Ann > Ann's Quotes

“A trap is only a trap if you don't know about it. If you know about it, it's a challenge.”
― China Miéville, King Rat

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Imaginations are first where dreams begin.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Anger can kill, even a feather gently blowing in the wind.”
― Anthony Liccione

“It is better to have God over your shoulder, than carry the world alone on your back.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems”
― Epictetus

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”
― Epictetus

“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”
― Epictetus

“Only with a leaf
can I talk of the forest,”
― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

“TIME

Time
And how it slips through my fingers
Without putting its ring on them,

And I remain simply its lover”
― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

“Handcuffs weigh much more than gravestones.

(from "Gratitude")”
― Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
― Daniel Defoe

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“Expect nothing and you'll always be surprised”
― Daniel Defoe

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”
― Amos Oz

“There are lots of women who are attracted to tyrannical men. Like moths to a flame. And there are some women who do not need a hero or even a stormy lover but a friend. Just remember that when you grow up. Steer clear of the tryant lovers, and try to locate the ones who are looking for a man as a friend, not because they are feeling empty themselves but because they enjoy making you full too. And remember that friendship between a woman and a man is something much more precious and rare than love: love is actually something quite gross and even clumsy compared to friendship. Friendship includes a measure of sensitivity, attentiveness, generosity, and a finely tuned sense of moderation.”
― Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“Just close your eyes and enjoy the roller coaster that is life.”
― Zayn Malik

“We have a choice..To Live or To Exist.”
― Harry Styles

“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”
― Niels Bohr

“Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a
rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently
and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.