Quotes - Christina Reeder (ladyreeder) (West Alexandria, OH) Showing 1-27 of 27

#1

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”
― Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

tags: intelligence, mind, poverty

#2

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

18418 likes

#3

“Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: rhett-butler-to-scarlett

1683 likes

#4

“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal

2578 likes

#5

“Reading one book is like eating one potato chip.”
― Diane Duane, So You Want to Be a Wizard

tags: books, reading

4669 likes

#6

“Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
― Desmond Tutu

tags: goodness, incrementalism, kindness

3191 likes

#7

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
― Henry Ford

tags: thinking

7718 likes

#8

“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”
― George S. Patton

tags: herd-mentality, inspiration, patton

2772 likes

#9

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

tags: growth, poetry

1733 likes

#10

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: coldness, depression, happiness, life, sad, sadness, sorrow

12185 likes

#11

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17094 likes

#12

“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes

tags: aging, death-and-dying

1151 likes

#13

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

3187 likes

#14

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

6691 likes

#15

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: romance, storytelling

3832 likes

#16

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

4503 likes

#17

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

4131 likes

#18