A collection of quotes that have inspired, moved, and stayed with me.

  • Quote – Anais Nin

    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

  • Quote – Oscar Wilde

    Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. – Oscar Wilde

  • Quote – Abraham Lincoln

    We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses. – Abraham Lincoln

  • Quote – Stephen King

    You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. – Stephen King

  • Quote – Napoleon Hill

    Don’t wait. The time will never be just right. – Napoleon Hill

  • Quote – Confucius

    The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Confucius

  • Quote – Harriet Stowe

    When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Quote – F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Quote – Salman Rushdie

    I repeat for the last time: to understand me, you’ll have to swallow a world. – Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

  • Quote – James Joyce

    I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day. – James Joyce

  • Quote – Salman Rushdie

    The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame. – Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

  • Quote – Milan Kundera

    The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. – Milan Kundera

  • Quote – Salman Rushdie

    Memory’s truth, because memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else’s version more than his own. – Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

  • Quote – Helen Keller

    Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller

  • Quote – Albert Camus

    Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement. – Albert Camus

  • Quote – Mark Twain

    To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. – Mark Twain

  • Quote – Robert Frost

    Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. – Robert Frost

  • Quote – Robert Frost

    The best way forward is always through. – Robert Frost

  • Quote – Henry David Thoreau

    Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau

  • Quote – Buddha

    You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha