Bianca Harrison > Bianca's Quotes

“Feel the greatness

This is a great day to be alive. This is a great day to be who you are, where you are, and the way you are.

On this day, you can begin by assuming the best. Then you can follow through and do everything in your power to make it happen.

Today there will be all kinds of challenges and frustrations. And today, you can use each one of them as a way to grow stronger, more compassionate, more capable and more accomplished.

This is a day that’s too unique and precious to waste. This is a day that’s filled with new and exciting possibilities for making a difference.

Though there are certainly things to complain about, there is much more to be thankful for. Focus on the gratitude instead of the shortcomings, and you’ll invite today’s special flavor of abundance into your life.

This is a great day to be positive, purposeful and filled with enthusiasm for all you can do. Feel all the potential greatness in this day, and get busy bringing it to life in your own special way.

— Ralph Marston”
― Bianca Harrison, Someone to Call My Own

“Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.”
― E.Y. Harburg

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
― Jamaica Kincaid

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“In love, no question is ever preposterous.”
― Andre Brink, Before I Forget

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

“Next to music, beer was best.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.”
― Margaret Drabble

“I want to understand you,
I study your obscure language.”
― Alexander Pushkin

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Let the wild rumpus start!”
― Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ”
― George Carlin

“Lift every voice and sing.”
― James Weldon Johnson

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi

“God save us from people who mean well.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
― Thurgood Marshall

“Curiouser and curiouser!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”
― Anna Quindlen