Jonathan > Jonathan's Quotes

“Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory???
Graystripe:...Drowning?
Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory?
Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?”
― Erin Hunter

“You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“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

“I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

“What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
― William Cullen Bryant

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections

“That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality–your soul, if you will–is as bright and shining as any that has ever been....Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret luminous place. Believe it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly.”
― George Saunders

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
― Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife