Allie Beinhacker > Allie's Quotes

“We are A-to-Z thinkers, fretting about A, obsessing over Z, yet forgetting all about B through Y.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals / Ecce Homo

“He uses fear as an engine, not as a break.”
― Paul Coelho

“When I had all the answers the questions changed”
― Paulo Coelho

“The sun came in through the open windows, just like the wind, and it blew her hair backward and forward, and it wasn't hot and it wasn't cold and it wasn't early and it wasn't late and they drank beer and the road had no end and it really sounded like God was finally playing all his greatest hits.”
― Ray Loriga, My Brother's Gun

“Some say the good is found in happiness. But how do we know what happiness is and how can happiness be defined? If happiness and good are not objective terms, we cannot deal with them scientifically and since they aren't objective, they just exist in your mind, so if you want to be happy, you just change your mind. Ha ha ha.”
― Robert M. Pirsig

“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“You have these lines you won’t cross. But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won’t instantly come to an end. You’ve taken a big, black, bold line and you’ve made it a little bit gray. And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and you think, There was a line here once, I think.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.”
― Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous

“The world is your kaleidoscope, and the varying combinations of colours, which at every succeeding moment it presents to you are the exquisitely adjusted pictures of your ever-moving thoughts.”
― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library