H.A. Leuschel > H.A.'s Quotes

“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
― Roald Dahl

“If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.”
― Doris Lessing

“Nothing that happens to a writer–however happy,however tragic–is ever wasted”
― P.D. James

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”
― Stephen King

“My imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

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

“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“Look at me." Rosalind speaks very quietly. "Look at the way I choose to live. Ask yourself just how tough a person has to be to live like this.”
― H.P. Wood, Magruder's Curiosity Cabinet

“it's not about being fearless, it's about acting in spite of fear”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies: The past is alive in the form of gnawing interior discomfort. Their bodies are constantly bombarded by visceral warning signs, and, in an attempt to control these processes, they often become expert at ignoring their gut feelings and in numbing awareness of what is played out inside. They learn to hide from their selves.” (p.97)”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“He locked you up because he knew—the bastard knew what a treasure you are. That you are worth more than land or gold or jewels. He knew, and wanted to keep you all to himself.”

The words hit me, even as they soothed some jagged piece in my soul. “He did—does love me, Rhysand.”

“The issue isn’t whether he loved you, it’s how much. Too much. Love can be a poison.” And then he was gone.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“The only control you have is the amount of work you put into something. Never lose because someone else worked harder than you.”
― Candy Atkins

“We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“...one could argue that it is reasonable to suppose that cultures that have provided the horizon of meaning for large numbers of human beings, of diverse characters and temperaments, over a long period of time - that have, in other words, articulated their sense of the good, the holy, the admirable - are almost certain to have something that deserves our admiration and respect, even if it is accompanied by much that we have to abhor and reject... We need only a sense of our own limited part in the whole human story to accept [this] presumption. It is only arrogance, or some analogous moral failing, that can deprive us of this.”
― Charles Taylor, Multiculturalism

“We know better than to compare ourselves with others online. We know a Facebook feed, for most, is a glorified highlights reel, a round-up of our best moments, our funniest selves, our greatest champions. We know not to compare our worst with someone else’s best. But”
― Erin Loechner, Chasing Slow: Courage to Journey Off the Beaten Path

“One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“house divided against itself could not stand.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker