Quotes - Lynn Cousino (Henderson, NV) Showing 1-30 of 43

#1

“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome.”
― Derek Walcott, Sea Grapes

1382 likes

#2

“Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.”
― Edith Wharton, Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

tags: carpe-diem, day, daytime, window

1992 likes

#3

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: freedom, women, writing

12761 likes

#4

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

1726 likes

#5

“Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

tags: humor

5168 likes

#6

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

2925 likes

#7

“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

#8

“If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”
― Abigail Adams, The Letters of John and Abigail Adams

tags: feminism

1512 likes

#9

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.”
― Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

tags: education, soul

1019 likes

#10

“A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.”
― Walter Mosley, The Long Fall

tags: reading

2005 likes

#11

“I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.”
― Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope

tags: silence, voice

2533 likes

#12

“The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

tags: happy, honesty, life

2120 likes

#13

“Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Long Winter

1294 likes

#14

“Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.”
― Alice Walker, Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems

1380 likes

#15

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon.”
― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

tags: dance, happiness, nursery-rhymes

2198 likes

#16

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
― Nelson Mandela

4290 likes

#17

“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”
― Judy Blume

tags: inspirational, life

2127 likes

#18

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

tags: cartoonist, humor, inspirational

3309 likes

#19

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”
― Lillian Hellman

tags: integrity

1890 likes

#20

“Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.”
― Richard Ford

741 likes

#21

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

tags: happiness, life, sea

2163 likes

#22

“Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength.”
― Betty Friedan

1739 likes

#23

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

3461 likes

#24

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

5115 likes

#25

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

6888 likes

#26

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12186 likes

#27

“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: humor-wicked-reading

9728 likes

#28

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

2274 likes

#29

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17098 likes

#30

“You don't have anything
if you don't have the stories.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony

1575 likes

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