Jane Christensen > Jane's Quotes

“The days that make us happy make us wise.”
― John Masefield

“To be a baby elephant must be wonderful. Surrounded by a loving family 24 hours a day…. I think it must be how it ought to be, in a perfect world.”
― Daphne Sheldrick

“A story is a story, and one may glean from it what one likes. Good sense need not enter into it.”
― G. Willow Wilson, Alif the Unseen

“Your brain is doing some great work when it's laughing.”
― Jon Scieszka, Funny Business

“A heart filled with anger has no room for love.”
― Joan Lunden, Wake-Up Calls: Making The Most Out Of Every Day

“Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.”
― Charles Frazier, Nightwoods

“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”
― Paul Celan

“The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”
― Alexander Pope, Essay on Man and Other Poems

“To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart”
― Alexander Pope

“All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good.
And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,
One truth is clear, 'Whatever is, is right.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

“Men must be taught as if you taught them not,
And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“Whatever is, is right.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

“chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

“In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;
Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

“All forms that perish other forms supply,
(By turns we catch the vital breath and die)
Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne,
They rise, they break, and to that sea return.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

“No place so scared from such frops is barred
Nor is Paul's Church more safe than Paul's Churchyard
Na fly to alter there they'll talk you dead
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
― Alexander Pope

“For he lives twice who can at once employ,
The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.”
― Alexander Pope

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
― Marie Lu, Legend

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
― Robert Frost

“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
― Isabel Allende