Sofia > Sofia's Quotes

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Only boys and fools think men are first in courage. We do not bear children.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“You cannot take vengeance on a whole people because of the doings of a few wicked men.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“I carve things of wood because things made by effort are more real than things made by wishing.”
― Katherine Arden, The Girl in the Tower

“Is it right,” Jutta says, “to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“The more one knows, the sooner one grows old,” snapped the domovaya”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

“If you spend all your days bearing the burden of unforgotten wrongs you will only wound yourself.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

“Hmm... Well I guess everybody tells me i am too small and too slow to make a diference in this world but i am makimg a diference in my own world and i hope that is enough”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“i was so woried about wat i woud become in the future that i didnt realize i can be anything i want to be right now”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“uve spent ur whole life by urself, with urself, and so u have learned how to know urself and how to love ur life and u are truly happy with both those things. but I think that even in ur happy solitary life, u fear, more than anything else, that nobody will ever get to know the powerful love that you have grown within urself. its like having a secret that u cant share with anybody because nobody is willing to listen. and so while u are not lonely, u still sometimes like to imagine a life with sombody else, yet for the life of u, u cant imagine who that sombody could be. and so u project that fear and anger into others — those who have that one thing that u do not. ur so full of love, but all ur love comes out of u in destructive ways.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“a friend is anyone or anything who shares a life with u that you would never be able to experience without them.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“Introverts enjoy people-watching. Extroverts enjoy people watching.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“who am i? i don't really know. everybody calls me wise, and i have tried to learn very much about the world, but i don't feel very wise. and i know that owls are supposed to be wise. so then i don't feel owly enough to be an owl.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“What better way to spend time with yourself than by learning how much you are able to do.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“If you're always happy, are you ever truly happy, or is happiness only something we see in you because we know sadness.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“the harder it is to say goobye to sombody, the luckier u are to have met sombody ur going to miss”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“the truth is we all achieve greatness. the only difference is the size of our audiences”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“sometimes leaving feels a lot like being left behind.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“if u replace 'i have to...' with 'i get to...' then humabn life becomes AMAZING.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“if a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, perhaps the tree wanted to fall simply to fall, and not to show itself falling.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“if u are true to others u will always become a home.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“One of the most frustrating things about being creative is that the more you care about something, the harder it is to do.”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“Creativity needs constraint. When the constraints get tighter, you will find more opportunities to be creative!”
― Jomny Sun, Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Sometimes failure is the beginning of success”
― Astrid Scholte, Four Dead Queens