Lorna > Lorna's Quotes

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

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

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

“Nothing is easy to the unwilling.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.”
― Nikki Giovanni

“Choices

If i can't do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don't want
to do

It's not the same thing
but it's the best i can
do

If i can't have
what i want . . . then
my job is to want
what i've got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want

Since i can't go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn't lateral

When i can't express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal

I know
but that's why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry”
― Nikki Giovanni

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“The journey is the thing.”
― Homer

“.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself..”
― Steve Lopez, The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

“When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!”
― J.M. Barrie

“Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“A daydreamer is prepared for most things.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“It's nice having a bear about the house.”
― Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust
Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust”
― John Webster

“If I felt any better I'd be unconscious.”
― Lawrence Sanders

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Love overcomes bitterness,
overpowers sorrow,
overwhelms anger,
and overthrows hatred.

Medicine heals the body,
faith heals the heart,
wisdom heals the mind,
and love heals the soul.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Does it sound crazy to say I looked at her and saw the world falling into some kind of order that I didn’t even know it was out of?”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

“Finally sixteen and the moment like a hand holding me out to the world.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

“... ageing is nothing to be ashamed of

especially when the entire human race is in it together”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.”
― Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

“Parents are defined by their mistakes.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People