Jes Jones > Jes's Quotes

“Clear perception requires emotional distance. It's hard to be wise while you're still squirming.”
― Garry Lee Wright, Happiness for Beginners

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“As a young person, I feel it necessary to show the great nation that we live in that there doesn't need to be this kind of violence and hatred in our world. And that loving one another doesn't mean that we have to compromise our beliefs; it simply means that we choose to be compassionate and respectful of others.”
― Judy Shepard, The Meaning of Matthew: My Son's Murder in Laramie, and a World Transformed

“Accentuate the positive - eliminate the negative. And only the negative.”
― John Case

“To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.”
― Elin Hilderbrand, A Summer Affair

“Observation: Standing in line is a form of oppression.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
― James Baldwin

“Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying. ”
― Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland

“Pain can give you sight or make you blind.”
― Francesca Lia Block

“There is a little good in all evil.”
― Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows

“I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“Because failure isn't an option if success is just a matter of more effort.”
― W. Bruce Cameron, A Dog's Purpose

“The 'what' of life is immediate, but the 'why' trails along at its own pace.”
― Garry Lee Wright, Happiness for Beginners

“Life is a binary system. Things work out or they don't, worry doesn't add much, and the only way to influence the process is simply not giving up.”
― Garry Lee Wright, Happiness for Beginners

“You never know what you really believe until you have to defend it.”
― Garry Lee Wright, Happiness for Beginners

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“If you live life ruled by your fears, you're not really living.”
― Beth Ciotta, Fool for Love

“It often has been said that unforgiveness is like you drinking poison but expecting the other person to die.”
― Nancy Alcorn, Cut: Mercy for Self-Harm

“In marriage, we may learn to check our words, and to submerge those feelings and actions which will inevitably lead to strife, but we remain essentially the same.”
― Gaynor Arnold, Girl in a Blue Dress

“It's not a good thing to live with hatred, especially when it is born of ignorance.”
― Gaynor Arnold, Girl in a Blue Dress

“I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.”
― Libba Bray , A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Forewarned is forearmed...”
― Samuel Shellabarger, Prince of Foxes

“People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“The hand you hold the longest is your own.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Quick answers often lead to quick regrets.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing