Rachel > Rachel's Quotes

“A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Truth.
It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.
Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“Happiness often comes when least expected.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“Women are very complicated, even if you are a psychiatrist.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience - well, not always, of course, but in actual fact, it is our less successful love affairs that enable us to appreciate the others. I think love protects us from one of the biggest problems facing the modern world: boredom.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Secrets of Love

“Many people see happiness only in their future.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“nature or nurture' said the professor. 'Whichever way the parents are to blame”
― Francois Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“The basic mistake people make is to think that happiness is the goal!”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“Nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love towards people who would be very suitable. Love is involuntary, that's the problem. Our personal histories prepare us to be attracted to people who unconsciously evoke emotions from our childhood or adolescence.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Secrets of Love

“Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“Lesson no. 5: Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story”
― François Lelord, Hector and the Search for Happiness

“People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.”
― François Lelord

“You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.”
― Francois Lelord

“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“I'd far rather be happy than right any day.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“For her I changed pebbles into diamonds, shoes into mirrors, I changed glass into water, I gave her wings and pulled birds from her ears and in her pockets she found the feathers, I asked a pear to become a pineapple, a pineapple to become a lightbulb, a lightbulb to become the moon, and the moon to become a coin I flipped for her love...”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Then she kissed him. Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they'll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don't know. She probably didn't even know I was there. But I'll always love her. All my life.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End