Mina Stowe > Mina's Quotes

“Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.

To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.

To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.”
― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels

“Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”
― Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist

“Why do I read?
I just can't help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh
and to be motivated.
I read to understand things I've never
been exposed to.
I read when I'm crabby, when I've just
said monumentally dumb things to the
people I love.
I read for strength to help me when I
feel broken, discouraged, and afraid.
I read when I'm angry at the whole
world.
I read when everything is going right.
I read to find hope.
I read because I'm made up not just of
skin and bones, of sights, feelings,
and a deep need for chocolate, but I'm
also made up of words.
Words describe my thoughts and what's
hidden in my heart.
Words are alive--when I've found a
story that I love, I read it again and
again, like playing a favorite song
over and over.
Reading isn't passive--I enter the
story with the characters, breathe
their air, feel their frustrations,
scream at them to stop when they're
about to do something stupid, cry with
them, laugh with them.
Reading for me, is spending time with a
friend.
A book is a friend.
You can never have too many.”
― Gary Paulsen, Shelf Life: Stories by the Book

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
― Jim Morrison

“Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.”
― Sigmund Freud

“Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail...”
― Sophie Kinsella

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.”
― Eve Ensler, I Am an Emotional Creature

“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”
― William Feather

“Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.”
― Mike Norton, Fighting For Redemption

“I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.”
― Douglas Coupland

“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
― Rudyard Kipling

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.”
― Minton Sparks

“One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.”
― Angela Lam Turpin

“No matter where you go, there you are.”
― Keith Caserta

“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
― Maya Angelou

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow