Becky > Becky's Quotes

“So I would choose to be with you,
That's if the choice were mine to make,
But you can make decisions too,
And you can have this heart to break”
― Billy Joel

“I must do something or I shall wear my heart away...”
― Charles Dickens

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

“Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
― Charles Dickens

“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.”
― Desiderius Erasmus

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.”
― Victor Hugo

“Courage is grace under pressure.”
― ernest hemingway

“Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?”
― William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.”
― Maya Angelou

“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
― Mary Tyler Moore

“I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.”
― Emily Dickinson

“The lovely flowers
embarrass me.
They make me regret
I am not a bee...”
― Emily Dickinson

“An ear can break a human heart
As quickly as a spear,
We wish the ear had not a heart
So dangerously near.”
― Emily Dickinson

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.”
― Walt Whitman

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play