Quotes

Quotes


So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.
- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
- Oscar Wilde
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
- Zelda Fitzgerald
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- Virginia Woolf
Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
- Charles Bukowski, Barfly
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
- Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
- Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.
- John Lennon
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
- Gustave Flaubert
Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.
- Veronica Roth, Divergent
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.
- John Green