WINNIE > WINNIE 's Quotes

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.”
― George Carlin

“Always be fearless. Walk like lion, talk like pigeons, live like elephants and love like an infant child.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Maybe nobody got a happy ending in the end. Maybe all happiness could ever hope to be was a tiny interruption from sorrow.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“Choosing to love—despite all the ways that people let you down, and disappear, and break your heart. Knowing everything we know about how hard life is and choosing to love, anyway.. That’s not weakness, that’s courage.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“It’s not the easy moments that define who we are. It’s the hard ones.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“That’s the thing I always love best about the human race: How we pick ourselves back up over and over and just keep on going.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“Good things didn’t last, people hurt each other every day, and nobody got a happy ending. But that night with him made me see it all in a new way. All the hardships and insults and disappointments in life didn’t make this one blissful moment less important. They made it more. They made it matter. The very fact that it couldn’t last was the reason to hold on to it—however we could. Yes, the world is full of unspeakable cruelty. But the answer wasn’t to never feel hope, or bliss, or love—but to savor every fleeting, precious second of those feelings when they came. The answer wasn’t to never love anyone. It was to love like crazy whenever you could.”
― Katherine Center , Things You Save in a Fire

“I knew too much about life to pretend that it wasn’t half tragedy. We lose the people we love. We disappoint each other. We misunderstand. We get lost and lonely and angry. But right now, in this moment, we were okay.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“The answer wasn’t to never love anyone. It was to love like crazy whenever you could.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“They will ignore you. They will exclude you. They will resent you. Being nice won’t help. Working hard won’t matter. Just by your very presence there, you are attacking them, trying to steal something that’s rightfully theirs, trying to infiltrate and dismantle their brotherhood.”
― Katherine Center, Things You Save in a Fire

“Getting what you want doesn't make you happy... Having doesn't make you happy: appreciating does; Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition.”
― Katherine Center, Happiness for Beginners

“The most important thing to remember is that getting what you want doesn’t make you happy. Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition.”
― Katherine Center, Happiness for Beginners

“It’s sadness that gives happiness its meaning.”
― Katherine Center, Happiness for Beginners

“I had finally come to understand that not getting what you want is actually the trick to it all. Because not getting what you want forces you to appreciate what you already have.”
― Katherine Center, Happiness for Beginners

“When you don't know what to do for yourself, do something for somebody else.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“It's the trying that heals you. That's all you have to do. Just try.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“More than anything, I know that you just have to choose to make the best of things. You get one life, and it only goes forward. And there really are all kinds of happy endings.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“I would never tell you that the life you wanted couldn't have been exactly as great as you planned. But you have to live the life you have. You have to find inspiration in the struggle, and pull joy out of the hardship. [...] Because that's all we can do: Carry the sorrow when we have to, and absolutely savor the joy when we can.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“You can’t ask someone to love you or be there for you or do the right thing—and you certainly can’t guilt them into it. Either they will or they won’t.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“You get one life, and it only goes forward. And there really are all kinds of happy endings.”
― Katherine Center, How to Walk Away

“Because you said you loved him. Because you deserve your fairy-tale ending. And because I’d do anything for you, Gracie Cooper. Even if it means letting you go.”
― Lauren Layne, To Sir, with Love

“To the girls who dream of meeting a prince
but end up falling for the misunderstood villain.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“how can we appreciate the sun every morning if we don’t live through the dark?”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“All those moments throughout the days, weeks, months that don't get marked on calendars with hand-drawn stars or little stickers.
Those are the moments that make a life.
Not grand gestures, but mundane details that, over time, accumulate until you have a home, instead of a house.
The things that matter.
The things I can't stop longing for.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story