J > J's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
― Hermann Hesse

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
― Socrates

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”
― George Burns

“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love