Quotes - Fernanda (Montijo, Setubal, Portugal) Showing 1-30 of 66

#1

“The windows of my soul I throw
Wide open to the sun.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier, John Greenleaf Whittier's Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection

tags: inspirational, my-psalm

1280 likes

#2

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

tags: madness, sanity

1716 likes

#3

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: encouragement, gandalf

11366 likes

#4

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: books

3248 likes

#5

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

47057 likes

#6

“Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.”
― Romain Rolland, Jean-Christophe, Vol. 1

1536 likes

#7

“What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: cartoonist, humor, inspirational

3308 likes

#8

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

tags: conversation

1517 likes

#9

“The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”
― Donald Barthelme, Come Back, Dr. Caligari

tags: literature

1035 likes

#10

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

3550 likes

#11

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

6693 likes

#12

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: romance, storytelling

3832 likes

#13

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

tags: katharine-hepburn

4409 likes

#14

“You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain-"
Sun."
After the darkness-"
Light."
And after the illness-"
Health."
Exactly," said the Tsar. "We mustn't give up faith.”
― Robert Alexander, The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

13 likes

#15

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Selected Poems

1444 likes

#16

“Only the forgotten are truly dead.”
― Tess Gerritsen, The Sinner

tags: dead, forgotten, tess-gerritsen, the-sinner

252 likes

#17

“What happens when people open their hearts?"
"They get better.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

tags: healing, vulnerability

6690 likes

#18

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

4100 likes

#19

“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

2966 likes

#20