I’m going to go on a brief hiatus while I finish up this semester
I will post some quotes here and there! -Laura
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ~Marlene Dietrich
This is a blog for quotes, namely from books and famous works, meant to make you think, or maybe even smile.
I will post some quotes here and there! -Laura
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
We read to know we are not alone.
For every minute that you are unhappy, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.
A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Animals don’t behave like men,’ he said. ‘If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don’t sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures’ lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.
