Susanna Bohacsik > Susanna's Quotes

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Quietness is an essential part of all awareness. In quiet times and sleepy times, a child can dwell in thoughts of his own, and in songs and stories of his own.”
― Margaret Wise Brown

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

“A broken heart isn't so much the loss of the person as it is the loss of your dreams with that person. ”
― Diane Les Becquets, Love, Cajun Style

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

“Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― Emmanuel Kant

“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
willingness to learn is a choice.”
― Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen

“Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.”
― Ogden Nash

“Be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud.”
― Maya Angelou