Quotes - Nora (Washington, DC) Showing 1-30 of 32

#1

“In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: closure, gratefulness, life, wisdom

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#2

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy

42022 likes

#3

“There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

4087 likes

#4

“This isn't me missing you. This is me missing the me I used to be.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

285 likes

#6

“You are the best parts of all the songs I love.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

116 likes

#7

“Every time they cut you, I bleed.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

57 likes

#8

“The bad news is, people are crueler, meaner and more evil than you’ve ever imagined. The good news is, people are kinder, gentler and more loving than you’ve ever dreamed.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

52 likes

#9

“As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.”
― John Mark Green

tags: empowering-quotes, healthy-relationships, life-quotes, positive-quotes, toxic-people

31 likes

#10

“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”
― Joyce Carol Oates

tags: good-and-evil, philosophy, truth

145 likes

#11

“In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

tags: inspirational, stress

529 likes

#12

“I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.”
― Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember

359 likes

#13

“The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.”
― Fred Rogers

103 likes

#14

“Don't you worry about me. I'll always come out on top.”
― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking

80 likes

#15

“He's the strongest man in the world.'

'Man, yes,' said Pippi, 'but I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that.”
― Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking

tags: strength

73 likes

#16

“I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

tags: humor

5068 likes

#17

“Four legs good, two legs bad.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: animals, four, humans, legs, two

861 likes

#18

“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

tags: life, philosophy, satire, wisdom

192 likes

#19

“The sad truth is the truth is sad.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Hostile Hospital

2474 likes

#20

“The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.”
― Lemony Snicket

1930 likes

#21

“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: truth, understanding

1739 likes

#22

“Sometimes words are not enough.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

737 likes

#23

“People don't always get what they deserve in this world.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

tags: deserve, injustice

792 likes

#24

“All the habits of Man are evil.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

13 likes

#25

“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep

9531 likes

#26

“You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.”
― Ernest Hemingway

652 likes

#27

“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

711 likes

#28

“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

3952 likes

#29

“Human sympathy has its limits.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: books, f-scott-fitzgerald, quotes-to-define-my-life, the-great-gatsby

194 likes

#30

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin

8940 likes

#31

“I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: classic-insult, funeral, funny, humor

7633 likes

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