Quotes - Saidah Gilbert (Trinidad and Tobago) Showing 1-27 of 27

#1

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: eating-reading

#2

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

2800 likes

#3

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

2325 likes

#4

“I have work to do, and I am afraid not to do it.”
― John O'hara

1104 likes

#5

“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.”
― Steve Jobs

2917 likes

#6

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

1540 likes

#7

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: wonder

2207 likes

#8

“Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms.”
― Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

1217 likes

#9

“Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.”
― Russell Banks, Continental Drift

tags: books

1739 likes

#10

“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

tags: adoration, infatuation, love

2827 likes

#11

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

tags: inspirational, life-lessons

3983 likes

#12

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

2705 likes

#13

“A book is a dream that you hold in your hands."

(As quoted on BookRiot, June 18, 2013)”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, dreams

1529 likes

#14

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

1961 likes

#15

“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
― Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

tags: love

1398 likes

#16

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”
― Ntozake Shange

1590 likes

#17

“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: attention, direction, focus, inspirational, motivational

3313 likes

#18

“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: book-lovers, libraries, reading

3611 likes

#19

“Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.”
― Tamora Pierce, Melting Stones

tags: humor, obedience

3544 likes

#20

“That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!”
― Connie Willis, Passage

tags: death, life, literature, messages

1566 likes

#21

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between.”
― André Aciman

1294 likes

#22

“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
― Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

tags: fairy-tales, humor, humorous, philosophy, psychology

4138 likes

#23

“Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch.”
― judy blume

2303 likes

#24

“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

9207 likes

#25

“Flawed, imperfect creatures! That's what we both are, oga! That's what we ALL are!”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death

846 likes

#26

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
― André Brink

1116 likes

#27

“Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.”
― Voltaire, Candide

1312 likes

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