Jordan DuBose > Jordan's Quotes

“I love you with everything I am, everything I've been, and everything I hope to be. I love you with my past, and I love you for my future. I love you for the children we'll have and for the years we'll have together. I love you for every one of my smiles and even more, for every one of your smiles.”
― Julia quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”
― George Sand, Mauprat

“Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.”
― Patricia Briggs, Dragon Bones

“Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect”
― George Sand, Indiana

“One is happy as a result of one's own efforts once one knows the necessary ingredients of happiness: simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self denial to a point, love of work, and above all, a clear conscience.”
― George Sand

“You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.”
― George Sand

“Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

(La vie ressemble plus souvent à un roman qu'un roman ne ressemble à la vie.)”
― George Sand

“A day will come when everything in my life will be changed, when I shall do good to others, when some one will love me, when I shall give my whole heart to the man whi gives ne his; neanwhile, U will suffer in silence and keep my love as a reward for him who shall set me free.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
― George Sand

“The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.”
― George Sand, Indiana

“...Je n’ai pas cessé de l’être si c’est d’être jeune que d’aimer toujours !... L’humanité n’est pas un vain mot. Notre vie est faite d’amour, et ne plus aimer c’est ne plus vivre."
(I have never ceased to be young, if being young is always loving... Humanity is not a vain word. Our life is made of love, and to love no longer is to live no longer.)”
― George Sand, The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

“I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.”
― George Sand, George Sand: A Biography

“God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.”
― George Sand, La Petite Fadette

“In times when evil comes because men misunderstand and hate one another, it is the mission of the artist to praise sweetness, confidence, and friendship, and so to remind men, hardened or discouraged, that pure morals, tender sentiments, and primitive justice still exist, or at least can exist, in this world.”
― George Sand, La Petite Fadette

“I'm not full of virtues and noble qualities. I love, but I love strongly, exclusive, stedfasty.”
― George Sand

“Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.”
― George Sand, Letters of George Sand

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”
― George Sand

“Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl

“I usually wouldn't be this close to you without a tetnus shot.”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, The Complete Gossip Girl Series

“I don't eat chicken abortions!”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl

“No matter the truth, people see what they want to see..”
― Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl

“And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...You know you love me.
XOXO,
Gossip Girl”
― Cecily von Ziegesar

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation

“Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”
― Leo Buscaglia

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.”
― Cherie Carter-Scott

“Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello