Quotes - Leslynn (Cape Town, 8001, South Africa) Showing 1-30 of 213

#1

“Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
― Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

tags: destiny, dreams, epiphany, re-direction, re-thinking

1544 likes

#2

“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.”
― Czeslaw Milosz

2269 likes

#3

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”
― Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

1690 likes

#4

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”
― Alfred Hitchcock

tags: funny, humor, literature, puns

2177 likes

#5

“There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
― E. Nesbit, The Magic World

tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading

1553 likes

#6

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friendship, inspirational, pooh, winnie

9014 likes

#7

“I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don’t give up.”
― Diana Nyad

1145 likes

#8

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

46515 likes

#9

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

1860 likes

#10

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

2888 likes

#11

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

3091 likes

#12

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: censorship

2652 likes

#13

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7682 likes

#14

“One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.”
― Mary Renault, The Persian Boy

tags: alexander-the-great, mary-renault, the-persian-boy

2239 likes

#15

“It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.”
― David Allan

3 likes

#16

“People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.”
― James Hilton, Lost Horizon

tags: life, people, viewpoint

1811 likes

#17

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

tags: poetry

9288 likes

#18

“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

3222 likes

#20

“Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.”
― Aisha Tyler

1974 likes

#21

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21839 likes

#22

“The weariest nights, the longest days, sooner or later must perforce come to an end.”
― Baroness Emmuska Orczy

1256 likes

#23

“Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters

tags: folly, preference, wisdom

1633 likes

#24

“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

tags: fire, love, lust, matches

2037 likes

#25

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

2802 likes

#26

“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
― Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again

2934 likes

#27

“The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seemed filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster”
― Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927-1979

1284 likes

#28