Latest Quotes

“A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

— Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace

“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual res…”

— Anthon St. Maarten, Divine Living

“I thought Elm was a pure, functional language, but this is one hell of a side effect.”

— Mike Anderson, Putting Down Elm

“The person who is best suited to us is not the person who shares our every taste (he or she doesn’t exist), but the person who can negotiate differences in taste intelligently — the person who is good at disagreement. Rather than some notional idea of perfect complementarity, it is the capacity to t…”

— Alain de Botton, Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

“Choosing whom to commit ourselves to is merely a case of identifying which particular variety of suffering we would most like to sacrifice ourselves for.”

— Alain de Botton, Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

“You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.”

— Shannon Alder, 300 Questions To Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second…”

— Deepak Chopra, Synchrodestiny

“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”

— C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.”

— Chelsea Handler, Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

“Their efficient operation, based on previous experience at similar but smaller facilities, can accomplish this astonishing output 'while using 95% less water than field farmed-food and with yields 75 times higher per square foot annually.'”

— Urbanist, World’s Biggest Indoor Vertical Farm Near NYC to Use 95% Less Water

“I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.”

— Chelsea Handler, Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”

— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”

— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”

— Nicholas Sparks, A Walk To Remember

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”

— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.”

— Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

— Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, Roughing It

“Yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There's no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I've ended the world before. No one survived.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You