Ben Oliveira > Ben's Quotes

“Two parts of me have been at war. Your... odd family, your financial troubles- your in a different world from me. people expect me to travel in certain circles. And I do respect the wishes of my family, but not today. I've tried to fight it for months now, but Lizzie Bennet... I'm in love with you.”
― Bernie Su, The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet

“You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you’re doing, where you are, who you’re with, and if you’re OK. You need someone who can help you reach your dreams and protect you from your fears. You need someone who will treat you with respect, love every part of you, especially your flaws. You should be with someone who could make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Today I love you more than ever; tomorrow I will love you even more. I need you more than ever; I want you more than ever.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“I’ve learned that home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“Breath is the king of mind.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Yoga

“Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“Nothing can be forced, receptivity is everything.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“One's spiritual realization lies in none other than how one walks among and interacts with one's fellow beings.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“Yoga allows you to rediscover a sense of wholeness in your life, where you do not feel like you are constantly trying to fit broken pieces together.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“Action is movement with intelligence. The world is filled with movement. What the world needs is more conscious movement, more action.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“You always had me. I always had you.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“Aim for something Rosie, I know you don’t want to hear it, but it will
help. Aim for what you want and the year will all make sense. Go to Boston
if that will make you happy. Study hotel management like you’ve always
wanted.
You’re only young Rosie, and I know that you absolutely hate to hear
that but it’s true. What seems tragic now won’t even be an issue in a few
love, rosie 29
years time. You’re only 17. You and Alex have the rest of your lives to catch
up together . . . After all, soul mates always end up together. Silly Bethany
won’t even be remembered in a few years time. Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten.
Best friends stay with you forever.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie

“After all, soulmates always end up together. Silly Bethany won't even be remembered then. Ex-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Where Rainbows End

“You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Where Rainbows End

“Note to self:
Do not under any circumstances fall in love again.”
― Cecelia Ahern, Where Rainbows End

“You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!”
― David Nicholls, One Day

“We all go a little mad sometimes.”
― Robert Bloch, Psycho