Paula > Paula's Quotes

“One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of lives but end in the end having lived only one.”
― Clifford Geertz

“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it." ~ Tulsi”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“If you let your fear of consequences prevent you from following your deepest instincts, your life will be safe, expedient, and thin.”
― Katherine Butler Hathaway

“You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“There's just one thing in this life that's better than happiness and that's freedom. It's more important to be free than to be happy.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues & My Own Private Idaho

“Morrison took being an outsider one step further. He said, in effect, 'That's okay, we LIKE it here. It hurts and it's hell, but it's a helluva lot more real than the trip I see YOU on.”
― Danny Sugarman

“The trouble is that each of us is his own hero, existing in a world of spear carriers.”
― Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage

“Women never understand. We fall in love with their defects, not their perfection.”
― Peter Danielson, Children of the Lion

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“He it is still and yet it is not he any longer.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“And it was the part of a wise man to forget inevitable calamities of human life in the enjoyment of the fleeting hour.”
― Edward Gibbon, The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire, 3 Vols

“If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, In the Harbor

“Anyone can 'outwit' a person who trusts them --- it doesn't take any brains to do that --- all one needs is no sense of honor.”
― Shirley Watkins, Georgina Finds Herself

“My brother and my friend haven't met before. He looks her up and down appraisingly; she looks him up and down disapprovingly. An expression of resignation crosses his face, as he realizes she knows too much about him.”
― Sarah Haywood, The Henna Artist / The Cactus