Quotes - Ashley Freeman (Phoenix, AZ) Showing 1-30 of 52

#1

“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

tags: attraction, beauty, popularity

7926 likes

#2

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

2774 likes

#3

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

1218 likes

#4

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

tags: books

1736 likes

#5

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

tags: logic, love

9158 likes

#6

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

4612 likes

#7

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

tags: diamond, soul

1816 likes

#8

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

13333 likes

#9

“Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.”
― Patricia Cornwell

tags: inspirational

2244 likes

#10

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall

2831 likes

#11

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

tags: friends, friendship

4310 likes

#12

“When will you learn that there isn't a word for everything?”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

tags: power-of-words

2683 likes

#13

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”
― Margaret Mead

1308 likes

#14

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

3676 likes

#15

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin

1605 likes

#16

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

tags: pain

961 likes

#17

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

3575 likes

#18

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

4873 likes

#19

“Read, read, read. That's all I can say.”
― Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock

tags: nancy-drew

2042 likes

#20

“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

2207 likes

#21

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: adventure, laughter

2688 likes

#22

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

tags: reading

3101 likes

#23

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

tags: water

3420 likes

#24

“We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”
― Kate Mosse, The Winter Ghosts

tags: love

2090 likes

#25

“We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?”
― Shirley Graham Du Bois

tags: artists

595 likes

#26

“A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.”
― Astrid Lindgren

tags: books, children, children-s-literature

3111 likes

#27