Maggie Ensminger > Maggie's Quotes

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“I can't say this strongly enough, but our feelings about ourselves are actually the most important barometer for determining the condition of our lives!”
― Anita Moorjani, Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident

“One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“I’m no cactus expert, but I know a prick when I see one.”
― Mark A. Cooper, Royal Decree

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“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

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have loved the stars too well to fear the night.
---Elizabeth Middleton Bonner”
― Sara Donati, The Endless Forest

“The future is mysterious and frightening to you now, but in the end all will be well. There will be great happiness and great sorrow, you will have a family, you will find yourself capable of things you cannot now imagine. But you will persevere, and one day you will look around yourself and know that your life is good and that you are, in spite of all your early fears, happy.”
― Sara Donati