Grace > Grace's Quotes

“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.”
― Blaise Pascal

“You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“Then next time bring more water, but don’t cry for this time. There should be no room in your life for regret. If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“He felt his inadequacy to the goal he had so recklessly chosen and felt the attraction of the world he had abandoned.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
― William Shakespear, Hamlet

“Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.”
― Samuel Johnson

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”
― John Updike, Self-Consciousness

“You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen to them when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life