Latest Quotes

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who'll decide where to go.”

— Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go!

“Let me tell you about this business,” Adam Vega, a thickly muscled, heavily tattooed Mister Softee man who works the upper reaches of the Upper East Side and East Harlem, said on Wednesday. “Every truck has a bat inside.”

— Andy Newman and Emily S. Rueb, Adam Vega, A Renegade Muscles In on Mister Softee’s Turf

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”

— Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt,, This is My Story

“Shouldn't we hold out for the person who doesn't just tolerate our little quirks but actually kinda likes them?”

— Matt Kuhn, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, Double Date

“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence.”

— David Nicholls, One Day

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.”

— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“If you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”

— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

— Scott Westerfeld, Uglies

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

— John Green, Paper Towns

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”

— Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“A group therapist created a terrific visual example of what a healthy relationship looks like. She put three pillows on the floor and asked a couple of us to stand on the pillows. She told us to leave the middle pillow open. She pointed at my pillow and said, "Don, that's your pillow, that's your li…”

— Donald Miller, Scary Close

“It’s true our lives can pass small and unnoticed by the masses, and we are no less dignified for having lived quietly. In fact, I’ve come to believe there’s something noble about doing little with your life save offering love to a person who is offering it back.”

— Donald Miller, Scary Close

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

— Michael J. Fox, Words of Wisdom (Volume 54)

“My friend looked at me confused. He laughed a little, then sighed, then teared up. “It’s true you’re bad at relationships,” I said, “but it’s also true you are good at them. They’re both true, old friend.” I reminded him of all the people who love him and all the people he’s loved. I told him I thou…”

— Donald Miller, Scary Close

“His prescription to experience a deep sense of meaning, then, was remarkably pragmatic. He had three recommendations: 1. Have a project to work on, some reason to get out of bed in the morning and preferably something that serves other people. 2. Have a redemptive perspective on life’s challenges. T…”

— Donald Miller, Scary Close

“I no longer believe love works like a fairy tale but like farming. Most of it is just getting up early and tilling the soil and then praying for rain. But if we do the work, we just might wake up one day to find an endless field of crops rolling into the horizon. In my opinion, that’s even better th…”

— Donald Miller, Scary Close

“It costs personal fear to be authentic but the reward is integrity, and by that I mean a soul fully integrated, no difference between his act and his actual person. Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don’t have integrity, life becomes…”

— Donald Miller, Scary Close

“Here are two things I found taking the long road, though: Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste.”

— Donald Miller, Scary Close