Quotes - Margarida Nabais (margaridang) Showing 1-30 of 378

#1

“Lose your dream, you lose your mind.”
― The Rolling Stones

tags: music, rolling-stones, ruby-tuesday, song-lyrics, songs

178 likes

#2

“Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts”
― Jose Saramago

1988 likes

#3

“One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.”
― Michael Cunningham

tags: life, on-fiction, writing

1196 likes

#4

“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
― Hermann Hesse

tags: writing

1775 likes

#6

“Write what should not be forgotten.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: forgotten, on-writing, writing, writing-advice

1581 likes

#7

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

88105 likes

#11

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

76547 likes

#13

“Love is a rebellious bird,
that nobody can tame,
and you call him quite in vain,
if it suits him not to come.”
― Ludovic Halévy

tags: love, opera

1301 likes

#17

“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”
― Margaret Wise Brown, Goodnight Moon

2089 likes

#20

“it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning

tags: friends, loss

393 likes

#23

“Make me immortal with a kiss.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

tags: kiss

1685 likes

#25

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”
― Eugene O'Neill

tags: optimism

1540 likes

#26

“I am not interested in money, I just want to be wonderful.”
― Marilyn Monroe

1730 likes

#34

“Cherish your wilderness.”
― Maxine Kumin

1591 likes

#35

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational

49963 likes

#36

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
― Maurice Sendak

3697 likes

#37

“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
― Lucille Clifton

1324 likes

#38

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

3348 likes

#39

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe

62140 likes

#40

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

6891 likes

#41

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
― Anne Frank

tags: writing

3929 likes

#42

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

tags: steppenwolf

4620 likes

#43

“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

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

165274 likes

#44

“Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.”
― O. Henry

1698 likes

#45

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

5444 likes

#46

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

2537 likes

#47