2026 Reading Challenge

Amy > Amy's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 42
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn
    “I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-marilyn-monroe
    62116 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Marilyn Monroe
    “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, inspirational
    49966 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Lewis Carroll
    “She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    5871 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Lewis Carroll
    “Curiouser and curiouser.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: children-s-lit, favorites, humor
    1303 likes

    • like
  • #6
    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth
    19791 likes

    • like
  • #7
    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
    130136 likes

    • like
  • #8
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
    114361 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135496 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92174 likes

    • like
  • #11
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    ― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book
    tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom
    44320 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
    77744 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71686 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Maya Angelou
    “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
    89086 likes

    • like
  • #15
    Charlaine Harris
    “Darling, you can nail my ass anytime,” he said charmingly, and turned to go back to his table.”
    ― Harris Charlaine
    tags: eric-northman, sookie-stackhouse
    114 likes

    • like
  • #16
    Charlaine Harris
    “Eric was holding my hands, and I was digging my nails into him like we were doing something else. He won't mind, I though, as I realized I'd drawn blood. And sure enough, he didn't. "Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead
    tags: eric-northman, sookie-eric, sookie-stackhouse, sweet-talk, true-blood
    198 likes

    • like
  • #17
    Charlaine Harris
    “Some might think you suicidal."
    "Well, 'some' can stick it up their ass.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, All Together Dead
    tags: defiance, eric-northman, sookie-stackhouse, true-blood
    256 likes

    • like
  • #18
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
    165224 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Charlaine Harris
    “I don't like having feelings," Eric said coldly, and he left.
    That was a tough exit line to top.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead
    tags: eric-northman, sookie-eric, sookie-stackhouse
    390 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Charlaine Harris
    “Sometimes the bitch wins.”
    ― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead
    274 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Albert Camus
    “And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Plague
    tags: love
    589 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Lewis Carroll
    “I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass
    2149 likes

    • like
  • #23
    Lewis Carroll
    “Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    tags: alice-in-wonderland, carroll, logic
    856 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    ― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
    3579 likes

    • like
  • #25
    Judy Garland
    “Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
    ― Judy Garland
    tags: be-yourself, greatness, individuality
    2507 likes

    • like
  • #26
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69680 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Rita Mae Brown
    “About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.”
    ― Rita Mae Brown
    tags: be-yourself, individuality, love
    2233 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
    88102 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
    40759 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy
    81811 likes

    • like
  • #31
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
    84286 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From Amy’s Quotes

attributed-no-source
misattributed-marilyn-monroe
be-yourself
inspirational
children-s-lit
favorites
humor
insanity
lies
lying
self-indulgence
truth
ataraxy
confidence
fitting-in
individuality
misattributed-dr-seuss
those-who-matter
action
change
misattributed-to-gandhi
philosophy
wish
books
simile
soul
memory
misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln
misattributed-to-mark-twain
remaining-silent
wisdom
carpe-diem
education
learning
intelligence
self-deprecation
eric-northman
sookie-stackhouse
sookie-eric
sweet-talk
true-blood
defiance
best
life
love
mistakes
out-of-control
worst
alice-in-wonderland
carroll
logic
greatness
accomplishment
conformity
friendship
misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
enemies
forgiveness
strategy