Owning Life Quotes

“Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story.

'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast'

'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own.”
― Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Gadis Pantai

“Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to the negative where other writers will.”
― Millicent Ashby

“We are all capable of regulating how we think and feel. It just boils down to owning that power.”
― Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments into Your Greatest Blessings

“My future is my own.”
― Rachel Harrison, Cackle

“- Hur fick ni modet att våga lämna indien?
- Frågan är felformulerad. Det är rädsla som får folk att fly, modet är det som driver oss framåt. Får oss tro på ett annat liv. Mod, det är att hoppas.”
― Marc Levy