Leslie > Leslie's Quotes

“They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.”
― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead

“She was always daydreaming. She never wanted to live in the real world; she always seemed to be separated from other children her age. They couldn’t understand her or her imagination. She was always thinking outside of the box, breaking rules, and only following what her heart told her was right.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, November Snow

“She never felt like she belonged anywhere,except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else.”
― Rainbow Rowell Eleanor and Park

“How do you smuggle daydreams into reality?”
― David Mitchell, Number9Dream

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
― Garrison Keillor

“Anger is extraordinarily easy. It’s our default setting. Love is very difficult. Love is a miracle.”
― Brant Hansen, Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

“Yes, the world is broken. But don’t be offended by it. Instead, thank God that He’s intervened in it, and He’s going to restore it to everything it was meant to be. His kingdom is breaking through, bit by bit. Recognize it, and wonder at it.”
― Brant Hansen, Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

“Oh yes, the heart is deceptive. And that calls for humility above all else, because my heart isn’t deceptive because it fools other people. It’s deceptive because it fools me.”
― Brant Hansen, Unoffendable: How Just One Change Can Make All of Life Better

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

“Jesus had no money,
but was the richest of all time;
had no education,
but was the smartest of all time;
had no titles,
but was the noblest of all time;
had no pedigree,
but was the finest of all time;
and had no power,
but was the greatest of all time.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.”
― Jeannette Walls

“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“You're not a woman," he said finally. "You're the Grim Reaper with red hair!”
― Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave

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

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you want to help a guilt-ridden person, don’t act holy and pure around them. Everyone has a dark side, Be true, Be vulnerable. Be normal. Be human.”
― Shunya

“I think we all have a dark side if we're truly honest with ourselves. If we don't acknowledge it then it's just a predator waiting to attack in the darkest moments.”
― Emilyann Allen (pseudonyms Emilyann Phoenix and Emilyann Girdner)

“You cannot banish the devilish, unflattering qualities of your personality. Nor would doing so be healthy or useful. Suppressing experiences is psychologically destructive because it divorces us from the full richness of real life. To progress on your journey of personal growth, love, and meaning and purpose in life, you need to become aware of all aspects of yourself, including your darker tendencies, and be agile enough to integrate them into your behavioural repertoire as needed. Do not repress, ignore, or hide the darker gifts. Be aware of them, appreciate them, and when you're ready harness them. When you do this, you'll find that you've gained greater access to well-being. To do otherwise is to be enslaved by fear, to set an artificial limit on what you experience and accomplish in this, the one and only life we know for sure that you'll have. Make the most of it. Become whole.”
― Todd Kashdan

“I have been skating on the dark side of the moon..
My blades are sharp. My shoelaces are tight.
It is deathly quiet on the dark side of the moon.”
― Vytautas Pliura, Tenderness in Hell: Collected Poems by Vytautas Pliura

“If you don't like my dark side, then don't take it out of it's cage and feed it.”
― Jury Nel

“People can use you only if you allow them to.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“Regret is for emotions, what cancer is for diseases. It hollows you from inside.”
― Prabhat Poddar, Not A Long Story

“Do not mistake my feelings for you; there are many, and not all are pleasant.”
― Merissa Elizabeth, Inextricably Linked: Stolen Moments in Time

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
― Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

“Winners never quit and quitters never win”
― Vince Lombardi

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room