Quotes - Cleo Jansen (Nijmegen, 03, Netherlands) Showing 1-30 of 252

#1

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

tags: life

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#1

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy

36843 likes

#2

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: inspirational

33861 likes

#2

“Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?"
"If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: clary, clothes, jace, wounds

12641 likes

#3

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
― Helen Keller

13324 likes

#3

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: attributed-no-source

28141 likes

#4

“There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.”
― Mae West

tags: women

8247 likes

#4

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

tags: comedy, life, yourself

25782 likes

#5

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

tags: activism

8934 likes

#5

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain

tags: bookroom, books, libraries, wisdom

10422 likes

#6

“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: troubles

4693 likes

#6

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

15494 likes

#7

“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hatches the Egg

tags: dr-seuss, humor, inspirational, musical

3065 likes

#7

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self

9089 likes

#7

“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: humor, philosophy

5116 likes

#8

“ASAP. Whatever that means. It must mean, 'Act swiftly awesome pacyderm!”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

tags: asap

1516 likes

#8

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
― Albert Einstein

9089 likes

#8

“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: fate, humor, simile

13156 likes

#9

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
― Dr. Seuss

tags: books

2288 likes

#9

“Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.”
― Anthony G. Oettinger

tags: humor, misattributed-to-groucho-marx, time

6194 likes

#10

“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”
― Dr. Seuss

1590 likes

#10

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: life, science, wisdom

13967 likes

#11

“A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: books, children-s-books, reading

13380 likes

#11

“You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go!

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#12