Christina Bolan > Christina's Quotes

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“I like to call in sick to work at places where I’ve never held a job. Then when the manager tells me I don’t work there, I tell them I’d like to. But not today, as I’m sick.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“It's just hard to see people from your past when your present is so cataclysmically fucked.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.”
― Jonathan Tropper, This is Where I Leave You

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce

“We actually contain a built-in ability to rise above restriction, incapacity, or limitation and, as a result of this ability, possess a vital adaptive spirit that we have not yet fully accessed. While this ability can lead us to transcendence, paradoxically it can lead also to violence; our longing for transcendence arises from our intuitive sensing of this adaptive potential and our violence arises from our failure to develop it.”
― Joseph Chilton Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence: A Blueprint of the Human Spirit