Kristina > Kristina's Quotes

“I fool you. I fool everyone.”
― Lisa Scottoline, Every Fifteen Minutes

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Then Ordinary understood why he hadn't recognized his Big Dream when it was right in front of him. The lovely city he'd imagined all along was not his Dream - but a picture of what his Dream would accomplish.”
― Bruce Wilkinson

“don't spend all of your time and energy
giving someone else your life
share yourself in portions
enough to have some for them
enough to still hold onto you.”
― Renaada Williams, becoming.

“I don’t view giving birth as something that will add greater value to the world than what I’m already doing.”
― Jenn Sadai, No Kids Required

“Babies are ridiculously cute for a reason. If you had to change diapers, wipe drool, and take care of every need for something hideous, you wouldn’t want to do it.”
― Jenn Sadai, No Kids Required

“If some men supposed themselves free it was only because they did not understand that they were imprisoned—bars could be made of any shadowy substance, any dreamy loss of light.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, With Shuddering Fall

“To sum it all up, he taught me two things: I am still not good enough, and I am too good for him.”
― Christina Hart, Letting Go Is an Acquired Taste

“Few things are as attractive or profitable as human tragedy.”
― D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer

“I would tell her that I would rather be a great man of few words, than simply another man of too many.”
― D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer

“There is so much melancholy involved with remembering, isn’t there? We have this ability to recall the things we once loved above all else, but lack the ability to actually relive those moments. It’s like the cruelest of mirages. We see it as it was, but know it shall never be again. It makes one wish to never have remembered it at all.”
― D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer

“I prefer obscurity. It allows me to be myself and not have to consider what others would have me be.”
― D.W. Ulsterman, The Writer