Marianna Randazzo > Marianna's Quotes

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.”
― Amy Tan

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.”
― Hellen Keller

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… Or so says the legend.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart. ”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.”
― Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“The soul is healed by being with children.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Every savage can dance.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
― Walt Whitman

“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”
― Coco Chanel

“I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”
― Coco Chanel

“Rather than standing or speaking for children, we need to stand with children speaking for themselves. We don't need a political movement for children... [we need to] build environments and policies for our collective future.”
― Sandra Meucci

“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice.”
― Peggy O'Mara

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
― Anais Nin

“Happy girls are the prettiest”
― Audrey Hepburn

“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
― Mary Tyler Moore

“If you would dance, my pretty Count, I'll play the tune on my little guitar..”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“countertransference),”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“Before you speak, ask yourself, What is this going to feel like to the person I’m speaking to?”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“People often mistake numbness for nothingness, but numbness isn’t the absence of feelings; it’s a response to being overwhelmed by too many feelings. John looks from his cell back”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed