Mark > Mark's Quotes

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The moment that you feel, just possibly, you are walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind, and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself...That is the moment, you might be starting to get it right.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor”
― Alexis Carrel

“I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“That which you believe becomes your world.”
― Richard Matheson -

“Sometimes it takes a blind person to see something.”
― Cathy Birchall, Touching the World: A Blind Woman, Two Wheels and 25,000 Miles

“Niet in de glorie ligt de hoop van de mensheid, maar in het doorzettingsvermogen als alles tegenzit.”
― Dick van den Heuvel, Nova Zembla: liefde bevriest nooit

“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, remembered gate
When the last of earth left to discover
Is that which was the beginning;
At the source of the longest river
The voice of the hidden waterfall
And the children in the apple-tree
Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea.

—T.S. Eliot, from “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (Gardners Books; Main edition, April 30, 2001) Originally published 1943.”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets