Caroline > Caroline's Quotes

“Our words create us, from one moment to the next. When you lie, it’s that act of self-creation that’s sabotaged and corrupted.

Lucifer, Book 3, preface”
― Mike Carey, Lucifer, Book Three

“To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.”
― Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Vol. 3: American Statesmen

“Omit needless words.”
― William Strunk Jr., The Elements of Style; How to Speak and Write Correctly

“I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.”
― David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
― Plutarch

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast