Heather > Heather's Quotes

“Sometimes you've got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”
― Christopher Barzak, One for Sorrow

“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
― Paulo Coelho

“It's what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us.”
― Beth Hoffman

“Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life Book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn... When a chapter of your Life Book is complete, your spirit knows it's time to turn the page so a new chapter can begin. Even when you're scared or think you're not ready, your spirit knows you are.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“It's how we survive the hurt in life that brings us strength and gives us beauty.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“Well, what I don't understand is why people get all dressed up and drive to church so they can sit there and get scolded. Seems to me it'd be a whole lot easier for the to just stay home in their pj's, eat pancakes, and get yelled at over the radion.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“[She] was a remarkable looking woman. Remarkable in that she wasn’t what most people would call beautiful. But she oozed a raw femaleness that I was certain made most women uncomfortable and sent men walking into walls. And when she smiled. Well. That was magic.”
― Beth Hoffman, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

“The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her.”
― Bob Marley

“How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”
― June Ahern