Life Quotes

Slight persistent effort can move you successfully forward in anything you do.

Kelli Wilson

Faith in the possibilities of continued and rigorous inquiry does not limit access to truth to any channel or scheme of things. It does not first say that truth is universal and then add there is but one road to it.

John Dewey

Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume ...

Marcel Proust

He said it with everything he did, every touch, every caress, every physical pleasure he bestowed upon me. Give it all to me. Give me your will.

Kitty Thomas

the problem with reading off a screen isn’t resolution, eyestrain, or compatibility with reading in the bathtub: it’s that computers are seductive, they tempt us to do other things, making concentrating on a long-form work impractical.

Cory Doctorow

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

Suzanne Collins

I thought he wanted it, anyway," I say. "Not like this," Haymitch says. "He wanted it to be real.

Suzanne Collins

We guess as we read, we create; everything starts from an initial error; those that follow (and this applies not only to the reading of letters and telegrams, not only to all reading), extraordinary as they may appear to a person who has not begun at...

Marcel Proust

‎I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.

Suzanne Collins

It is feeling and not reasoning that drives one to prayer.' -Emma to Charles

Deborah Heiligman

My nightmares are usually about losing you. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Suzanne Collins

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

Sarah Orne Jewett

It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,” he says. “I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Suzanne Collins

Most people think that once they lose the weight or make more money they will finally feel good about them themselves, but they are usually disappointed when they get there to find they don’t feel better. This happens because real self-worth can’...

Kimberly Giles

If you spend your energy condemning and judging the people who mistreat you it puts you in a condemning and judging mindset, which subconsciously makes you feel condemned and judged too. The more judgmental you are, the worse your self-esteem will be...

Kimberly Giles

No one can repair your self-esteem for you. Your spouse cannot fix it. Your parents cannot fix it. Your boss cannot fix it. No amount of success or beauty enhancements can fix it. You have to fix it by changing the way you see yourself. You have to c...

Kimberly Giles

I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.

Jorge Luis Borges

Male or female, what did it matter, really, when the body yearned?

Dean Koontz

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

W.B. Yeats

Mothers,lock up your daughters, then lock up your maidservants, then lock up yourselves. Lord Montgomery is on the prowl

Cassandra Clare

Let's face it. My career is now professional vampire.

Cassandra Clare