In our world,” said Eustace, “a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.”
Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
It’s okay,” he said. “We’re together.” He didn’t say you’re okay, or we’re alive. After all they’d been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
Honesty will guide you to goodness, and goodness will invite you to heaven.
We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.
Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
I am an optimist… I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.
I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.
A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.
I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight,
but they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.
Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Because saving the people you love isn’t stupid. It isn’t even a choice
Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.
[An excerpt from “My friend, Abigail”]
Stories are like genies…They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.
Our stories can set us free…When we set them free.
No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can’t you must take them as they are.
Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead
A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
The future doesn’t belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.
At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don’t know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.
Like a child who saves their favourite food on the plate for last, I try to save all thoughts of you for the end of the day so I can dream with the taste of you on my tongue.
Where there are bees there are flowers, and wherever there are flowers there is new life and hope.
Your beliefs affect your choices. Your choices shape your actions. Your actions determine your results. The future you create depends upon the choices you make and the actions you take today.
Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.