Teresa > Teresa's Quotes

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Nothing thicker than a knife's blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure”
― Virginia Woolf

“You will always fine jealous people.They're the ones promoting you.”
― Tyler Perry

“What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that.”
― Tyler Perry, Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life