Eja Batbold > Eja's Quotes

“No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.”
― Madonna

“Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.”
― Michael Jordan

“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”
― John Dryden

“What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
― Deborah Day

“How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”
― Seth Godin, Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas

“Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be...”
― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“I hope.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.”
― Stephen King, Under the Dome

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

“So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday. You and me... everyday.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.”
― Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“But how could you live and have no story to tell?”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Nights

“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
― Howard Zinn

“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
― Howard Zinn

“Just breathing isn't living!”
― Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna

“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.”
― Leon Trotsky

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red