M.K. Aneal > M.K.'s Quotes

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.”
― Wendy Mass, Every Soul a Star

“You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.”
― Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love

“If you rely on finding time to do something, it will never be done. If you want to find time, you must make time.”
― Josh Kaufman, The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything ... Fast

“Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“The line between creative and crazy is mighty thin.”
― T.C. Slonaker

“If you are too occupied listening to the voice within you screaming how inadequate or unlovable you are, you won't be able to hear God whispering how much He loves you.”
― T.C. Slonaker

“An author is just someone who remembers their dreams a little better than some others.”
― T.C. Slonaker

“If I had a disability, I wouldn't cringe at the sight of those who used what I didn't have, but rather at those who had it and didn't use it.”
― T.C. Slonaker

“Life is beautifully tragic. Giving it up isn't the hard part; it's the living part that everyone struggles with.”
― Allison Blanchard, Forget Me Not

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”
― Wole Soyinka

“Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their head, The wind is passing by.”
― Christina Georgina Rossetti

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
― Chinua Achebe

“Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
― Will Smith

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Once outside, the detectives advanced up an escalator and to a floor with two elevators. One was labeled for the staff, and the other for guests. In the corner was a plain grey door which led up a staircase.

“Monsieur Leor…” Jean began. “Are you up for a challenge?”

“You want to run up the staircase.” Leor concluded, plainly. “Like schoolboys?”

“Ouais, monsieur,” Jean replied, with a silly grin. “You can consider it your preliminary training, if that helps your dignity.”
― Zechariah Barrett, Beyond Chivalry

“Always remember the words of Descartes: The reading of all good books is like conversion with the finest men of the past centuries.”
― Rachel Caine, Ink and Bone

“Anyone can betray anyone.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen