59 quotes found
“At the bottom of freshly dug holes, I bury my problems alongside the waxen seeds.”
“Life is fleeting, yes, but also eternal; it will always find a way to begin again.”
“No force but love can impel one to step willingly into the shadows so that the other may shine.”
“I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose, and she never finishes the statement. It seems right, that her wo...”
“And it seemed as though for a moment, the world encapsulated them in a giant sigh. As if the world was exhausted by humanityby the bellows of war and bullets, of hateful cries and grieving tears. O...”
“My emotions are invisible, untouchableinvincible evenand their power far outweighs my own. And so it seems unfair that for all the little I can do to them, they can do so much to me.”
“There is power in confronting your fears. In knowing what it is you fear above all, you can prevent it from becoming your reality. There are always choices.”
“This world owes us nothing. Existence is not indebted to us. Humanity lives under this misconception that we deserve lifes blessings, that we deserve happiness. But in truth, life owes us nothing”
“Butterflies are natures tragic heroes. They live most of their lives being completely ordinary. And then, one day, the unexpected happens. They burst from their cocoons in a blaze of colors and bec...”
“I believe in the ability to choose. I believe this life is made up of our choices and their consequences the good and the bad. I do not believe in letting anything up to fate. We are the makers of ...”
“Life is not a matter of choices! Life is handed to you, a couple of cards that have cycled through the grimy hands of hundreds of players before you. There are no aces hidden up your sleeve. There ...”
“That had always been the beauty of the wind. It could only be seen through its actions, its effect on others. A gentle reminder that reality does not only exist in the seeable, the palpable, the un...”
“I cannot detain Love, holding him captive so that he may never break my heart. No more than I can stick Guilt in a pot so that I may boil him until all of my sins are vaporized, rising alongside th...”
“Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second novel in a series, I understood what it meant to befriend a book. The books knew me, far better than ...”
“The stories books tell transcend those of the characters inked upon their pages. A book discloses far more about the person who reads it.”
“That is life, isnt it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-ifs that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have bee...”
“But circumstances change. Small causes lead to large effects. New paths are added. And all anyone can do . . . is choose.”
“A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating from the yellowed pages, but each is at home in its battered state. Their wrinkled pages and disc...”
“In that moment, the moon and the sun shared the sky. For all of eternity, the moon and sun have chased each other around the world. Long into the future, they will continue this chase, merging the ...”
“That is normal...To be afraid. Do not let anyone tell you any different. No one can ever say that what you feel is right or wrong, or pointless or unworthy of your time. That is a truth for you to ...”
“When we stand up for what we believe infor whats rightthere is always a chance that we risk the very things we fight for: our safety, our lives, our freedom. But if we stand down, the risk is defin...”
“The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.”
