Chasing Eternity Quotes

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the illusion of knowledge,” I whisper. It’s a quote from Stephen Hawking,”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad with power. -Charles Caleb Colton”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“nostalgia is history stripped of its suffering?”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“if we’re both making choices for others, at what point do our destinies become so entangled that we are merely two sides of the same spinning coin?”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“I’m struck by how what once felt like a devastating, life-altering revelation is now just another unfortunate event in a long string of them. Time and clarity have a way of softening the hard edges.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“Sometimes the simplest explanation is the one that sits directly in front of you.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“In Roman mythology,” Braxton says, “Orcus is a god of the underworld, tasked with punishing those who break their oaths. The Romans believed that breaking a sacred promise invited Orcus’s wrath—a sort of divine justice for failing to honor one’s word.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“Love doesn’t make you crazy. It’s not drama and chaos and insecurity. Not when it’s real. Love is grounding, healing, the most stabilizing force in the world.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“You know, there’s a quote by Maya Angelou,” I say. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust! –Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“That’s from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War,” I find myself saying, the words pulled from the secret well of knowledge hidden inside me. “Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“Shunryu Suzuki said, In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“Zen proverb that says: When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“Release them,” the man urges, as though reading my mind. “None of those events define you. Remember, an interesting experience on the path is not the path. The same goes for the terrible experiences. They’re simply fragments of a larger sequence that led you to this moment. What matters isn’t what happens, but what you make of what happens. The only way to become your best and brightest self is by transforming your experiences into opportunities, growth, and in your case, into seizing your destiny. Think of it as emotional alchemy. Your strength grows from your struggles.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“And yet, deep down, I know the time has come for that fearful side of me to die. The weight of my old identity, a mosaic of darkness and pain, is locked in a battle with the core of my being that yearns to shed the shackles that have so far defined me.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“I promise you this,” he goes on, “you are so much more than the negative things that happened to you.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“You’re clinging to your trauma because you’ve woven it into the very fabric of your being,” he says. “You’ve built your whole persona around abandonment, hardship, and betrayal. You’ve repeated these stories so many times, the idea of letting go feels like you’re losing yourself. What you need to remember is that they’re no more than threads that bind you to the past. Your only job now is to sever them.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“It’s about delving deep into yourself. It’s the process of confronting and conquering all the fears that have accumulated over the years. Once that’s behind you, you’ll begin again as a new, more powerful, version of yourself.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“Can you imagine how it feels to be so deeply anchored in your own power that you’re no longer swayed by external judgments or outside circumstances?”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“Your trauma has imprinted on your subconscious, causing you to mentally time travel to relive it repeatedly.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“Do you believe then that the sciences would have arisen and grown if the sorcerers, alchemists, astrologers, and witches had not been their forerunners? -Nietzsche”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity

“Someone recently told me that we’re always writing our own stories—all day, every day. That it’s the ones we play on repeat that determine our destiny.”
― Alyson Noel, Chasing Eternity