Haley > Haley's Quotes

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.”
― Henry Rollins

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
― Henry Rollins

“If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you”
― Henry Rollins

“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.”
― Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“This is for girls who have the tendency to stay up at night listening to music that reminds them of their current situation. Who hide their fears, hurt, pain and tears under the smiles, laughs and giggles on a daily basis. The girls who wear their heart on their sleeve. The girls who pray that things will work out just once and they'll be satisfied. The girls who sceam and cry to their pillows because everyone else fails to listen. The girls who have so many secrets but wont tell a soul. The girls who have mistakes and regrets as a daily moral. The girls that never win. The girls that stay up all night thinking about that one boy and hoping that he'll notice her one day. The girls who take life as it comes, to the girls who are hoping that it'll get better somewhere down the road. For the girls who love with all their heart although it always gets broken. To girls who think it's over. To real girls, to all girls: You're beautiful.”
― Zayn Malik

“Some people have lives; some people have music.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

“Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.”
― Ian Fleming

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money - I think that can be a burden - I’m greedy for an exciting life.”
― David Hockney

“The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.”
― Alice Munro, Runaway: Stories

“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

“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you”
― E.E. Cummings

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

“...you can hate a place with all your heart and soul and still be homesick for it.”
― Joseph Mitchell

“I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life”
― Diane di Prima

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”
― Tom Perrotta, Joe College

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski