Erica Hiser > Erica's Quotes

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“Tears

I struggle with myself to keep them inside
The feelings that I have tried to deny.

I tell everyone that I am okay
When I battle to make it through each day.

In my world of illusions where everything was right
I cried myself to sleep each night.

You notice the tears filling my eyes
As I begin to shed my shallow disguise.

My pain, confusion and a few of my fears
Drop to the ground in the form of my tears.

It feels so good to release the emotions built up
To say what I feel instead of bottling them up.

As I cry a weight seems to lift from me
I feel so much better now that you can see.

And now that you know what it is that I feel
Will you fight the battle with me and
help my wounds heal?”
― Arianna Johnson

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“As he stands a breath away
and takes me here tonight
my raging storm inside grows silent
and all the world is right”
― Annalise Grey, Ramblings of a Tired Mind: Poems

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
― Buddha

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
― A.A. Milne

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.”
― Helen Keller

“It is the mind that makes the body.”
― Sojourner Truth

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”
― James Thurber

“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

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

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi, All Men Are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”
― Aristotle

“People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be - not what you nag them to be.”
― Scudder N. Parker

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“As obident as dogs and as stupid as water buffalo.”
― Lisa See

“The best solution for little problems is to help people with big problems.”
― Rabbi Kalman Packouz

“I’m reminded of the old saying that diseases go in through the mouth, disasters come out of the mouth, meaning that words can be like bombs themselves.”
― Lisa See

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
― Winston S. Churchill