Eva > Eva's Quotes

“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist”
― René Magritte

“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
― George Carlin

“True friends are families which you can select.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
― Coco Chanel

“The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.”
― Coco Chanel

“Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.”
― Coco Chanel

“if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“she was a rose
in the hands of those
who had no intention
of keeping her”
― Rupi Kaur

“it takes grace to remain kind in cruel situations”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“After you get stung, you can't get unstung
no matter how much you whine about it.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

“If you were quiet about something then it never happened. Someone would write a song about it for sure. Everything you’re not supposed to know about, or talk about, eventually turned up in a song. Some”
― Jennifer Clement, Prayers for the Stolen

“She told me to tell you love is not a feeling. It's a sacrifice.”
― Jennifer Clement, Prayers for the Stolen

“People, in general, would rather die than forgive. It's that hard.”
― Sue Monk Kidd

“Do you believe in God, Arthur?" I said, eating the last piece of sponge.
"Do I believe in an old man in the clouds with a white beard judging us mortals with a moral code from one to ten? Good Lord no, my sweet Elly, I do not! Do I believe in a mystery; the unexplained phenomenon that is life itself? The greater something that illuminates inconsequence in our lives; that gives us something to strive for as well as the humility to brush ourselves down and start all over again? Then yes, I do. It is the source of art, of beauty, of love, and proffers the ultimate goodness to mankind. That to me is God.That to me is life. That is what I believe in.”
― Sarah Winman, When God Was a Rabbit

“Memories" she said to me "no matter how small or inconsequential, are the papers that define us”
― Sarah Winman, When God Was a Rabbit

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos