Nicole's quotes

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"There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

tags: love
130 people liked it

"Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

30 people liked it

"We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."
— Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife)

158 people liked it

"This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell, listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin, repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh, cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide, and seek.""
— Terry Tempest Williams (Leap)

tags: belief, faith, inspiration
20 people liked it

"... you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig."
— Ken Follett (World Without End)

tags: work
7 people liked it

"He knew that would not do, of course. Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing that you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically (417)"
— Ken Follett (The Pillars of the Earth)

tags: faith, god
5 people liked it

"You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love."
— Julia Child

tags: education, love
33 people liked it

"Life itself is the proper binge."
— Julia Child

tags: food, life
22 people liked it

"...nothing is too much trouble if it turns out the way it should."
— Julia Child (My Life in France)

6 people liked it

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

tags: integrity
3,721 people liked it

"It is our choices, Harry, that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

tags: choices
2,938 people liked it

"It takes much bravery to stand up to our enemies but we need as much bravery to stand up to our friends."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

tags: courage, friends
1,280 people liked it

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: truth
792 people liked it

"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default."
— J.K. Rowling

tags: failure, harvard-commencement-speech
719 people liked it

"It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride."
— Rebecca Wells (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)

tags: life
21 people liked it

"life is short but it is wide. this too shall pass."
— Rebecca Wells (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)

10 people liked it

"…the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes."
— Rebecca Wells (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)

tags: love, pain
6 people liked it

"But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least."
— Sarah Dunant

6 people liked it

"Missing rubs the soul raw."
— Sarah Dunant (Mapping the Edge)

7 people liked it

"HAPPINESS [is] ONLY REAL WHEN SHARED"
— Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

tags: family, happiness, inspirational, love, marriage
77 people liked it

"You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only...from human relationships. God has placed it all around us...and all you have to do is reach for it."
— Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

43 people liked it

"I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. "
— Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

tags: inspirational
9 people liked it

"The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences."
— Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild)

7 people liked it

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it."
— Mark Twain

tags: censorship, food
1,012 people liked it

"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind."
— Kurt Vonnegut

tags: fact-
212 people liked it

"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: babies, change, humor, love, parents
173 people liked it

"When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."
— J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)

166 people liked it

"A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on."
— Carl Sandburg

tags: children, hope, religion
115 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
15,745 people liked it

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

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,236 people liked it

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
— Mark Twain

tags: action, actions, disappointed, disappointment, discover, dream, dreams, explore, sail
7,541 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
5,997 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
6,064 people liked it

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, friends, friendship, life
3,852 people liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
1,917 people liked it

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
1,809 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,709 people liked it

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
— Mark Twain

tags: bible, books
485 people liked it

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
— Mark Twain

tags: bank, bankers, humor
239 people liked it

"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
— Mark Twain

tags: education
194 people liked it

"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
— Mark Twain

tags: happiness, sanity
189 people liked it

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: confident, direction, dream, dreams, imagine, life, live
2,332 people liked it

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: aim-high, good, life, live, moral, morality
163 people liked it

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
— Henry David Thoreau

146 people liked it

"There is no remedy for love, but to love more."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: love, remedy
95 people liked it

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
— Henry David Thoreau

82 people liked it

"This world is but a canvas for our imagination."
— Henry David Thoreau

33 people liked it

"Things do not change; we change."
— Henry David Thoreau

35 people liked it

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: disobedience, freedom, liberty, obedience, slave, slavery, slaves
34 people liked it