Latest Quotes

“The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.”

— Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare

“The Founding Fathers had it right. There is an inherent danger coming from direct democracy when combined with an uninformed and manipulated public that has to decide the policy of a country, as we saw on June 23 when 36 percent of eligible voters in the UK chose to exit the European Union. Again, t…”

— Franz-Stefan Gady, Brexit: The American Founding Fathers Had it Right: Direct Democracy Is a Dead Duck

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”

— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”

— Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Modern Classics)

“Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.”

— Aberjhani, ELEMENTAL

“Does the sun ask itself, ‘Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?’ No, it burns and it shines. Does the sun ask itself, ‘What does the moon think of me? How does Mars feel about me today?’ No it burns, it shines. Does the sun ask itself, ‘Am I as big as other suns in other galaxies?’ No,…”

— Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood

“You must ask for God’s help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask for forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue its…”

— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“I like music because when I hear it, I … I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I’m not … for once, I’m not destroying, I’m creating.”

— Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Hope is no longer a whisper but a welcome friend who tells me that life is worth living. Because of hope, I know I am worth it. I know I have a reason to keep going. Hope is real. Let hope find you in your darkness.”

— Rebecca Burke, When Hope Starts to Speak

“Things usually work out in the end. What if they don’t? That just means you haven’t come to the end yet.”

— Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle: A Memoir

“If I don’t take care of myself, nobody will.”

— Marissa Meyer, Winter (Lunar )

“Bear Island knows no king but the King in the North, whose name is STARK.”

— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire)

“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.”

— Donald Trump, Donald Trump Likens His Schooling to Military Service in Book

“One of the oddest things about being grown-up is looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.”

— Patricia Briggs, Bone Crossed

“The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.”

— Enid Blyton, Enid Blyton Famous Five Series, 21 Books Box Collection Pack Set (Complete Gift Set Collection)

“It is not your responsibility to turn a coward into a champion.”

— Ari Eastman, Reminder: You’re Too Brilliant For His Bullshit

“Don’t you see? You were born a revolution. Not all men were made to join you in your brilliance. Not all men can handle fire. Some men will run, too afraid of the flames.”

— Ari Eastman, Reminder: You’re Too Brilliant For His Bullshit

“I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

“Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

“Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it? Then you know that winning is many things, but it is not the thing you thought it would be. Poor people who win the lottery do not become rich people. They become poor people who won the lottery.”

— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories