Beth > Beth's Quotes

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“MR. BROWNE'S SEPTEMBER PRECEPT:

WHEN GIVEN THE CHOICE BETWEEN BEING
RIGHT OR BEING KIND, CHOOSE KIND.”
― R. J. Palacio, Wonder

“I don’t think you have to do something so big to be brave. And it’s the little things that are harder anyway.”
― Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone

“if you were born with the weakness to fall you were born with the strength to rise”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey

“This too shall pass.”
― Hakim Sanai

“Things are always better in the morning.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i’ve called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you’re born with
is all you have to be proud of
when you have broken mountains with your wit
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
not because i don’t think you’re beautiful
but because i need you to know
you are more than that”
― Rupi Kaur

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

“Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

“No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.”
― Walt Disney Company

“To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“while changing our emotions is quite hard, changing our perspective is actually relatively easy.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy

“Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy if it cannot be remedied?”
― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad."

Anne: "You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens."
[gestures to the setting sun]
Anne Shirley: "Look at that. You couldn't enjoy its loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds.”
― L.M. Montgomery

“All situations are emotionally neutral. We can decide how we feel about any given situation.”
― Noor Hibbert, Just F*cking Do It: Stop Playing Small. Transform Your Life.

“No good sittin' worryin' abou' it," he said. "What's comin' will come, an' we'll meet it when it does.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables