catnnaps > catnnaps's Quotes

Showing 1-30 of 42
« previous 1
sort by

    like
  • #1
    Zona Gale
    “I don't know a better preparation for life than love of poetry and a good digestion”
    ― Zona Gale
    683 likes

    • like
  • #2
    Diana Gabaldon
    “For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary”
    ― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander
    tags: love
    2185 likes

    • like
  • #3
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
    177314 likes

    • like
  • #4
    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
    127234 likes

    • like
  • #5
    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
    88125 likes

    • like
  • #6
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
    tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
    71716 likes

    • like
  • #7
    We accept the love we think we deserve.
    “We accept the love we think we deserve.”
    ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    tags: inspirational, love
    76605 likes

    • like
  • #8
    George R.R. Martin
    “Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
    ― George R. R. Martin
    tags: books, reading
    9855 likes

    • like
  • #9
    Haruki Murakami
    “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
    ― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
    tags: inspirational, running
    8525 likes

    • like
  • #10
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Without music, life would be a mistake.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
    tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
    74383 likes

    • like
  • #11
    David Mitchell
    “My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    4766 likes

    • like
  • #12
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
    135595 likes

    • like
  • #13
    Pablo Neruda
    “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
    ― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems
    tags: love
    7166 likes

    • like
  • #14
    Vicki Baum
    “There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
    ― Vicki Baum, Ballerina
    1387 likes

    • like
  • #15
    William W. Purkey
    “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
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
    128967 likes

    • like
  • #16
    H. Jackson Brown Jr.
    “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
    ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
    tags: actions, disappointed, disappointment, dream, dreams, explore, misattributed-mark-twain, sail
    60301 likes

    • like
  • #17
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
    64689 likes

    • like
  • #18
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
    78382 likes

    • like
  • #19
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: books, reading, truth
    7631 likes

    • like
  • #20
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
    3571 likes

    • like
  • #21
    Carlos Ruiz Zafón
    “Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
    ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
    tags: inspirational, soul, spiritual-growth
    3300 likes

    • like
  • #22
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality
    69747 likes

    • like
  • #23
    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
    62251 likes

    • like
  • #24
    Jane Austen
    “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
    ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
    tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor
    51625 likes

    • like
  • #25
    John Green
    “As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: love
    47047 likes

    • like
  • #26
    It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our
    “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    tags: abilities
    50594 likes

    • like
  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life
    47067 likes

    • like
  • #28
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
    ― Eleanor Roosevelt
    tags: attributed-no-source, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
    40770 likes

    • like
  • #29
    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
    45219 likes

    • like
  • #30
    Steve Martin
    “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
    ― Steve Martin
    tags: humor, obvious, simile
    35259 likes



Rss
« previous 1
All Quotes



Tags From catnnaps’s Quotes

love
attributed-no-source
be-yourself
gilbert-perreira
honesty
inspirational
misattributed-oscar-wilde
quote-investigator
dreams
reality
sleep
friendship
intelligence
self-deprecation
books
reading
running
music
philosophy
simile
soul
dance
heaven
hurt
life
sing
actions
disappointed
disappointment
dream
explore
misattributed-mark-twain
sail
humor
insanity
misattributed-ben-franklin
misattributed-to-einstein
darkness
drive-out
hate
light
peace
truth
spiritual-growth
accomplishment
conformity
individuality
aliteracy
classic
abilities
contentment
friends
misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
dragons
fairy-tales
paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
obvious