The Quote Book

"We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 23:43:11 -0400

““We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.””

- Anthony Marra

"It’s your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:21:40 -0400

““It’s your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.””

- Rumi

"It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 23:49:19 -0400

““It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.””

- L.R.Knost

"I am free and that is why I am lost"

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:39:37 -0400

““I am free and that is why I am lost””

- Franz Kafka

theparisreview: E. L. Konigsburg, author of beloved children’s...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:44:24 -0400

theparisreview:

E. L. Konigsburg, author of beloved children’s titles The View from Saturday, A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver, and, most famously, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, has died, at eighty-three.

Quote from From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:00:16 -0400

“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”

- Cicero

"When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?"

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:00:43 -0400

““When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?””

- Carl Jung

"You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you. You’re already familiar..."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:00:28 -0400

““You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you. You’re already familiar with the latter experience, allowing yourself to be swept along your fears, neuroses, insecurity, for we all have self-destructive tendencies.””

- Paulo Coelho

"In any man who dies, there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight. Not just people die, but..."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:00:24 -0400

““In any man who dies, there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight. Not just people die, but worlds die in them.””

- General Tso

"Conquer yourself rather than the world."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 08:00:22 -0400

““Conquer yourself rather than the world.””

- René Descartes

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:28:38 -0400

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:27:38 -0400

““I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.””

- Elizabeth Berg

"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 09:14:08 -0400

“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”

- Spinoza

"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:17:08 -0400

“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.”

- Saint Augustine

"I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:16:29 -0400

“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen.”

- Walt Whitman

"I ate the day Deliberately, that its tang Might quicken me all into verb, pure verb."

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:17:09 -0400

“I ate the day
Deliberately, that its tang
Might quicken me all into verb, pure verb.”

- Seamus Heaney, ”Oysters”

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to..."

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 17:51:49 -0400

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.”

- Plato

"Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it."

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:25:53 -0400

““Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.””

- Vincent Van Gogh

"Time is what makes good stories."

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:14:06 -0400

““Time is what makes good stories.””

- Barry Hannah

"As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But..."

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:03:53 -0400

““As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn’t mean that we are alone.””

- Hans Fallada