave enough to gather all my tattered pieces and put me back together and oh God how I would love to be whole again."

Anonymous

"A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not in the branch but in her own wings."

Ruth Bell Graham

"A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers."

Lang Leav

"A question; it was a question I had worn on my lips for days - like loose thread on my favorite sweater. I couldn't resist pulling - despite knowing it could all unravel around me. 'Do you love me?' I ask. In your hesitation, I found my answer."

Anonymous

"After a while I looked in the mirror and realized...wow. After all those hurts, scars, and bruises, after all those trials, I really made it through. I did it. I survived that which was supposed to kill me. So I straightened my crown... and walked away like a boss."

Judy Garland

"Always be a first rate version of yourself instead of a second rate version of somebody else."

Anonymous

"Be a voice, not an echo."

Abraham Lincoln

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt

Ann Voskamp

"Brokenness breaks us from our need to be right and breaks us open to our need to extend the grace we have been given."

John F. Kennedy

"Change is the law of life."

Ciona Rouse

"Do the crazy thing, the hard-to-imagine-but-somehow-you-did thing, the brings-you-to-your-knees thing, the no-one-would-ever-do-it-that-way thing, the safety-net-would-not-even-matter thing, the it-could-kill-you-but-not-trying-is-another-kind-of-death thing, the thing on your heart. Do it and let them gasp right before they call it a thing of wonder."

Anonymous

"Enjoy the little things in life for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things."

Albert Einstein

"Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

ap

"Everyone is broken; we spend our lives filling the cracks with whatever we can find."

Frank Kafka

"Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."

Judy Belmont

"Forgive yourself for not having the foresight to know what now seems so obvious in hindsight."

Anonymous

"I am not lost. To be lost, you have to know where it is you're supposed to be, and I don't even know that."

Maya Angelou

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely do we admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

Abraham Lincoln

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or we can rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

ek

"I love when you look at someone with a smile on your face, and they break into a smile back at you, not because they know why you're smiling, but because you're happy, and that's enough to make them happy."

Pablo Neruda

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."

Tyler Knott Gregson

"I overheard the man whisper, 'I am a lover, not a fighter,' and to myself I thought, I, am in fact, both. For is it love at all if it's not worth fighting for?"

Thomas Merton

"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business, and in fact, it's nobody's business. What we are asked to do is love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy of anything."

Anonymous

"A certain darkness is needed to see the stars."

Anonymous

"It is both a blessing and a curse, to feel everything so very deeply."

Ansel Adams

"You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved."

Tyler Knott Gregson

"You have never had to steal my breath or take it away; somehow, you have always managed to convince me to hand it over freely. "

Stephen Covey

"You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically - to say 'no' to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside."

Anonymous

"You know you are on the right track when you become uninteresting in looking back."

Stephen King

"You can, you should, and if you're brave enough to start, you will."

Vincent Van Gogh

"Normality is a paved road. It is comfortable to walk but no flowers grow on it."

Daniell Koepke

"Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are toxic to our being simply because their needs and way of existing in the world force us to compromise ourselves and our happiness. They aren't inherently bad people, but they aren't right people for us. And as hard as it is, we have to let them go. Life is hard enough without being around people who bring you down, and as much as you care, you can't destroy yourself for the sake of someone else. You have to make your wellbeing a priority. Whether that means breaking up with someone you care about, loving a family member from a distance, letting go of a friend, or removing yourself from a situation that feels painful - you have every right to leave and create a safer space for yourself. "

Max Lucado

"On the eve of the cross, Jesus made His decision. He would rather go to Hell for you than go to Heaven without you."

Richard G. Scott

"One of the great lessons that each of us needs to learn is to ask."

Charles Stanley

"Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we are waiting for."

Elizabeth Gilbert

"People think your soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, and break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so out of control that you have to transform your life..."

Maya Angelou

"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

Anonymous

"Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

Joanne Harris

"She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far and thoughts that wander off the edge of the world."

Terri St. Cloud

"She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful."

Anonymous

"She rolled over, buried half her face in her pillow, and smiled slightly. It was then, the overwhelming realization washed over me that there is so much more to life than simply surviving it."

Anonymous

"She took the leap and built her wings on the way down."

Anonymous

"She's got bite marks on her tongue from all the things she never said."

Anonymous

"Sometimes you don't realize you're actually drowning when you are trying to be everyone else's anchor."

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Anonymous

"The most memorable people in your life are the ones that love you when you aren't very loveable."

E.E. Cummings

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

Henry David Thoreau

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

Anonymous

"You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of embarrassing bravery and I promise you, something great will come of it."

Ruth Renkl

"You live longer once you realize that any time spent being unhappy is wasted."

Anonymous

"The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you'll see their flaws. That's just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don't last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they are out of money or under pressure or hungry, for goodness' sake. Love is something different. Love is choosing to serve someone and be with someone in spite of their filthy heart. Love is patient and kind. Love is deliberate. Love is hard. Love is pain and sacrifice; it's seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship."

James Patterson

"The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you are faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"There are all types of love in the world but never the same love twice."

Anonymous

"There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection."

Yasmin Mogahed

"Try not to confuse attachment with love. Attachment is about fear and dependency, and has more to do with love of self than love of another. Love without attachment is the purest love because it isn't about what others can give you because you're empty. It is about what you can give others because you're already full."

Anonymous

"Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out."

Ernest Hemingway

"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

Anonymous

"Two things define you, your patience when you have nothing & your attitude when you have everything."

Anonymous

"We all have chapters we would rather keep unpublished."

Anonymous

"We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are."

Madeleine L'Engle

"We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a light that is so lovely that they want with all of their hearts to know the source of it."

Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

Anonymous

"We must be our own before we can be another's."

F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Well, I can't describe her exactly - except to say that she was beautiful. She was - tremendously alive."

Anonymous

"What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it."

Anonymous

"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help."

Thich Naht Hanh

"When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help."

Patrick Stump

"When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you."

Dean Jackson

"When you identify with the part of you that is eternal, you see the true value of yourself and all others. You treat yourself and everyone else as priceless spirits. Comparisons and divisions fade away, replaced by the peace and knowledge of oneness."

Anonymous

"You and me and never us; a complicated series of almost interactions."

Anonymous

"I don't have an amazing figure or a flat stomach. I am far from being considered a model, but I am me. I eat food. I have curves. I have more fat than I should. I have scars because I have a history. Some people love me, some like me, some hate me. I have done good; I have done bad. I love my pj's and I go without makeup and sometimes don't get my hair done. I am random and crazy. I don't pretend to be someone I'm not. I am who I am, you can love me or not. And if I love you, I will do it with my whole heart."

Anonymous

"I go to seek a great perhaps."

Lang Leav

"I know you've lost someone and it hurts. You may have lost them suddenly, unexpectedly. Or perhaps you began losing pieces of them until one day, there was nothing left. You may have known them all your life or you may have barely known them at all. Either way, it is irrelevant - you cannot control the depth of a wound another soul inflicts upon you. Which is why I am not here to tell you tomorrow is another day. That the sun will go on shining. Or there are plenty of fish in the sea. What I will tell you is this; it is okay to be hurting as much as you are. What you are feeling is not only completely valid but necessary - because it makes you so much more human. And though I can't promise it will get better any time soon, I can tell you that it will - eventually. For now, all you can do is take your time. Take all the time you need."

Anonymous

"I love people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect because that's natural and that's real."

Anonymous

"I think everything in life is art. What you do, how you dress, the way you love someone and how you talk, your smile, your personality, what you believe in, and all your dreams, the way you drink your tea or coffee, how you decorate your home or party, your grocery list, the food you make, how your writing looks and the way you feel. Life is art."

Matthew Gray Gubler

"I think it is perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional."

Sye Wells

"I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life."

Anonymous

"I've learned... that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become."

Anonymous

"If I ever push you away, I don't really mean to; when I tell you I don't want to talk about it: I do, I am just looking for the right words, give me a minute and if I can tell you, I will; I try to be a struggling mix of real and perfect at the same time; at the moment, I am working on the ratio; when I get really quiet sometimes it is because I have too much to say, I have thought of too many things to tell you all at once and I don't know what to say first; I get immaturely jealous of anyone who gets to see you on a daily basis; I miss you really easily but I also like that we can be apart and we are both okay, space is good, too; I love the way we love some of the same things, and I love how we love entirely different things; my head is a complicated pile of thoughts and fears and cravings and dreams and this tangled nostalgia for the past and, somehow, the future; I am flawed and I am human and I am broken and I am trying and I am one person and I am two hands and I am one heart; and I love you and I am so glad you are here."

Fred Rogers

"If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."

Steven Pressfield

"If you find yourself asking yourself 'Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?' Chances are that you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death."

Winnie the Pooh

"If you live to be 100, I hope to live to be 100 minus 1 day so I never have to live without you."

Seth Godin

"Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from."

Rose Kennedy

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessons. But it is never gone."

L. R. Knost

"It is not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It is our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."

Mark Twain

"Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

Anonymous

"Life is short. If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do something that matters to you, that moment is now."

E.E. Cummings

"Listen; There is a hellof a good universe next door; let's go."

Anonymous

"Live in such a way that if anyone should speak badly about you, no one would believe it."

Anonymous

"Love isn't practical. It isn't meant to be easy. It doesn't appear on command. It doesn't let you fall for whomever you like. It surfaces neither at the most opportune moment nor in the most convenient. It'll pair you with someone you might never have expected. It'll put you face to face with endless obstacles. But in the end, none of that will matter because it's how you overcome its obstacles that will define your love. It may not be practical, but love is ultimately the best thing that will ever happen to you."

William Shakespeare

"Love me or hate me, both are in my favor... If you love me, I will always be in your heart. If you hate me, I will always be in your mind."

Anonymous

"More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them."

Alex Elle

"My spirit is scenic. I encourage you to take the long way when getting to know me."

Anonymous

"Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have."

Anne Frank

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

C

"You told me the name of your favorite song and I was surprised at first because it didn't sound like something you would like. The beat was too soft and the chorus too slow, but you told me to listen for the lyrics because they were like a map of your mind that you could never find the right words to navigate. So I listened again, this time drinking in every word, stringing together the phrases like holiday lights, learning the nooks and crannies that your soul knew how to hide so well. Behind the pretty lyrics were meanings not so pretty and behind the heartbreaking beat the drum was like a heartbeat that whispered how it kept you alive. They say you learn a lot about a person if you listen to their favorite song and it's true, but you also learn that you can never fully know them at all."

Anonymous

"You want to come in my life, the door is open. You want to get out of my life, the door is open. Just one request. Don't stand at the door, you're blocking the traffic."

Anonymous

"You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy."

Anonymous

"You write so beautifully; the inside of your mind must be a terrible place."