Jenny > Jenny's Quotes

“Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!

Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Essential Rumi

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles

“Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth.”
― Jean Paul Sarte

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
― Rumi Jalalud-Din

“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.”
― Plato

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― Andre Gide

“The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of”
― Manuel Puig

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”
― Erica Jong

“Es que habría que saber aceptar las cosas como se dan, y apreciar lo bueno que te pase, aunque no dure. Porque nada es para siempre.”
― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman

“Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.”
― Rumi

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
― Nora Ephron

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
― Lao Tzu

“By letting go it all gets done.”
― Lao-Tzu

“Those who do not weep, do not see.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

“And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.”
― Constantine P. Cavafy

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
― T.S. Eliot

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
― Ann Landers