Elene Sallinger > Elene's Quotes

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectation.”
― Michael J. Fox, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned

“I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle,”
― Jane Green, Jemima J

“Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.”
― Daniel Keyes

“I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions.”
― Jean Kwok, Girl in Translation

“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”
― Luis Carlos Montalván, Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him

“Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it. —KATHERINE ANNE PORTER”
― Luis Carlos Montalván, Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him

“Controlling others—winning—is more compelling than anything (or anyone) else.”
― Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

“Ah, that is the miracle of the written word. It beckons our unconscious out of hiding. It tells us things we need to know, sometimes things we don’t want to know.”
― Amy Gail Hansen, The Butterfly Sister

“If you are afraid of death, you are afraid of life, for living your life leads to death. Until you face death and see its beauty, you will be afraid to really live—you will never properly burn the candle for fear of its end.”
― Henry Alford, How to Live: A Search for Wisdom from Old People

“Sometimes you need darkness to see things better:”
― Donato Carrisi, The Lost Girls of Rome

“Orgasms, for her, had been what she faked with a man and provided herself when she was alone,”
― Linda Howard, Death Angel

“I was the alpha and the omega of my parents’ suffering.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. Nothing gold can stay.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“You simply cannot pay the debts that come along with believing you are unworthy.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“Unworthiness always puts you in debt to anyone and everyone who shows you the slightest degree of attention or love or energy. Eventually, in this form of bankrupt relationship, your benefactors will demand or expect more than you are able or willing to give. This is the precise moment they will choose to call in the loan.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“Even though there is a part of me holding on to the belief that I am now, have always been, and will always be unworthy, I am still willing to love and accept myself.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable. — Maya Angelou”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.”
― Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

“What is a personal calling? It is God’s blessing, it is the path that God chose for you here on Earth.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Few people realize how much courage it takes in a community like ours to ignore the established taboos.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“They say you only have so many breaths in your lifetime, and I think disappointments might be the same.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, The Last Original Wife

“I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“square-cut diamond”
― Catherine McKenzie, Arranged

“Mahatma Gandhi said, “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“At night our fear is strong . . . but in the morning, in the light, we find our courage again.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban