Rob > Rob's Quotes

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“But we are always optimists when it comes to time; we think there will be time to do things with other people. And time to say things to them.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Loving someone is like moving into a house," Sonja used to say. "At first you fall in love with all the new things, amazed every morning that all this belongs to you, as if fearing that someone would suddenly come rushing in through the door to explain that a terrible mistake had been made, you weren't actually supposed to live in a wonderful place like this. Then over the years the walls become weathered, the wood splinters here and there, and you start to love that house not so much because of all its perfection, but rather for its imperfections. You get to know all the nooks and crannies. How to avoid getting the key caught in the lock when it's cold outside. Which of the floorboards flex slightly when one steps on them or exactly how to open the wardrobe doors without them creaking. These are the little secrets that make it your home.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words. She”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“She could only hope they could read the depth of sorrow in her face, to recognize that it was true, and not fleeting. I”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. Outside,”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Why shouldn’t things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together. George”
― Annie Proulx, Barkskins

“Life goes on, after all, and one must always seek the lesson even through the sorrow. Never remain static; never stop collecting information. And”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man

“When the mind is tired, or the soul is disquieted, let us go to the woods and fill our lungs with the rain-washed and the sun-cleansed air, and our hearts with the beauty of tree, flower, crystal, and gem.” The”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man

“Nothing in the natural world, no forest, no river, no insect nor leaf has any intrinsic value to men. All is worthless, utterly dispensable unless we discover some benefit to ourselves in it—even the most ardent forest lover thinks this way. Men behave as overlords. They decide what will flourish and what will die. I believe that humankind is evolving into a terrible new species and I am sorry that I am one of them. The”
― Annie Proulx, Barkskins

“All of us struggle to strike a balance between the image we present to the world and the reality of our inner landscape.”
― Dan Harris, 10% Happier