Sharon > Sharon's Quotes

“This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Be careful with the stories you tell about yourself".”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“The truest, most beautiful life never promises to be an easy one. We need to let go of the lie that it's supposed to be.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“The braver I am, the luckier I get.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Being envious of other people’s talents will make you bitter. Being envious of other people will steal your joy. Be yourself. Believe me, the sooner you are able to cheer yourself on, the better. Do what YOU do and BE who YOU are.”
― Jann Arden, If I Knew Then: Finding Wisdom in Failure and Power in Aging

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as your remember you're not alone, you will overcome.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“Just because you don’t experience prejudice in your everyday doesn’t stop it from existing for the rest of us.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“A home isn't always the house we live in. It's also the people we choose to surround ourselves with.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“I may have lost my mind," he told her. "Isn't it wonderful?”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“The world likes to see things in black and white, in moral and immoral. But there is gray in between. And just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesen't mean they will act upon it.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“To tell you the truth, I don't get how we can almost unanimously agree that murder is wrong, yet when it comes to rape some people still see shades of gray.”
― Megan Goldin, The Night Swim

“Yes, I have been a victim of a sexual assault. Well, probably several really. Funny how we were conditioned to accept these situations as unpleasant instead of outrageous.”
― Megan Goldin, The Night Swim

“I don’t get how we can almost unanimously agree that murder is wrong, yet when it comes to rape some people still see shades of gray.”
― Megan Goldin, The Night Swim

“Guncle Rule number eight: Live your life to the fullest every single day, because every day is a gift. That’s why people die. To teach us the importance of living.”
― Steven Rowley, The Guncle

“You can take my heart, but I can't let you take my dog.”
― Karin Slaughter

“I guess some of us just don’t recognize how valuable our time is here. How we shouldn’t spend our time mourning our loss, but thanking our lucky stars we had someone wonderful in our lives for no matter how long.”
― Lucy Score, Pretend You're Mine

“I can still be sad. But I don’t have to wallow or completely ignore the good that is still waiting for me. That’s careless and wasteful.”
― Lucy Score, Pretend You're Mine

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“My uniform is my freedom. It is the ultimate invisibility cloak.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“Tuesday, deep cleaning to give meaning. Wednesday, bath and kitchen. Thursday, dust we must. Friday, wash-and-dry day. Saturday, wild card. Sunday, shop and chop.”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“And the more I understand, the more questions I have”
― Nita Prose, The Maid

“That the beginning and the end may have been chosen for us, the string already spun, but the middle had always been left undetermined, to be woven and shaped by us.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“The measure of your life lies within.”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“Its not the length of life, but the depth of life”
― Nikki Erlick, The Measure

“Love changes us. It strengthens us, and dents us, and lifts us, and guides us. If we sleep, if we suffer the side effect, if we're no longer shaped by the people we love... who are we?”
― Nikki Erlick, The Poppy Fields