Jasmine Bamlet > Jasmine's Quotes

“To be a woman who thrives, you have to pinpoint what's good about you and let the confidence in that guide you.”
― Iliza Shlesinger, Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity

“It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the middle. In that confusing moment of time between my birth and my death.”
― H.T. Martin

“The rumble starts today. Right here, right now. Time to be gutsy as hell.”
― Kate White, The Gutsy Girl Handbook: Your Manifesto for Success

“I love my job here. I appreciate all your support with my efforts, and it’s been exciting to see the results. As you know, business is up twenty percent over last year at this time [hand her the memo sheet now]. I’d like you to consider changing my title to [fill in the blank] and taking my salary up to [fill in blank]. I’d really like to show you what I could do in this new role.”
― Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know – A Straight-Talking Guide for Career Transitions in Today's Economic Climate

“it’s this: the squeaky wheel definitely gets the grease. One of the most important things you must learn to do in your career is ask—in the right way. You must ask for money, responsibility, opportunities, title changes, benefits, bonuses, and perks. And don’t”
― Kate White, I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know – A Straight-Talking Guide for Career Transitions in Today's Economic Climate

“Research shows that striving can become a bad habit.”
― Kate White, The Gutsy Girl Handbook: Your Manifesto for Success

“Hard work and intention often go unnoticed. All people see is what you don't do or what they think you should be doing better.”
― Iliza Shlesinger, Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity

“See, you teach people how to treat you. If you don't like someone's behavior toward you, educate them. Your Girl Logic might be urging you to crawl into a corner, to cry or sulk and pretend it's not happening. And of course you need to pick your battles... But if you aren't getting the respect you deserve, demand it.”
― Iliza Shlesinger, Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity

“that’s the great part of Girl Logic: it’s nudges is to push yourselves, question what we want, and refine our own ideas about what will make us happier, better people”
― Iliza Shlesinger, Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity

“My whole life, my stepdad has described chances as "at bats" - meaning how many times you're allowed to step up to the plate and swing, hit or miss. You get "at bats" because you're good enough to miss and still be invited to the plate.”
― Iliza Shlesinger, Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity

“My rule, in both work and life, is to always bet on myself.”
― Iliza Shlesinger, Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity

“Fuck “try.” Trying is an open invitation to failure, just another way of saying, “If I fail, it’s not my fault, I tried.”
― Tim S. Grover, Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

“Decide. Commit. Act. Succeed. Repeat.”
― Tim S. Grover, Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable

“Anne laughed.

"I don't want sunbursts or marble halls, I just want you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“Oh", she thought, "how horrible it is that people have to grow up-and marry-and change!”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen ... wonderful things.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“Most of the trouble in life comes from misunderstanding, I think,' said Anne.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“I wonder if it will be—can be—any more beautiful than this,’ murmured Anne, looking around her with the loving, enraptured eyes of those to whom ‘home’ must always be the loveliest spot in the world, no matter what fairer lands may lie under alien stars.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“I don't feel like tame domestic joys today. I want to feel alone and free and wild.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne Of The Island

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“There is so much in the world for us all if we only have the eyes to see it, and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it to ourselves--so much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

“Just think of all the great and noble souls who have lived and worked in the world. Isn't it worthwhile to come after them and inherit what they won and taught? And think of all the great people in the world today! Isn't it worthwhile to think we can share their inspiration? And the, all the great souls that will come in the future? Isn't it worthwhile to work a little and prepare the way for them-make just one step in their path easier? - Anne Shirley”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island