Michael > Michael's Quotes

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on outside was just diluted crap.”
― Henry Miller, Black Spring

“The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society.”
― Albert Einstein, Essays in Humanism

“To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are.”
― Steven Callahan, Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea

“This life is full of trials and tribulations, so you have to capture humor whenever and wherever you can find it.”
― Steven Callahan, Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”
― Germaine Greer

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.”
― Cher

“There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it.”
― Peter Singer

“There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.”
― J.B.S. Haldane, Daedalus

“The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.”
― Lynne Truss, Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters

“I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

“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

“A través de las espinas hasta las estrellas.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.”
― antonio machado

“...I'm terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

“...I didn't want to be a passenger on someone else's motorcycle.
I wanted to be the one riding that motherfucker.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton

“Un hogar se construye a partir de nuestras experiencias, de la gente que nos encontramos por el camino y sobre todo de la forma en que decidimos avanzar por la vida. La vida es movimiento. Un equilibrio inestable que puede cambiar en cualquier instante.”
― Miquel Reina, Luces en el Mar

“No es bueno dejarse arrastrar por los sueños y olvidarse de vivir, recuérdalo.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
― Anna Akhmatova

“Life is a constant journey. We move from one place to another,” said Aga. “The journey is what makes a fish different than a rock, movement different from stillness, light from darkness, life from death.”
― Miquel Reina, Lights on the Sea

“A home is built from our experiences, from the people we meet along the way, and, more than anything, from how we decide to journey through life. Life is movement. A precarious equilibrium that can change in an instant.”
― Miquel Reina, Lights on the Sea