Wendi > Wendi's Quotes

“People who still read books were a rare breed—and becoming more rare all the time. God Bless the readers of the world.”
― Richard Fenton, Onyx Webb: Book Ten: Episodes 29, 30, 31 & 32

“There is nothing in the world so patient as a plant awaiting spring.”
― T. Kingfisher, The Raven and the Reindeer

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
― Raymond Carver

“Ah, my dear—there’s no way of knowing what your heart can endure until you’re faced with the unendurable and find yourself surviving.”
― S.W. Hubbard, Treasure of Darkness

“The most beautiful of flowers grow out of the darkest of moments.”
― Steena Holmes, Stillwater Tides

“We can achieve a world where no animals have to die needlessly; today, I truly believe this, to the core of my being.”
― Jackson Galaxy, Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me about Life, Love, and Coming Clean

“We need a country literally full of cat guys and cat girls, bikers, politicians, clergy, and everyone in between, in order to keep millions from dying without homes.”
― Jackson Galaxy, Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean

“The dance of life should be created from moment to moment with individuality and spontaneity.”
― Lilian Jackson Braun, The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

“What strange creatures other human beings are, he thought. It’s amazing anyone ever connects.”
― Sharon Guskin, The Forgetting Time

“Remember the flight, for the bird is mortal.”
― Jasmin Darznik, Song of a Captive Bird

“A small number of people working on a problem can change the world.”
― Linda J. Barth, A History of Inventing In New Jersey

“If you want to travel to Paris, plan a trip, do some research, save some money, and then go. If you want to take a weekend to the beach, plan a trip, do some research, save some money, and then go. If you want to go ride roller coasters, plan a trip, do some research, save some money, and then go. Go do what you love. Don’t sit around and dream about it all day. Do the dreaming and then get busy. Life is not waiting on you to keep moving. It moves no matter what you do.”
― Bryce Yelverton, Coaster Crusade

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. — Michael Jackson”
― Karen Moriarty, Defending a King: His Life & Legacy

“If our landscaping choices can rebuild populations of a butterfly thought to be extinct without listing it under the Endangered Species Act and without investing one dime of limited conservation funds—that is, without even trying—imagine what we can do if we include conservation as one of the goals of our gardens.”
― Rick Darke, The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden

“The Russian perception of Michael Jackson as an iconic victim parallels that of American author Dr. Wayne Dyer, who said: Not only is that heartbreaking, but immoral in my opinion, that this innocent man was persecuted as he was by this world and particularly the United States—his home country. I am and always will be ashamed of what was done to Michael Jackson by this country.... Michael was essentially lynched in the U.S.... [H]e is not only the man in the mirror, but the mirror itself reflecting back to this country its own ugliness, greed, ignorance, and hate.”
― Karen Moriarty, Defending a King: His Life & Legacy

“All that is best in me I have given to (animals) and I mean to stand by them to the last and share their fate whatever it may be. If it is true that there is to be no haven of rest for them when their sufferings here are at an end, I, for one, am not going to bargain for any heaven for myself. I shall go without fear where they go, and by the side of my brothers and sisters from the forests and the fields, from skies to seas, lie down to merciful extinction in their mysterious underworld, safe from any further torments.” —Preface to The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe”
― Bernard Jan, Look for Me Under the Rainbow

“There is no greater joy than to share what you love with those who appreciate it.”
― Bernard Jan

“I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially. E. B. WHITE”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition

“The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven

“To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.”
― Stephen Covey

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
― Osho

“Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it. . . .”
― Rachel Carson, Silent Spring

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
― Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“The heart is a compass, steers us back to the thing we loved the most.”
― Holly Schindler, Playing Hurt

“There's a book of poetry
in the lines of my hands
that no one wants to read”
― Holly Schindler, A Blue So Dark