Wilma > Wilma'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

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

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

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.”
― W.E.B. DuBois

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Als we alleen maar dat wat we kunnen waarnemen met onze zintuigen voor waarheid aannemen, brengt kennis dan inzicht, of bevordert het aannames?”
― Ria Schopman, Alea

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Tante is niet weg. De atomen die haar lichaam bij elkaar hield, zijn vrij nu. Ze hoeven niet langer samen te werken om die ene persoon in stand te houden, het is als het rafelen van een trui, steek na steek verlaat de vorm waarin hij was gevangen. En al die miljarden atomen gaan op in iets anders: het huis van een slak, een mangobloesem en haar bijen. Ze zal zich in rivieren storten en naar zee vloeien, een glad schelpje zijn op de golven, zowel als de veren van een opstijgende visarend én de wind die erdoorheen blaast.”
― Annelies Verbeke, Dertig dagen

“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married

“Ik wil graag zien, denk ik, omdat ik dat kan, en leven, voluit en gretig, omdat ik dat toch moet en het dan maar beter goed kan doen.”
― Griet Op de Beeck, Kom hier dat ik u kus

“You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.”
― Colette

“Be the flame, not the moth.”
― Giacomo Casanova

“It had never crossed her mind that sending your child to school would be like going back to school yourself.”
― Liane Moriarty, Big Little Lies

“Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.”
― Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes

“In mijn dagelijkse pre-PCT-leven hield ik al van boeken, maar tijdens de voettocht kregen ze een diepere betekenis. ZE vormden de wereld waarin ik mezelf kon laten gaan wanneer de realiteit te eenzaam, hard of moeilijk werd om te verdragen.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life”
― Pablo Picasso

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“We're living in a funny world kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the good people are fighting to keep it from us. It's not good for us, know what I mean? If we had all we wanted to eat, we'd eat too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry. That's the way I understand it. That's about the size of some of the arguments I've heard.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
― James Dean

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Nothing worth having comes easy.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

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

“I swear it only hit me then, with full conscious force, who the real villains of this piece had been from start to finish…those lying, cancerous dogs of the mainstream media!”
― Paul Christensen

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson