Quotes - Sarah (sarahannvoigt) (Munich, Germany) Showing 1-30 of 219

#1

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

#2

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: love

47038 likes

#3

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: encouragement, gandalf

11349 likes

#4

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: brotherhood-of-man, people, scout

3685 likes

#5

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92275 likes

#6

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing

20744 likes

#7

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

tags: life

17089 likes

#8

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth

16300 likes

#9

“That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

6463 likes

#10

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

3890 likes

#11

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

tags: essential, happiness, love

30824 likes

#12

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

tags: books, library

29739 likes

#13

“Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: belief, bravery, courage, fear, fears, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, strength

4905 likes

#14

“Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.”
― Toni Morrison, Jazz

tags: love

1082 likes

#15

“I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.”
― George Washington

63 likes

#16

“To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny”
― George Washington

tags: dutry

38 likes

#17

“The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

481 likes

#18

“If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

tags: inspirational, life-experience, self-development

360 likes

#19

“As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened”
― Kazuo Ishiguro

208 likes

#20

“She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

tags: friendship, love

1615 likes

#21

“You are your best thing”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

885 likes

#22

“You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.”
― James Clear, Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

673 likes

#23

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

tags: achievements

695 likes

#24

“You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake

tags: traveling

424 likes

#25

“Fertility is such a difficult feminist issue because our biology hasn't caught up with our politics.”
― Nell Frizzell, The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions

3 likes

#26

“By telling people, particularly women, that they could have it all if they just tried hard enough, we somehow took the onus off our employers to create workplaces in which that was actually possible.”
― Nell Frizzell, The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions

1 likes

#27

“Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

1084 likes

#28

“You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

614 likes

#29

“We are not quite novels.
We are not quite short stories.
In the end, we are collected works.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

335 likes

#30

“Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

302 likes

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