Quotes - R.S. Novelle (rsnovelle) (Naples, FL) Showing 1-30 of 40

#1

“Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.”
― Jesse Stuart

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#2

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.”
― Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

tags: self-confidence, self-reliance, self-trust, trust

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#3

“Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours.”
― Ralph Waldo Emmerson

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#4

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

43912 likes

#5

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

41017 likes

#6

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor, writing

9633 likes

#7

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain

tags: illusions, life

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#8

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

tags: reading, writing

13092 likes

#9

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17573 likes

#10

“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

9101 likes

#11

“Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.”
― Stephen King

tags: books

6983 likes

#12

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

5919 likes

#13

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

8368 likes

#14

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5143 likes

#15

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

tags: writing

3934 likes

#16

“you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

3883 likes

#17

“Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.”
― Stephen King

tags: books, guns

2215 likes

#18

“May you one day find the place where your dreams and reality collide.”
― R.S. Novelle

tags: dreams, happiness, inspirational, life, live, motivational, reality

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#19

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

47044 likes

#20

“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

tags: books, power-of-words, reading

26911 likes

#21

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: satisfaction, self-determination

23998 likes

#22

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: compassion, life, suffering

20128 likes

#23

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

21147 likes

#24

“The marks humans leave are too often scars.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: humans, pain, scars

18070 likes

#25

“Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

14473 likes

#26

“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
― John Green

tags: breaking-up, lost-love

11491 likes

#27

“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: inspirational

10722 likes

#28

“Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.”
― John Green

tags: vlog

11064 likes

#29

“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

tags: paper-towns

11014 likes

#30

“The world is not a wish-granting factory.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars