Laura > Laura's Quotes

“Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?”
― Juliet Marillier, Son of the Shadows

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
― Howard Thurman

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
― Emma Lazarus

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”
― maya angelou

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
― Maya Angelou

“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.”
― Maya Angelou

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“i am a museum full of art
but you had your eyes shut”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“Our backs tell stories
no books have the spine to carry”
― Rupi Kaur

“your art
is not about how many people
like your work
your art
is about
if your heart likes your work
if your soul likes your work
it's about how honest
you are with yourself
and you
must never
trade honesty
for relatability”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it
- there is nothing purer than that”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“your body
is a museum
of natural disasters
can you grasp how
stunning that is”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“I will no longer
compare my path to others

-I refuse to do a disservice to my life”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“we all move forward when
we recognize how resilient
and striking the women
around us are”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“And in despair I bowed my head;
"There is no peace on earth," I said;
"For hate is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep!
The Wrong shall fail,
the Right prevail,
With peace on earth, good-will to men!”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”
― Longfellow

“There are things of which I may not speak;
There are dreams that cannot die;
There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak,
And bring a pallor into the cheek,
And a mist before the eye.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.”
― Virginia Woolf

“I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. ”
― Virginia Woolf

“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats

“When You Are Old"


WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.”
― W.B. Yeats

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
― William Butler Yeats

“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.”
― W.B. Yeats

“My wretched dragon is perplexed.”
― William Butler Yeats