I am a big fan of quotes, mainly from books. Here is a couple of them that define my life as a whole spectrum of thoughts and actions.
“The bottom line is that if you are in hell, the only way out is to go through a period of sustained misery. Misery is, of course, much better than hell, but it is painful nonetheless. By refusing to accept the misery that it takes to climb out of hell, you end up falling back into hell repeatedly, only to have to start over and over again.” ― Marsha M. Linehan
“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.” ― John Keats
“I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.” ― John Keats
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ― Anais Nin
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.” ― Roberto Bolano
“One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.” ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire
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“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
-Nietzsche
“Good and innocent, they not the same thing; they don't wear the same face.”
-Pet
-Akwaeke Emezi
"Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time."
- Marie Lu, Legend.
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship” -Little Women
“I am what I am and I’m not ashamed”- Harry Potter
“Life will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead” -Harry Potter
“All we have to do is decide what to do with the life that is given us” -lord of the rings
“Go where you must go, and hope” -Lord of the Rings
“Not all who wander are lost”- Lord of the Rings
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes” -Anne of Green Gables
Sorry this is so long, I narrowed it down as much as possible but it’s still quite long. I’m a huge reader😂
"When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind." -Wonder
"And if you really want to see what people are, all you have to do is look." -Wonder
"Maybe it's easier to forgive others once you've learned how to forgive yourself" -The One and Only Bob
"Humans love it when we get silly. I think they're so weighed down by people problems that sometimes they need to be reminded what happy looks like." -The One and Only Bob
"Sometimes nothing is the worst sound in the world" -The One and Only Bob
“That till I loved, I never lived.”
– Poem 549, Emily Dickinson
“Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all”
-Helen Keller
“Hell is other people” -Jean Paul Satre
"I am what you made me father"
Jude Duran, the Cruel Prince.
My favorite book series ever
“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
This is something I have to remind myself of a lot.
Atticus finch talking about Real Courage It is when you know you’re licked before you begin; but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what… to kill a mockingbird.
“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.”
- Bilbo Lord Of The Rings
This one is from a video game, but I think it fits here decently well.
"I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people who do." -Angus, Night in the Woods