Asher > Asher's Quotes

“Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It's only after you have lost everything that you are free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Losing all hope was freedom.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“There is only one sin. and that is theft... when you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“When a baby comes into the world, its hands are clenched, right? Like this?" He made a fist. "Why? Because a baby not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say the whole world is mine. But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned his lesson." "What lesson?" I asked. He stretched open his empty fingers. "We can take nothing with us.”
― mitch albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“You are not your past.”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“You cannot write if you do not read,” the blind man said. “You cannot eat if you do not chew. And you cannot play if you do not”—he grabbed for the boy’s hand—“listen.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Every loss leaves a hole in your heart.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“But you cannot change your past, no matter how you craft your future.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Don't be sorry. You're alive.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance—to confine its own. Could you imagine a bird imprisoning another bird? A horse jailing a horse?”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold . . .” The pillow seemed to sink a little, and Johnny died.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“It seemed funny to me that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“It's like lifting off in an airplane: you're on the ground, on the ground, on the ground... and then you're up, riding on a magical cushion of air and prince of all you survey. That makes me happy, because it's what I was made to do.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

“The future of aviation human factors lies primarily with the discipline of individual flyers, not high-powered training programs, 3D simulation, or advanced technology aircraft.”
― Anthony Kern, Flight Discipline

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson