Quotes - Tim (Danville, KY) Showing 1-30 of 47

#1

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

6463 likes

#2

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
― Jonathan Swift

tags: imagination

1923 likes

#3

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: writing-advice

4143 likes

#4

“There is no place like home.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

3089 likes

#5

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
― OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

2386 likes

#6

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

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#7

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

5872 likes

#8

“You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: wish

4553 likes

#9

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

2706 likes

#10

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

2124 likes

#11

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace

78308 likes

#12

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
― Henry Austin Dobson

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#13

“My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.”
― Bruno Schulz

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#14

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: forgiveness, hiding-place

2042 likes

#15

“Human nature. I don’t like human nature, but I do like human beings.”
― Ellen Glasgow, In This Our Life

810 likes

#16

“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.”
― Francesco Petrarch

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#17

“If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you.”
― Charles Spurgeon

236 likes

#18

“Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

254 likes

#19

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

tags: change, tolstoy

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#20

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

1615 likes

#21

“Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.”
― Delia Ephron, Sister Mother Husband Dog: Etc.

tags: truth

992 likes

#22

“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: human-rights, inspirational, politics

1113 likes

#23

“The future is not a gift. It is an achievement.”
― Robert F. Kennedy

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#24

“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

16943 likes

#25

“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all morality.”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: inspirational, life

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