Beth > Beth's Quotes

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
― Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

“When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.”
― James Burke

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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

“I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.”
― Carl Sandburg

“The best part about best friends is that you can maintain a relationship at any distance. In this day and age, we have Skype, FaceTime, text messages, audio messages, photo messages, and every social media site you can think of. With my friends, I send little photo updates almost daily and do a video call every week. It’s really not that difficult. We talk about anything and everything. I can confide my deepest, darkest secrets with my best friends and fear no judgment. It’s actually the best. And when we have the luxury of being in the same location, we pick things up like we were never separated. It really doesn’t matter where we go or what we do; it’s honestly just so nice to be in each other’s presence that the rest doesn’t matter.”
― Connor Franta, A Work in Progress

“One can give up many things for love, but should not give up oneself”
― Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles

“You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“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

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde