Quotes about thing
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“If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

Disappointment, Way, Learning

“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

Reading, Personality

“You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.”

Jodi Picoult book The Pact

Variant: The mind is a remarcable thing. Just because you can’t see the wound doesn’t mean it isn’t hurting
Source: The Pact

Time, Hurt

“Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

People, Tear

“Adulthood can do the most horrific things to the best of people.”

Neal Shusterman book Everwild

Source: Everwild

People, Adulthood

“The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Life, Wise, Life

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”

Philip Pullman (1946) English author

World

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Sadness, Forgetting, Sad, Heartbreaking

“The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Source: J is for Judgment

Life, Death, Change

“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written.

(, 8 September 1935)”

Dorothy L. Sayers (1893–1957) English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian writer

Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

Books

“Please don't judge me too much until you are older and know more things. (Spoken from mother to daughter)”

Ann Brashares book 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

Source: 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows

Daughters

“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

God

“Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.”

Jonathan Maberry book Dust & Decay

Source: Dust & Decay

People, Feeling, Help, Hurt

“I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

Love, People, Learning, Time

“Three things never trust in-
The maiden sworn as pure,
The vows a king has given,
And an ambush that is sure.”

Mercedes Lackey book By the Sword

Source: By the Sword

“Many strange things happen in this world”

Johanna Spyri book Heidi

Source: Heidi

World

“It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.”

Ann Beattie (1947) Short story writer, novelist, professor

Source: Walks with Men

People, Communication, Understanding

“We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to tbe true in the moment.”

Byron Katie (1942) American spiritual writer

Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life

People

“Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)

Heart

“It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.”

Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road

Source: 84, Charing Cross Road

Reading

“I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth."

"And which do you love best?"

"The dream.”

Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) Norwegian novelist and Nobel Prize recipient

Source: Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn's Papers

Love, Dreams

“Once in a while, life gives you a chance to measure your worth. Sometimes you're called upon to make a split-second decision to do the right thing, defining which way your life will go. These are the decisions that make you who you are.”

Perry Moore (1971–2011) Executive producer of the Narnia films and author of award-winning LGBTQ young adult novel Hero

Life, Way, Decision, Chance

“It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Feeling, Thinking, Forgetting

“There is no such thing as "Just a cat.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Cats

“But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.”

Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest

Source: Daughter of the Forest

World, Way, Light, Evil

“No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.”

Hugh Nibley (1910–2005) Religious scholar

Knowledge

“the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: the courage it took to get out of bed each
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.
Source: You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

Courage, Courageous

“I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Jeremy Marsh, Chapter 7, p. 113
Variant: I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you've known forever don't see things the way you do. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on. It's perfectly normal.
Source: 2000s, True Believer (2005)

People, Way, Memory

“Why was the blind guy playing with matches, you ask? Because he's good at it. Anything to do with fire, igniting things, exploding things, things with fuses, wicks, accelerants… Iggy's your man. It's one of those good/bad things.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Maximum Ride The Angel Experiment

Guy

“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

War

“Love can make even nice people do awful things.”

Jude Deveraux (1947) American writer

Love, People

“The kiss that was pressed against his own mouth was reverent, the contact no heavier than the warm, still air in the room. It was the consummate lover’s kiss, the kind of thing he had wanted even more than the hot sex they’d just had.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Sex, Lovers, Kiss

“To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same things as drowning in it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.”

James Baldwin book The Fire Next Time

Variant: To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.
Source: The Fire Next Time

Life, History, Past, Season

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the patience not to strangle my mother-in-law, chop her into little pieces, and dump them down a sewer.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Source: Little Earthquakes

God, Law, Courage, Change

“There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.”

Peter Benchley book Jaws

Source: Jaws

Fear, Fish, Sea

“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Variant: It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

Art

“Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you.”

James Frey book A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

World, Way, Joy

“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”

Dean Koontz book Fear Nothing

Source: Fear Nothing

Life, World, Hope, Friendship

“We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.”

Douglas Coupland book Life After God

Source: Life After God

Way, Soul, Change, Time

“Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.”

Ann Brashares book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

“This problem - it is age old. To do what is right and save the day without destroying the very thing the day is lived for.”

Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden

Source: Black Blood

Age, Problem

“There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.”

Waylon Jennings (1937–2002) American country music singer, songwriter, and musician

Way

“There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.”

John Grogan (1958) American journalist

Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

Dogs

“You say one more thing that sounds like it's ripped from the pages of a really bad gothic romance and I'm out of here, are we clear?" - Valkyrie Cain”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Death Bringer

“She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him."
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to be with you.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“The beauty of things must be that they end.”

Jack Kerouac book Tristessa

Source: Tristessa

Beauty

“Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors and love adventure, risk, and uncertainty.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960) Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, statistician, former trader and risk analyst

Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

Love

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

As quoted in The Ring of Truth (2004) by Joseph O'Day

People, World, Hope, Motivational

“Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Life, Law

“She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.”

Edith Wharton book Ethan Frome

Source: Ethan Frome

“Sometimes it is necessary
To reteach a thing its loveliness”

Galway Kinnell (1927–2014) Poet

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Source: Meditations

“If we don't want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we're stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions, by what we do.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

My Point... And I Do Have One. New York: Bantam Books, 1995

Appearance

“you will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.”

Henry Drummond (1851–1897) Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer

Variant: You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Love, Life, Wedding

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Wolves are disciplined not only when they hunt but also when they travel, when they play, and when they eat. Nature doesn't view discipline as a negative thing. Discipline is DNA. Discipline is survival.”

Cesar Millan (1969) Mexican - American dog trainer and television personality

Source: Cesar's Way: The Natural, Everyday Guide to Understanding and Correcting Common Dog Problems

Travel, Nature

“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

People, Understanding

“Did you hear? You are free."
Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

“All truths wait in all things,
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch)…”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Truth, Waiting

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

Personality, Life

“The only
thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself.
My work done my way.
A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the
only way I function. That’s all I am.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Way, Motivation, Personality, Selfishness

“Everyone has his or her own way of learning things. His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.”

Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist

Source: The Alchemist

Way, Search, Learning

“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

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A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

Source: If I May

Business, Thinking

“First, you start carrying a man satchel. Next thing you know, you're running around in a bathrobe and pink bunny slippers, chasing chickens with a weed whacker.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can”

Louisa May Alcott book Rose in Bloom

Source: Rose in Bloom

Love, Books, Soul, Reading

“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

"A Kind Word", in DNRC Newsletter #9 (December 1995) http://web.archive.org/web/19970412134441/www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/newsletter/html/newsletter09.html

“The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.”

Jodi Picoult book Keeping Faith

Source: Keeping Faith