Isabelle > Isabelle's Quotes

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”
― Plato

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
― José N. Harris, MI VIDA: A Story of Faith, Hope and Love

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

“The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.”
― Jim Rohn

“A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader”
― Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

“People read for a multiplicity of reasons. Nearly forty years in, I can tell you why I inhale books like oxygen: I'm grateful for my one life, but I'd prefer to live a thousand --and my favorite books allow me to experience more on the page than I ever could in my actual life.”
― Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

“On the dining room table, beside a photo of us beaming and obviously very much in love in front of Sacre-Coeur in Paris, she left a simple, two-sentence note. Staring at the note, the writer in me loved her conciseness and eloquence -- the rest of me just plain loved her.”
― Michael Bowe, The Weight of a Moment

“It’s strange how the mind makes you think you were the one at fault when actually you were as much of a victim as anyone else”
― Steve McHugh, No Gods, Only Monsters: A New Novel in the Hellequin Chronicles Universe

“The power behind the most awful of humanity are the people we need to cut out from this world, like a gangrenous wound.”
― Steve McHugh, No Gods, Only Monsters: A New Novel in the Hellequin Chronicles Universe

“Love, my son, cannot be quantified by how and why. It is the intangible tether that connects your heart to others. It holds no conditions or rules, for if it did, it would not be love, but simply convenience. It is not found in the ‘because’, it is found in the ‘and yet’. Your father is strong, compassionate, and understanding, but it is not because of those things that I love him. Rather, they are why I admire him. He is also foolhardy, pig-headed, and he always says the wrong things. And yet, I love him anyway.”
― Ryan Cahill, The Exile

“It is never weak to grieve for the ones you love.”
― Ryan Cahill, The Exile

“He wasn’t exactly hideous, but his face looked like two hawks had crashed into each other in midair.”
― Thomas Howard Riley, We Break Immortals

“You did fail. But you are not failing. The failure is in the past. It is gone. You are now. Now you do not fail.”
― Thomas Howard Riley, We Break Immortals