"I may be small, but I've got giant plans to shine as brightly as the sun. I will blaze until I find my time and place. I will be fearless, surrendering modesty and grace. I will not disappear without a trace. I'll shout and start a riot, be anything but quiet. Christopher Columbus! I'll be astonishing! Astonishing at last!!"
--Jo March from Little Women: The Musical
My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so."
--Robert G. Ingersoll
"Books everywhere! Each wall was armed with overcrowded yet immaculate shelving. It was barely possible to see the paintwork. There were all different styles and sizes of lettering on the spines of the black, the red, the gray, the every-colored books. It was one of the most beautiful things Liesel Meminger had ever seen." (Page 134)
--The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
"We are obedient, not because we are blind, but because we can see."
--Boyd K. Packer
"To every man there comes, in his lifetime, that special moment where he is figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered a chance to do a very special thing, unique to him and fitted to his talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds him unprepared or unqualified for that which would be his finest hour."
--Winston Churchill
"Why would anyone want to get over the one thing you hope for from the minute you're born and remember until the day you die?"
--Uncle Arvide Guys and Dolls
"I find the great things in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Why would you want to dance with somebody who doesn't want to dance with you?"
--Robbie Hart The Wedding Singer
"Life is a great big canvas, throw all the paint on that you can."
--Danny Kaye
"We study our history because it helps us change. Ultimately, the value of history is not so much in its date, times and places. It is valuable because it teaches us the principles and purposes and patterns we are to follow, it helps us know who we are and what we do."
--Julie B. Beck
"Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavements, even if it leads nowhere? Or would it be a waste even if I knew my? Should I leave it there?"
--Adele
"There are only two ways to live your life: one is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
--Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
--Albert Einstein
"I'm simply a 'book drunkard'. books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them."
--L.M. Montgomery
"I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional and intellectual feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture."
--Carrie Fisher from her journal written during the filming of Star Wars
"She asked me what made me do such a thing, That's an awkward questions because often I can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren."
--Emily from Emily of New Moon
Ted: "Why are you always right?"
Lily: "It's my best and more annoying quality."
"Let me guess: can't sleep for thinking of her; can't turn a corner without hoping she's there?"
--Robin of Locksley, Robin Hood
"If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48."
--Margaret Thatcher
"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide that your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on or blame. The gift of life is yours; it is an amazing journey; and you alone are responsible for the quality of it."
--Dan Zadra
"Masquerading as a normal person day after day is exhausting."
--Unknown
"In three words I can sum up everything I know about life: IT GOES ON."
"In three words I can sum up everything I know about life: IT GOES ON."
--Robert Frost
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
--Howard Thurman
"I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health."
--Voltaire
"I've decided to be happy because it's good for my health."
--Voltaire
"The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days waiting for better ones ahead."
--Marjorie Pay Hinckley
"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. "
--Albert Einstein
"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
--Edwin Land
"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
--Edwin Land
"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart? That's true strength."
--Unknown
"Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for their values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character."
--Ayn Rand
"I think it best not to hope to fervently for something that may never happen."
--Eleanor Dashwood
--Eleanor Dashwood
"I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little, if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."
--Coco Chanel
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
--Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
"It doesn't do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
--Albus Dumbledore
"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life."
--W. Somerset Maugham
"A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
--Roald Dahl Matilda
"The best moments in reading are when you come across something-a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things-that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours."
--The History Boys
"I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken, and the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldn't brighten her own."
--Unknown
"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library."
--Jorge Luis Borges
"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love."
--Carry Bradshaw
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
-Ayn Rand
"He can be ordinary in the best ways and still dance like a poet through everything he says."
--Sara Bareilles
"Gentlemen, nerd girls are the world's greatest under-utilized romantic resource. Do not tell me that nerd girls aren't hot because that shows a Paris Hilton-esque failure to understand hotness."
--John Green
"The reason that we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel."
--Steven Furtick
"Face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility."
--Pres. Thomas S. Monson
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
-e.e. Cummings
"If I'm honest, I have to tell you that I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all. "
--Audrey Hepburn
"Nothing GREAT was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I've seen fake gods and bad gods and demi-gods and would be gods; out of all that, out of the whole pantheon, if I believe in one thing...just one thing...I believer in her."
-Ten talking about Rose, Doctor Who
"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."
-Oscar Wilde
"I'm going to make everything around me beautiful-that will be my life."
-Elise de Wolfe
"I'm determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions and not upon our circumstances."
-Martha Washington
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
--Jane Austen
"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging and it's very difficult to find anyone."
--J.R.R. Tolkien
"You need to let the the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."
--Andy Warhol
"It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us."
--J.K. Rowling
"If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day."
--Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
--Winston Churchill
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
--Jane Austen
"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging and it's very difficult to find anyone."
--J.R.R. Tolkien
"You need to let the the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you."
--Andy Warhol
"It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us."
--J.K. Rowling
"If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day."
--Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
--Winston Churchill
