Paula > Paula's Quotes

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides

“Trust is the fruit of a relationship in which you know you are loved.”
― William P. Young

“Evil is a word we use to describe the absence of Good, just as we use the word darkness to describe the absence of Light or death to describe the absence of Life. Both evil and darkness can only be understood in relation to Light and Good; they do not have any actual existence. I am Light and I am Good. I am Love and there is no darkness in me. Light and Good actually exist. So, removing yourself from me will plunge you into darkness. Declaring independence will result in evil because apart from me, you can only draw upon yourself. That is death because you have separated yourself from me: Life.”
― William P. Young, The Shack

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“I don't give a chicken's sorry ass who taught you. I just want to play.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhiliration of good health. and if we never cried, we wouldnt be able to recognize joy. in a way, the good only gains value when it is contrasted with the bad”
― Priscilla Warner, The Faith Club: A Muslim, a Christian, a Jew: Three Women Search for Understanding

“On the face of things, we were hopelessly mismatched, but somehow we fit together perfectly.”
― Tiffany Baker, The Little Giant of Aberdeen County

“You are educated. Your
certification is in your
degree. You may think of
it as the ticket to the good
life. Let me ask you to think of an
alternative. Think of it as your
ticket to change the world.”
― Tom Brokaw

“It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.”
― Tom Brokaw

“Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.”
― Michael Jackson, Dancing the Dream: Poems and Reflections

“I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.”
― Michael Jackson, Moonwalk

“It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk

“There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I don't know who or where they are, but I know for certain that they are waiting.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk

“The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk

“Life has taught me that to fly, you must first accept the possibility of falling.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk

“I believe that in spite of the chains we bind ourselves with, there's a primordial section of the human psyche that is still nomadic and still yearns to roam free.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk

“The summer I turned sixteen I shot a man. It was 1969. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Hurricane Camille destroyed our farm. And I shot a man.”
― G. M. Frazier, A Death on the Wolf

“I am haunted by humans.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses