Bren > Bren's Quotes

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door

“I was a child who listened to trees and felt the disappointments of the dead. I had friends but they weren't as real as those invisible things that inhabited secret places in my mind.”
― Bett Williams, Girl Walking Backwards

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.”
― Danny Kaye

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.”
― Nikita Gill

“I was dreamy, stubborn, and selectively fanatical; my idea of a productive day, as both a child and an adult, was reading for hours and staring out the window.”
― Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

“In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
― Drew Barrymore

“We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.”
― Chris Cleave, The Other Hand

“Love is so short, and forgetting takes so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

“I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
― Robert Frost

“Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“I was a dreamy somnambulant child. I vexed my teachers with my precocious reading ability paired with an ability to apply it to anything they deemed practical.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“Do no harm, but take no shit.”
― Moïra Fowley-Doyle, Spellbook of the Lost and Found

“There is two things everybody got to find out for theirselves. They got to find out about love and they got to find out about living.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
― Nicholas Sparks, True Believer

“His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade”
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry

“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― kurt vonnegut

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”
― Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels

“The morning, like all San Francisco mornings, promised spring. In California, the seasons come daily: spring, the dewy mornings draped lightly in gray mist; summer, when the sun burns through and rises directly overhead at midday; afternoon autumns, crisp breezy, when colors show off and the air smells clean into twilight; winter is the night.”
― Elizabeth Stark, Shy Girl