Jennifer Derrick > Jennifer's Quotes

“Why should you believe your eyes? You were given eyes to see with, not to believe with. Your eyes can see the mirage, the hallucination as easily as the actual scenery.”
― Ward Moore, Bring the Jubilee

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
― Deepak Chopra

“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
― Vandana Shiva

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.”
― Jean Genet

“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.”
― Ben Okri

“I believe in the magic and authority of words.”
― René Char

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”
― Charles M. Schulz