K.M. Frost > K.M.'s Quotes

“There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.”
― Shmuley Boteach

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none”
― Lois Lowry, Gathering Blue

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
― Shusaku Endo

“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Vince Flynn, Executive Power

“The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.”
― Phyllis Diller

“Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can.”
― Richard Hughes

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go--if there are no doors or windows--he walks through a wall.”
― Bernard Malamud

“Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.”
― Charlotte Bronte

“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
― Margaret Walker

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“The bravest people are the ones who don’t mind looking like cowards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”
― Elaine May

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.”
― Marguerite Duras