Karen > Karen's Quotes

“Don't raise your voice, improve your argument."

[Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]”
― Desmond Tutu

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
― Emily Dickinson

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Play it fuckin' loud!”
― Bob Dylan

“Sometimes, all you have to do is shift your perspective to see someone else’s truth.”
― Dan Brown, Origin

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
― Mark Twain

“I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.”
― Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“Who knows why people are different? We are born with a certain nature, I think. And then the world takes its swings at us.”
― Elizabeth Strout, Lucy by the Sea

“A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.”
― Iain Cameron Williams, The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue

“I’ve come close enough a few times to know there’s no good way to go. Some ways are better than others, of course, but however it happens, the end result will always be the same. I guess all you can do is try to be happy and make the most of your days, so when the time comes, the people you leave behind can rest happy knowing you lived your best life.”
― Andy Marr, A Matter of Life and Death