My Favourite Quotes
"Het verleden is niet achter ons, zoals men denkt, maar voor ons. De schaduw van wat was, werpt zich voor ons: wat dood is, bestaat nog en gaat voor ons uit."
~Henry Bataille~
JK Rowling Quotes
"It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us."
~JK Rowling~
"It matters not what a person is born, but who they choose to be."
~JK Rowling~
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
~JK Rowling~
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
~JK Rowling~
"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
~JK Rowling~
"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution."
~JK Rowling~
"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
~JK Rowling~
"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."
~JK Rowling~
Tolkien Quotes
"All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wander are lost;
the old that is strong does not wither,
deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
a light from the shadows shall spring;
renenwed shall be blade that was broken,
the crownless again shall be king."
~Tolkien~
"It is the job that is never started that takes longest to finish."
~Tolkien~
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
~Tolkien~
"There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone."
~Tolkien~
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
~Tolkien~
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
~Tolkien~
But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten. We hear about those as just went on -- and not all to a good end, mind you; at least not to what folk inside a story and not outside it call a good end.
~Tolkien~
"The world has changed.
I see it in the water.
I feel it in the Earth.
I smell it in the air.
Much that once was is lost,
For none now live who remember it.
~Tolkien~
"He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall."
~Tolkien~
"It's wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope."
~Tolkien~
"All that we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
~Tolkien~
Aaliyah Quotes
"I've always been mysterious. There are times when I don't understand myself...I think I'm a bit of a vampire in real life, and there are times when I just want to be myself."
~Aaliyah~
"Everything is worth it. The hard work, the times when you're tired, the times where you're a bit sad... In the end, it's all worth it because it really makes me happy. There's nothing better than loving what you do."
~Aaliyah~
"I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person."
~Aaliyah~
Various Favourite Quotes
"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul.
And sings the tune
Without the words,
and never stops at all."
~Emily Dickinson~
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."
~Oscar Wilde~
"To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest"
"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
~Paul Sweeney~
"Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
~Oscar Wilde~
"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."
~Andy Rooney~
" To laugh is to risk appearing a fool,
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental
To reach out to another is to risk involvement,
To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self
To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss
To love is to risk not being loved in return,
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk to failure.
But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing is nothing.
He may avoid suffering and sorrow,
But he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live.
Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.
The pessimist complains about the wind;
The optimist expects it to change;
And the realist adjusts the sails."
~ William Arthur Ward ~
"It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others."
~Lewis Carroll~
Friendship quotes
"As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- there were times when we dreamed together, when we laughed and cried together. As I look back on those days, I realize how much I truly miss you and how much I truly love you. The past may be gone forever..and whatever the future holds, our todays make the memories of tomorrow. So, my lifetime friend, it is with all my heart that I send you my love, hoping that you'll always carry my smile with you, for all we have meant to each other and for whatever the future may hold."
"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."
"True friends are those who lift you up when your heart's wings forget how to fly."
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."
"True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die they're never dead in your heart."
"This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life."
"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~
"One of the greatest pleasures in life is friendship, and one of the pleasures of friendship is to have someone in whom to confide a secret"
~Alessandro Manzoni~
"In order to form correct habits, we should seek the company of persons of sound moral and religious influence. We should constantly bear in mind that we may be fitting to inhabit the heavenly courts. The precious hours of probation are granted that we may remove every defect from the character; and we should seek to do this, not only that we may obtain the future life, but that we may be useful here. Young men and women should regard a good character as a capital of more value than gold or silver or stocks. It will be unaffected by panics and failures, and will bring rich returns when earthly possessions shall be swept away."
~Ellen G. White~
Dream - Goals quotes
"All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live."
~ Joseph Epstein ~
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
~William Dement~
"Dream as if you'll live forever, and live as if you'll die tomorrow"
~James Dean~
"Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last once of courage To reach the unreachable star."
"If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream."
~Les Brown~
"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."
~Bernard Edmonds~
"Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way."
~Barbara Bush~
"Most people search high and wide for the keys to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within."
~George Washington Carver~
"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."
~Les Brown~
"If you can dream it, you can do it."
~Walt Disney~
"All of our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
~Walt Disney~
Art Quotes
"Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in."
~Amy Lowell~
"Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do."
~Elizabeth Bowen~
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
~Henry Ward Beecher~
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
~Joseph Chilton Pearce~
"Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God."
~Michele Shea~
"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."
~Orson Welles~
"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun."
~Pablo Picasso~
"Life isn't long enough for love and art."
~W. Somerset Maugham~
Love quotes
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
~Neil Gaiman~
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross~
"May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays."
"Dreams are like stars...you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny."
"Somewhere there is someone that dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile, so when you are lonely remember it�s true, someone somewhere is thinking of you."
"If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand."
"Loving someone that doesn't love you is like reaching for a star. You know you'll never reach it, but you just got to keep trying."
"Will you ever? I don�t think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am.I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star."
~ Erica Jong ~
"'You'll get over it...' It's the clich? that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don't get over it because 'it' is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and on-one elese can fit. Why would I want them to?"
"The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love"
~William Wordsworth~
"Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine."
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~
"There is nothing greater in life than loving another and being loved in return, for loving is the ultimate of experiences."
~Leo F. Buscaglia~
End ~ Death Quotes
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
~Maria Robinson~
"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be".
~John Heywood~
"No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humaneness."
~Hermann Broch~
"Death is simply a shedding of the physical body like the butterfly shedding its cocoon. It is a transition to a higher state of consciousness where you continue to perceive, to understand, to laugh, and to be able to grow."
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross~
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth -- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross~
"You can shed tears that she is gone,
or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,
or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,
or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember her only that she is gone,
or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind,
be empty and turn your back.
Or you can do what she'd want:
smile, open your eyes, love and go on.
~ David Harkins ~
Peace - war quotes
"Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away."
~Robert Fulghum~
"Be the change you want to see in the world."
~Mahatma Gandhi~
"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change."
~Buddha~
"Peace begins with a smile."
~Mother Teresa of Calcutta~
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children . . . Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron."
~Dwight D Eisenhower~
"The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith."
~John Foster Dulles~
Motivation quotes
"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results."
~Anon~
"You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.
Trying to learn from what's behind you and never knowing what's in store
makes each day a constant battle just to stay between the shores.
And I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.
Like a bird upon the wind, these waters are my sky.
I'll never reach my destination if I never try,
So I will sail my vessel 'til the river runs dry.
Too many times we stand aside and let the water slip away.
To what we put off 'til tomorrow has now become today.
So don't you sit upon the shore and say you're satisfied.
Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tides."
~Garth Brooks~
"Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power."
~Blaine Lee~
"I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all."
~Leo Rosten~
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief that there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world's ills -- against misery and ignorance, injustice and violence... Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation... It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man (or a woman) stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he (or she) sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
~Robert Francis Kennedy~