Eva > Eva's Quotes

“Right, we’ll pick up from yesterday. Things you like to do in your spare time. Cycling, dancing, reading, cooking. Who’d like to go first?” Silence. All eyes but Tomas’s were down and Wren didn’t want to ask him. She had a horrible feeling his hobby would be finding the G-spot.”
― Barbara Elsborg, Girl Most Likely To

“«Yo soy completo, perfecto, fuerte, poderoso, amoroso, armonioso y feliz».”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“Didn’t they know that life was one long narrow escape?”
― Yael Politis, The Lonely Tree

“Each person is responsible for their actions.” “Generally, I’d agree,” she said, “but not in this case. The stakes were too high. I put Margaret in danger. I never breathed a word of this to anyone, not even Buck.” She looked me straight in the eye. “But I’m telling you because I don’t want you to make the same mistake. Control your jealousy, or it will control you.”
― Janet Skeslien Charles, The Paris Library

“Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the [Other] from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners.”23 We say to ourselves, “I would never do what they did. I am nothing like them.” To forgive and embrace, rather than to exclude or subjugate, requires a self-image that does not strengthen itself through drawing such contrasts.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World

“You are not,” said Norman Vincent Peale, “you are not what you think you are; but what you think, you are.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

“The world uses more than 4 billion gallons every day. When you’re using any product at that kind of volume, you can’t simply stop overnight.”
― Bill Gates, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“If indeed all lives mattered, we would not need to emphatically proclaim that "Black Lives Matter." Or, as we discover on the BLM website: Black Women Matter, Black Girls Matter, Black Gay Lives Matter, Black Bi Lives Matter, Black Boys Matter, Black Queer Lives Matter, Black Men Matter, Black Lesbians Matter, Black Trans Lives Matter, Black Immigrants Matter, Black Incarcerated Lives Matter. Black Differently Abled Lives Matter. Yes, Black Lives Matter, Latino/Asian American/Native American/Muslim/Poor and Working-Class White Peoples Lives matter. There are many more specific instances we would have to nane before we can ethically and comfortably claim that All Lives Matter.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”
― Mary Oliver

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.”
― Mary Oliver

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
― Mary Oliver

“You reacted badly to being loved well.”
― Chloe Liese, Always Only You

“There’s a truth that’s deeper than experience. It’s beyond what we see, or even what we feel. It’s an order of truth that separates the profound from the merely clever, and the reality from the perception. We’re helpless, usually, in the face of it; and the cost of knowing it, like the cost of knowing love, is sometimes greater than any heart would willingly pay. It doesn’t always help us to love the world, but it does prevent us from hating the world. And the only way to know that truth is to share it, from heart to heart,”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“Dear little Swallow,” said the Prince, “you tell me of marvellous things, but more marvellous than anything is the suffering of men and of women.  There is no Mystery so great as Misery.  Fly over my city, little Swallow, and tell me what you see there.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

“You haven’t forgotten that. You’re just really good at pretending it didn’t happen.”
― Grahame Claire, It's Not Over

“Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”
― Maya Angelou

“Sometimes I find the only way to ease the worst forms of pain is to damage myself in a different way. Distract my attention from the things that can and will break me. A little hurt to help me heal.”
― Alice Feeney, His & Hers

“Even selfless acts, like helping someone, are motivated by our need to escape feelings of guilt and injustice.”
― Nir Eyal, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
― Wole Soyinka

“I will  m fear no evil,     for  n you are with me;         your  o rod and your staff,         they comfort me.     5 You  p prepare a table before me         in  q the presence of my enemies;     you  r anoint my head with oil;         my  s cup overflows. 6    Surely [4] goodness and mercy [5] shall follow me         all the days of my life,     and I shall  t dwell [6] in the house of the LORD          u forever. [7] The King of Glory A Psalm of David.     PSALM 24  v The earth is the LORD’s and the fullness thereof, [1]         the world and those who dwell”
― Anonymous, Holy Bible: English Standard Version

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“آگاهی و شعور، در میزان انسانیت ما دیده می شود. .”
― فیلسوف حکیم اُرُد بزرگ خراسانی

“بزرگ زادگی، تنها از آن کسانی است که انسانیت دارند.”
― فیلسوف حکیم اُرُد بزرگ خراسانی

“انسانیت که باشد، سوء استفاده از دیگران گم می شود.”
― فیلسوف حکیم اُرُد بزرگ خراسانی

“انسانیت به ما می گوید، ارزش دیگران را پاس بداریم. فیلسوف حکیم اُرُدُ بزرگ خراسانی”
― فیلسوف حکیم اُرُد بزرگ خراسانی