Wednesday, December 30, 2015

More quote dumping...

"The most important thing about goals is having one."

From Insurgent (from the Divergent Series)...

"Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty"

"Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind"

From "This is Where I Leave You" by Jonathan Tropper

"The only thing you can ever realy know about anyone is that you don't know anything about them at all"

"Sometimes, contentment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost"

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
"In freedom, most people find sin"

"People always get used to beauty"



"Problems always start long before you really, really see them"- from Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

"There is a sense in which we are all each others consequences" - From All The Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner
Quote Dump 2015 (Cleanin out my phone notes..)

"No Reason to stay is a good reason to go"

"If you're not prepared to look stupid, then nothing great is ever gonna happen"-House season 2

"Follow inner guidance with absolute conviction"

"We don't listen to understand, we listen to respond"

From Allegiant (part of the Divergent Series by Veronica Roth):
"On a normal day, a few hours can contain long stretches of watch-checking, of empty time"
 
"Everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them"

"If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it"

"Maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten"

"Requiring a person to disappear, to fade into the background wherever they go, is no better than encouraging them to punch one another"

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
"The world is divided into the people who imagine their own funerals and the people who don't. Smart and artistic people naturally fall into the former category"

"Dying is easy. Living is hard."

...aaand finally, from "Still Alice" by Lisa Genova:
"Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous, and finish big"