Joy's quotes

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"Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none"
— Lois Lowry (Gathering Blue)

146 people liked it

"The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things."
— Lois Lowry

tags: acceptance, award, from, her, newberry, speech
71 people liked it

"’... Why can’t everyone see them? Why did colors disappear?’
The Giver shrugged. ‘Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness... We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.’"
— Lois Lowry (The Giver)

20 people liked it

"There's no place like home."
— L. Frank Baum (Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz)

9 people liked it

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe
423 people liked it

"Life, with it's rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit"
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

75 people liked it

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
— Lemony Snicket (The Grim Grotto)

tags: life
944 people liked it

"Luke, I am your father"
— Darth Vader

tags: darth, jedi, sith, star, vader, wars
65 people liked it

"Like and equal are not the same thing at all. -- Meg Murray"
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

40 people liked it

"I do not know everything; still many things I understand."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

tags: wisdom
39 people liked it

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."
— Madeleine L'Engle (Many Waters)

tags: belief
67 people liked it

"Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

tags: intuition
28 people liked it

"The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

29 people liked it

"A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

tags: science
23 people liked it

"We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

tags: integrity
30 people liked it

"You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

tags: life, poetry
7 people liked it

"Experiment is the mother of knowledge."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Wrinkle in Time)

7 people liked it

"I have a dream that one day my four little children will live in a nation where they are not judged my the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

2 people liked it

"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Ring of Endless Light)

tags: moral
18 people liked it

"And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Ring of Endless Light)

8 people liked it

"The earth will never be the same again
Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif
As distant stars participate in the pain.
A candle snuffed, a falling star or leaf,
A dolphin death, O this particular loss
A Heaven-mourned; for if no angel cried
If this small one was tossed away as dross,
The very galaxies would have lied.
How shall we sing our love's song now
In this strange land where all are born to die?
Each tree and leaf and star show how
The universe is part of this one cry,
Every life is noted and is cherished,
and nothing loved is ever lost or perished."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Ring of Endless Light)

tags: inspirational
8 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,890 people liked it

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing
3,120 people liked it

"In my dreams, I never have an age."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: age, dreams
66 people liked it

"There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Ring of Endless Light)

tags: inspirational
6 people liked it

"I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright,
And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years,
Driven by the spheres,
Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world
And all her train were hurled."
— Madeleine L'Engle (A Ring of Endless Light)

tags: inspirational
8 people liked it

"It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything."
— Lois Lowry

tags: inspirational
38 people liked it

"I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: god
80 people liked it

"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared."
— Lois Lowry (The Giver)

tags: loneliness, memories, pain, share
4 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,854 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,562 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,255 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
12,485 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,495 people liked it

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
8,341 people liked it

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
9,218 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,801 people liked it

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
9,890 people liked it

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
10,834 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,614 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,368 people liked it

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

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"Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
— Voltaire

tags: dance, dancing, reading
572 people liked it

"It is dangerous to be right when established authorities are wrong."
— Voltaire

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"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,720 people liked it

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
7,881 people liked it

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
— William Shakespeare (As You Like It)

tags: wisdom
6,592 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,292 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,412 people liked it