Emily > Emily's Quotes

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality.”
― Emily Dickinson

“If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.”
― Osho

“There will always be a reason why you meet people. Either you need them to change your life or you’re the one that will change theirs.
- Angel Flonis Harefa”
― Madeline Sheehan

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
― Gary Snyder

“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”
― Yoko Ono

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.”
― John Steinbeck

“I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
― Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Screenplay

“The earth has its music for those who will listen”
― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies

“Sanity is a madness put to good uses.”
― George Santayana , The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”
― George Santayana

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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

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

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.”
― Albert Einstein

“Don't think or judge, just listen.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings