Lauri > Lauri's Quotes

“...there are no secrets unless you keep them to yourself, and this was the greatest secret I had ever had to keep in my life so far.”
― Roald Dahl, My Year

“I like enthusiasts of any kind.”
― Roald Dahl, My Year

“...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.”
― Roald Dahl, My Year

“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption

“I’ve come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death . . . is the true measure of the Divine within us.”
― Alan Brennert, Moloka'i

“God didn’t give man wings; He gave him the brain and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. “I’ve come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death . . . is the true measure of the Divine within us.”
― Alan Brennert, Moloka'i

“In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail—or if you’re not the best—it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome . They’re tackling problems, charting new courses, working on important issues. Maybe they haven’t found the cure for cancer, but the search was deeply meaningful.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“That is the motto women should constantly repeat over and over again. Good for her! Not for me.”
― Amy Poehler, Yes Please

“However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, "I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.”
― amy poehler, Yes Please

“One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“At a certain age almost all the questions a person asks him or herself are really just about one thing: how should you live your life?”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“An unreasonable amount of paperwork is required these days just to be a human being.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“A human being may not choose her circumstances, but she does choose her actions”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“You have to understand that when one is just standing there looking, then just for a second one is ready to jump. If one does it, one dares to do it. But if one waits, it’ll never happen.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“A few years turned into more years, and more years turned into all years. Years have a habit of behaving like that.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“If you can be heard then you exist.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“It’s difficult to know when love blooms; suddenly one day you wake up and it’s in full flower. It works the same way when it wilts—one day it is just too late.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Because if we don’t forgive those we love, then what is left? What is love if it’s not loving our lovers even when they don’t deserve it?”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“The reason for her love of maps. It’s half worn away, the dot, and the red color is bleached. Yet it’s there, flung down there on the map halfway between the lower left corner and its center, and next to it is written, “You are here.”
Sometimes it’s easier to go on living, not even knowing who you are, when at least you know precisely where you are while you go on not knowing”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“All marriages have their bad sides, because people have weaknesses. If you live with another human being you learn to handle these weaknesses in a variety of ways. For instance, you might take the view that weaknesses are a bit like heavy pieces of furniture, and based on this you must learn to clean around them. To maintain the illusion.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie var här

“If a human being closes her eyes hard enough and for long enough, she can remember pretty well everything that has made her happy.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“The winter requires whoever is doing the watering to have a bit of faith, in order to believe that what looks empty has every potential.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Men are what they are because of what they do. Not what they say.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“And that laughter of hers, which, for the rest of his life, would make him feel as if someone was running around barefoot on the inside of his breast.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“He'd discovered that he liked houses. Maybe mostly because they were understandable. They could be calculated and drawn on paper. They did not leak if they were made water tight, they did not collapse if they were properly supported. Houses were fair, they gave you what you deserved. Which, unfortunately, was more than one could say about people.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“She wonders how much space a person has left in her soul to change herself, once she gets older. What people does she still have to meet, what will they see in her, and what will they make her see in herself?”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“Love is a strange thing. It takes you by surprise.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here

“You love football because it is instinctive. If a ball comes rolling down the street you give it a punt. You love it for the same reason you fall in love. Because you don't know how to avoid it.”
― Fredrik Backman, Britt-Marie Was Here