Eden Silverfox > Eden's Quotes

“If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky.”
― S.E. Hinton

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness, narrow-mindedness, and celebrates love, kindness, open-mindedness, tolerance, curiosity, human intelligence.”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials - The Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass

“If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. ”
― Philip Pullman, Clockwork, or All Wound Up

“The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book - and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction manual or a textbook - in private, unsupervised, un-spied-on, alone. It isn't like a lecture: it's like a conversation. There's a back-and-forthness about it. The book proposes, the reader questions, the book responds, the reader considers. We bring our own preconceptions and expectations, our own intellectual qualities, and our limitations, too, our own previous experiences of reading, our own temperament, our own hopes and fears, our own personality to the encounter.”
― Philip Pullman

“Children are not less intelligent than adults; what they are is less informed.”
― Philip Pullman

“Imagination is a form of seeing”
― Phillip Pullman

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”
― Malcolm X

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.”
― Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.”
― Dorothy Allison

“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“While we may love each other and never stop loving
each other, so often we stop "showing" each
other love.”
― Lisa Nichols

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
― Albert Einstein

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.”
― Gautama Buddha

“With our thoughts we make the world.”
― Buddha

“There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.”
― Buddha

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change. ”
― Buddha

“Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.”
― Gautama Buddha

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
― Sir Francis Bacon

“God has no religion.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“No two people see events the same way.
Everybody's truth is different. This is my truth.

If only there was a world
with no pain...Only love.
If only there was no fear.
If only...”
― Geri Halliwell, If Only

“If it wasn't for good," my mother says, "we human beings would have been wiped out a long time ago. Either the monsters would have gotten us or we would have killed each other off with greed and jealousy and anger. So we have to believe in good. We have to look for the good in ourselves.”
― Joseph Bruchac, The Return of Skeleton Man

“I want to be......A prince......Not a Princess!
I don't want to be protected! When I'm a prince I'll do the protecting!”
― Be-Papas, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Vol. 1: To Till

“Man or woman......It doesn't matter! One of strength......And nobility......Is always a prince.”
― Be-Papas, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Vol. 1: To Till