Martha Lamberth > Martha's Quotes

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
― Gloria Steinem

“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin

“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“Don't think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

“But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“It’s hard being weird. No—it’s hard living in a culture that makes it hard.”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

“Knowing yourself is life's eternal homework”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

“We’re all a garbage dump of dysfunction, but if you get in there and churn the problems, they turn to mulch faster so new things can grow out of them.”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet

“We are born an empty bookshelf.
Life is what we fill it with.”
― Felicia Day, You're Never Weird on the Internet