Quotes - Joanna (ilovebutterflies) (The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 414

#1

“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
― Harvey Pekar

tags: life, writing

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#2

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

3489 likes

#3

“People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
― Anne Enright, The Gathering

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#4

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
― Alice Childress

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#5

“are you breathing, are you lucky enough
to be breathing”
― Hettie Jones

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#6

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

2729 likes

#7

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

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#8

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

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#9

“I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#10

“Terror made me cruel . . .”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

tags: ghosts, haunting, supernatural

2063 likes

#11

“Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.”
― William Cullen Bryant

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#12

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
― Oprah Winfrey

tags: experience, inspirational, pain, wisdom, wounds

6852 likes

#13

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

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#14

“A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.”
― N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain

1679 likes

#15

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

tags: freedom, identity, independence, self-awareness, self-discovery

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#16

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

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#17

“You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.”
― Ira Glass

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#18

“Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

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#19

“When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.”
― Leslie Marmon Silko

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#20

“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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#21

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst

165271 likes

#22

“There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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#23

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

49890 likes

#24

“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

tags: 1929, viereck-interview

37579 likes

#25

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

31248 likes

#26

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, imagination

24701 likes

#27

“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

tags: attributed-no-source, children, fairy-tales

25176 likes

#28

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

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#29

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, mistakes

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#30

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein