Jordin's quotes

(showing 1-50 of 192)

"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
16,489 people liked it

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

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
11,847 people liked it

"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

tags: death, heart, love
376 people liked it

"There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light."
— Jodi Picoult (Change of Heart)

187 people liked it

"Act
on your impulse,
swallow the bottle,
cut a little deeper,
put the gun to your chest."
— Ellen Hopkins

78 people liked it

"When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt."
— Ellen Hopkins (Glass)

100 people liked it

"Love means holding on to someone just as hard as you can because if you don't, one blink and they might disappear...forever."
— Ellen Hopkins (Impulse)

85 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
8,310 people liked it

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: freedom, humanity, mistakes
641 people liked it

"Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely."
— The Land Before Time

2 people liked it

""I was going to get an abortion the other day.
I totally wanted an abortion.
And it turns out I was just thirsty.""
— Sarah Silverman

5 people liked it

"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever.
"
— Winnie the Pooh

50 people liked it

"You dont love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

977 people liked it

"Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it."
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

299 people liked it

"See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it"
— Jodi Picoult (My Sister's Keeper)

tags: inspirational
95 people liked it

"When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there."
— Jodi Picoult (Second Glance)

81 people liked it

"Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up"
— Jodi Picoult

91 people liked it

"You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind."
— Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)

73 people liked it

"'I am Alice in Wonderland', Josie thought. 'Watch me fall.'"
— Jodi Picoult

39 people liked it

"Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home"
— Jodi Picoult (Mercy)

39 people liked it

"His hand is cool on my cheek as he paints a tear beneath my left eye, dark blue and swollen with sorrow."
— Jodi Picoult (Keeping Faith)

7 people liked it

"You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?"
— Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

17 people liked it

""taking no chances means wasting your dreams.""
— Ellen Hopkins (Crank)

66 people liked it

""Think of how they must have loved when all they had was each other.""
— Ellen Hopkins

31 people liked it

"Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end."
— Ellen Hopkins

43 people liked it

"They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

tags: awesomeness, funny
111 people liked it

"At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved."
— John Green (Looking for Alaska)

69 people liked it

"How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?"
— Jodi Picoult (Mercy)

tags: casket, death, funeral, heart, loss, love
56 people liked it

"'Your can believe something really hard,' Faith says, 'and still be wrong.'"
— Jodi Picoult (Keeping Faith)

30 people liked it

"If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason."
— Jodi Picoult (Mercy)

17 people liked it

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
— Marilyn Monroe

1,085 people liked it

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism
5,206 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,405 people liked it

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

tags: imagination, inspirational
5,821 people liked it

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
— William Shakespeare

862 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,942 people liked it

"You always get weirdos like Edward who seem to attract women for some reason. If Edward wasn’t a fictional character and you met him in reality he is like one of those guys who would probably be an axe murderer or something."
— Stephenie Meyer (The Twilight Saga)

tags: twilight
5,707 people liked it

"Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow."
— The Talmud

14 people liked it

"Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."
— Karl Menninger

tags: inspirational, love
17 people liked it

"It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one."
— Karl A. Menninger

tags: religion, understanding
4 people liked it

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hatred, wisdom
657 people liked it

"Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: love
46 people liked it

"The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast,
and you miss all you are traveling for."
— Louis L'Amour

23 people liked it

"A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think."
— Louis L'Amour (Education of a Wandering Man Col)

4 people liked it

"Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality."
— Louis L'Amour

3 people liked it

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
— Walt Disney Company (Mulan)

tags: inspiration, life
393 people liked it

"Beauty is a whore, I like money better."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

tags: absurd, beauty, life, money
46 people liked it

"Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them"
— Ginnetta Correli

tags: absurd, children, god, life
22 people liked it

"The eyes can mislead, the smile can lie, but the shoes always tell the truth."
— Dr. Gregory House

27 people liked it

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
— Josh Billings

tags: animals, dogs
94 people liked it

« previous 1 2 3 4 next »

Jordin's profile »

all quotes
add a quote

tags from Jordin's quotes

Animals
God
absurd
action
awesomeness
beauty
carpe-diem
change
children
death
education
frost
funeral
glitter
gold
heart
heaven
humanity
hurt
inspiration
inspirational
life
loss
lost
love
mistakes
money
optimism
perception
pessimism
roots
sing
strength
strong
wander
wish
wither
Dogs
absurd
casket
dance
freedom
funny
imagination
inspirational
learning
life
love
philosophy
poetry
religion understanding
twilight
wisdom hatred