Michelle Rascon > Michelle's Quotes

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
― Maya Angelou

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
― Lucille Ball

“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.”
― William Shakespeare

“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Then I’ll break into your apartment and move everything three inches to the left and fuck with your flow, okay?”
― Alexandria Bellefleur, Written in the Stars

“Memory works that way—like seeing forward and backward at the same time.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”
― Lucille Ball

“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
― Lucille Ball

“You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience. Keep your head up, keep your shoulders back, keep your self-respect, be nice, be smart. And remember that there are practically no "overnight" successes.”
― Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy

“I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others.”
― Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy

“I never wrote things down to remember;
I always wrote things down so I could forget.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“They are not trying to win arguments of right or wrong. They are trying to understand each other.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“There’s a difference between art and self-expression. All art is self-expression. All self-expression is not art.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“we don’t live longer when we try not to die, we live longer when we’re too busy livin.”
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

“This big ol' world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.”
― Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Murder your darlings.”
― Arthur Quiller-Couch

“As I run, hot tears of shame are streaming down my face. Since my accident, I've heard a lot about the person I used to be. Never did I imagine this.

I sprint harder, accelerating onto the sidewalk, outpacing even the most intense drills from practice. It's no problem escaping Aaron and Bear.

But I'll never be able to get away from myself.”
― Gordon Korman, Restart

“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

“it's the proper morning to fly into Hell.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“Are we going after it, Boss?” “After it? Are you nuts? What if we caught it?” “I love it when you break out in common sense.”
― Steven Brust, Vallista

“Being rich means making everything inconvenient. Remember to attribute that when you quote it. T-A-L-T-O-S.”
― Steven Brust, Vallista

“You’re not desperate until you’ve opened all the doors. T-A-L-T-O-S.”
― Steven Brust, Vallista

“Somewhere a little girl is trapped in time, and I'm trying to set her free.”
― Steven Brust, Vallista