Tina > Tina's Quotes

“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

“This is about the world being a much more frightening place to live in tomorrow if we don’t do something today. And every generation after us will have to pay the price. The price of not stopping this while we could.”
― Michael C. Grumley, Catalyst

“Please, God, or whoever’s up there, please just give me enough time to make it right.”
― Jennifer Weiner, Mrs. Everything

“the world doesn’t change in front of your eyes; it changes behind your back.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“The 7 Secrets of Happiness

1. Think positively.
2. Do work you love.
3. Avoid anger.
4. Give generously.
5. Be grateful.
6. Overcome negativity.
7. Develop thick skin.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some are happy, and some are exciting, but if you never turn the page, you will never know what the next chapter has in store for YOU.”
― Anonymous

“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“What we are is so much more than best friends, or boyfriend and girlfriend. We’re two pieces of a whole. She’s the beat of my heart, just as I’m the blood that rushes through her veins. We breathe life into each other.”
― Alex Grayson, Forevermore

“Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.”
― Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

“When I write a book I first have an idea, a blank piece of paper in front of me and I have no idea where it will take me when I start writing. Sometimes I surprise myself where my writing takes me.”
― Stjepan Varesevac Cobets

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
― Mark Twain

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou

“O Divine Master, grant that
I may not so much seek
To be consoled, as to console;
Not so much to be understood as
To understand; not so much to be
Loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned”
― Saint Francis of Assisi

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”
― Pablo Picasso

“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“Never fear what hasn't happened yet, darling girl. You are always strong enough, whatever it may be”
― Verity Bright, Death Down the Aisle

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Success breeds expectation”
― Lesley Thomson, Death of a Mermaid

“You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.”
― M.L Stedman

“Doubt and truth are so close that it's sometimes impossible to tell them apart”
― Ore Agbaje-Williams, The Three of Us

“He sees what I see, but from the other side. A woman in between two selves, undecided as to which she can remain loyal”
― Ore Agbaje-Williams, The Three of Us

“The landscape is unrecognisable to her now; the crumbling outbuildings and copses of trees look dark and furtive, the land between them a silent battleground, where returning soldiers and foreign fighters slip between the cypress trees like ghosts”
― Annabelle Thorpe, The Village Trattoria

“The lottery is the greatest con of all time, kiddo. Proves our government is just like us, tricking people into thinking any dream can come true.”
― Marissa Stapley, Lucky

“Marriages, like dreams, didn't just happen; you had to do some work to get there”
― Faith Hogan, The Guest House by the Sea

“Power doesn't make a man wise.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Rule of Wolves

“Holly Cross isn't about Christmas.. What it's really about is community. It's the people. Christmas is just an excuse. It gives them a purpose to get together, to support each other and create something special that benefits others. It's the people who make Holly Cross, not Christmas”
― Bella Osborne, The Perfect Christmas Village

“Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.”
― Marcus Valerius Martialis

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“No, not 'it'. Fate was a she. Leah and fate were friends. They always had been”
― Kerry Wilkinson, The Night of the Sleepover