Quotes - Karen (karenchamerlik) (Saint Paul, MN) Showing 1-30 of 119

#1

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

tags: change, growth

2146 likes

#2

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

23681 likes

#3

“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
― Samuel Beckett

1852 likes

#4

“The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

1359 likes

#5

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: writing-advice

4142 likes

#6

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: misattributed-kurt-cobain

3322 likes

#7

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner

tags: courage, determination, hope, risk

6310 likes

#8

“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

tags: truth

11964 likes

#9

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

2456 likes

#10

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

2984 likes

#11

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: food, happiness

10473 likes

#12

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

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#13

“If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

tags: life-truths, reality-check

3245 likes

#14

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: life

2915 likes

#15

“It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.”
― Bill Watterson

5435 likes

#16

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
― Anne Bradstreet

tags: authority, brute-force, force, oppression, wisdom

1727 likes

#17

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

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#18

“Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.”
― Richard Russo

1469 likes

#19

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

tags: friends, friendship

4303 likes

#20

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”
― Beatrix Potter

tags: writing

3142 likes

#21

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende

tags: books

3373 likes

#22

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

tags: poetry

5049 likes

#23

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

tags: books, reading

9864 likes

#24

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

tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander

21816 likes

#25

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

8704 likes

#26

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

tags: reading, words, writing

2719 likes

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