Gabriela > Gabriela's Quotes

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.”
― P.C. Cast

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

“Don't make everyone know about your sadness.”
― John Steinbeck

“No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners. Love fills us with powerful charisma, enabling us to produce new ideas and new projects, even within circumstances that seem to be limited. Love leads us to atone for our errors and clean up the mess when we've made mistakes. Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence. Love leads us to serve, to forgive, and to hope. Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation.”
― Marianne Williamson, The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

“I put you through hell and then I only made it worse, all the mistakes I made trying to get you back.'

'I've forgiven you.'

'Forgive, yes. Understand, yes. Forget, no.”
― Kelley Armstrong, Frostbitten

“I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she'd always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”
― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“ I think people make mistakes, and they're going to dissapoint you, especially the people who love you the most. And if you cant forgive them for not being perfect, youre going to end up alone”
― Anonymus Londiniensis

“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Life passes by in a wink so try to never miss a moment of it.”
― John Steinbeck

“Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.”
― Phyllis Theroux

“We'll start over. But you can't start. Only a baby can start”
― John Steinbeck

“Time is the only critic without ambition.”
― John Steinbeck

“Trouble with mice is you always kill 'em. ”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Time Untime

“She wanted to go over and hug his tears away, but she was too frightened.”
― Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Special Edition

“Intention, good or bad, is not enough.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who has never achieved much.”
― Joan Collins

“You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers...”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America