Candice > Candice's Quotes

“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Americus, Book I

“The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.”
― Vincent Van Gogh

“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Nobody gets everything in this life. You decide your priorities and you make your choices. I'd decided long ago that any cake I had would be eaten.”
― Donald E. Westlake, Two Much

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
― Will Rogers

“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion.”
― Chris Abani

“Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.”
― Henry Adams

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
― Anais Nin

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

“Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
― Ovid

“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us: The Achingly Sensual Political Poetry from a Journalist in El Salvador

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”
― Steve Martin

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
― Zadie Smith, White Teeth

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it.”
― Edith Wharton

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Why couldn’t love be simpler? No, it was simple. Simple and wonderful. It was hormones that complicated everything.”
― Elisa S. Amore, The Shadow of Fate