Diana > Diana's Quotes

“God created each one of us in our own unique way. Just like a snowflake we all hold a blueprint that differs one from another. It's great to lose weight and keep our bodies healthy and strong, but it's also important that we appreciate who we are today - with or without extra pounds.”
― Candace Cameron Bure, Reshaping It All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness

“There will never be another woman who owns the look, the personality, and the experience that you do. Those ingredients make up the recipe that defines who you are, and it's your gift from the Lord - own it.”
― Candace Cameron Bure, Reshaping It All: Motivation for Physical and Spiritual Fitness

“At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums?”
― Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

“It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are too defeated or embittered to recognise from day to day.”
― Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

“Travel agents would be wiser to ask us what we hope to change about our lives rather than simply where we wish to go.”
― Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary

“Standing in the small space, Holly was overwhelmed by memories and a strange protective feeling for the child she'd been”
― Beth Harbison, Thin, Rich, Pretty

“The thrill of falling in love is often the thrill of being loved; the thrill of marriage is the thrill of loving someone for the rest of your life. Each day - and year - that passes is a triumph of this act of loving.”
― Susan Waggoner, I do! I do!: The Origins of 100 Classic Wedding Traditions

“When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, Barefoot

“I don't know which is more nutty. All this stuff I do outside of work, or the stuff I do all week.”
― Monica Ali, Untold Story

“Tevis being childless meant you felt a little sorry for her, and a bit jealous. Probably the same way she felt about you.”
― Monica Ali, Untold Story

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never be able to go back to that time that makes me cry every time I listen to it.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Three Weeks with My Brother

“Life, he decided, was for living, not for having, and he wanted to experience every moment that he could.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Three Weeks with My Brother

“They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.”
― Jane Green, Another Piece of My Heart

“The days are long, but the years are short.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“The things that go wrong often make the best memories.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

“And it feels good to feel young with you, and at the same time to grow old with you. And it's all those things together at the same moment.”
― Dave Isay, All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps

“Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!”
― Jerry Spinelli, Love, Stargirl

“The key is for you to discover what you love to do, what you were created to do, and then do it for the people around you with love. That is the abundant life, dear girl, no matter where in the world you live.”
― Robin Jones Gunn, Finally and Forever

“We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“And even though I adore the fact that Francesca has Ben's eyes, I also see now that her biological connection to us is irrelevant. She is her own little person. She is Francesca. If we weren't her "natural" parents, we would still have loved her just as much.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.”
― Liane Moriarty, What Alice Forgot

“They're all true. They all could have happened.”
― Ellen Sussman, French Lessons

“Do not be afriad! I can see that Americans are not afraid. They are not afraid of the sun, they are not afraid of the wind, they are not afraid of 'today'. They are, generally speaking, brave, good people. And so I say to you today, always be brave. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid. God is with you. Do not be afraid to search for God-then you will truly be the land of the free, the home of the brave. God Bless America.”
― Peggy Noonan, John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father