Quotes - Roxanne (Green Bay, WI) Showing 1-26 of 26

#1

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

10092 likes

#2

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

9012 likes

#3

“I need, therefore I imagine.”
― Carlos Fuentes

839 likes

#4

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”
― St. Francis Of Assisi, The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

tags: inspirational

4836 likes

#5

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

7685 likes

#6

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

tags: life, living, philosophy, women

4923 likes

#7

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
― alice walker, The Color Purple

tags: color, god, purple, religion

1896 likes

#8

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

9004 likes

#9

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

11453 likes

#10

“Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

2011 likes

#11

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

tags: kindness

4873 likes

#12

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Diggers

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking

21431 likes

#13

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”
― C.S. Lewis

1925 likes

#14

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell

tags: comfort, home, winter

2369 likes

#15

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

4938 likes

#16

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

tags: art

3377 likes

#17

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

tags: books, needs, stories, storytelling, writing

4558 likes

#18

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
― Ovid, Heroides

1304 likes

#19

“Some say that love is the sweetest feeling, the purest form of joy, but that isn't right. It's not love--it's relief.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles

73 likes

#20

“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

2499 likes

#21

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

tags: life, unfairness

3223 likes

#22

“I've always loved high style in low company.”
― Anita Loos

758 likes

#23

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21838 likes

#24

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

3490 likes

#25

“We are made of stardust; why not take a few moments to look up at the family album?”
― Natalie Angier, The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

1432 likes

#26

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

2208 likes

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