Jennifer's quotes

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"I've learned a lot this year.. I learned that things don't always turn our the way you planned, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you."
— Jennifer Weiner (Good in Bed)

38 people liked it

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
— Maya Angelou

tags: people
855 people liked it

"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."
— Maya Angelou

102 people liked it

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational
530 people liked it

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when their right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust noone but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: monroe
1,959 people liked it

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

tags: activism, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
2,105 people liked it

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

tags: profound
357 people liked it

"Death doesn't just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala)

40 people liked it

"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do somehing else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted."
— Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson)

35 people liked it

"This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Meniti Bianglala)

36 people liked it

"Fairness, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
~ The blue man"
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

19 people liked it

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34"
— Various (Holy Bible: NIV Student Bible)

tags: spiritual, truth
147 people liked it

"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

tags: inspirational
2,920 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,212 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,888 people liked it

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

tags: inspirational
1,027 people liked it

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

676 people liked it

"I'm an idealist without illusions."
— John F. Kennedy

8 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,635 people liked it

"'Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.'"
— A.A. Milne

228 people liked it

"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything."
— Malcolm X

tags: belief, integrity
6,527 people liked it

"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."
— Barack Obama

tags: hope, service, work
142 people liked it

"A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things."
— Barack Obama

tags: activism, commitment, politics
154 people liked it

"Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things.

In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible. "
— Caroline Kennedy

tags: barack, endorsement, inspiration, kennedy, obama, politics, voting
68 people liked it

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,047 people liked it

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
— Gilda Radner

tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
1,024 people liked it

"Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy
369 people liked it

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion
1,110 people liked it

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, god, inspirational, religion
1,864 people liked it

"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)"
— Various (Holy Bible: King James Version)

tags: faith, god, hope, love
335 people liked it

"Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

Proverbs 4:23"
— Various (Holy Bible)

tags: bible, god, inspirational, religion
210 people liked it

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration
204 people liked it

"You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold. "
— Max Lucado (Cure for the Common Life)

tags: inspiration, self-image
82 people liked it

"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, truth
417 people liked it

"What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it. "
— Max Lucado (The Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado)

25 people liked it

"The mind is its own place, and in itself
can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
— John Milton (Paradise Lost)

tags: inspirational, religion
441 people liked it

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

tags: inspirational
2,455 people liked it

"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
2,431 people liked it

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

tags: humor, life
8,795 people liked it

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: life
1,889 people liked it

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there."
— Lewis Carroll

tags: life
1,252 people liked it

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
— Jimi Hendrix

tags: death, life
1,075 people liked it

""he smiled understandingly. it was one of those rare smiles w/ a quality of eternal reassurance in it that faced or seemed to face the whole external world for a second, and then focused in on you w/ an irresistable prejudice in your favor. it understood you as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisly the impression of you that at your best you hoped to convey. in an instant it was gone.""
— F.Scott Fitzgerald - the great gatsby

tags: from, is, memory-, not, perfect-, probally, this
6 people liked it

"True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.""
— Oprah Winfrey

27 people liked it

"Step Away from the Mean Girls…
…and say bye-bye to feeling bad about your looks.
Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.

This is a call to arms. A call to be gentle, to be forgiving, to be generous with yourself. The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the story line that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step toward transforming your experience of the world."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: body, image
18 people liked it

"The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened."
— Oprah Winfrey

14 people liked it

""By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.""
— Jon Stewart

tags: humor
29 people liked it