Jill > Jill's Quotes

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.”
― Isabel Allende, City of the Beasts

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
― Robert Bloch

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“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

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“A lesson taught with humor is a lesson retained.”
― Ruth K. Westheimer

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

“Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

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

“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
― Herman Melville

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.”
― Astrid Lindgren

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”
― Sinclair Lewis

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.”
― Johnny Cash

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”
― Erica Jong

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.”
― J.K. Rowling

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
― Roald Dahl

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again