Quotes from Books

The thing about life is, you don’t have to be perfect to be happy.

You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

But the past is never dead. It's not even past.

We are all made of stardust and stories.

In the end, we all just want to be remembered.

With great power, comes great responsibility.

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.

The only way to stay safe is to be brave.

With great power, comes great responsibility.

It’s okay if you’re a little scared. Just don’t let fear stop you.

The truth is always easier to bear than a lie.

You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.

I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

The secret of happiness is to be grateful for all that you have.

You can’t choose your family, but you can choose your friends.

It’s not easy being a hero, especially when you are a demigod.

The world is a dangerous place, and sometimes you have to fight for what you believe in.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it yet.

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

Life is like a dance. It is not about the steps you take; it is about the rhythm of your heart.

Dancing is a way of expressing what you cannot put into words.

Every dream can become a reality if you are willing to work hard for it.

It’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.

I can't think of a better way to start a new chapter in my life than to tell my story.

We are not what we say, but we are what we do.

It's okay to be sad. It's okay to be angry. It's okay to be quiet.

I stand in the doorway, my heart pounding. I have a voice.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on oneself.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

It is not what we think or feel that makes us who we are, but what we do.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience—or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

The more I see of the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it.

It is not what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

I am very much obliged to you; and I will not forget your kindness.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

To define is to limit.

We all have our time machines. Those that take us back are our memories. Those that carry us forward are our dreams.

The future is but the past projected into a different dimension.

The Time Machine is a wonderful exploration of the consequences of human progress.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago.

You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.

I am a free human being with an independent will.

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I have not told half of what I saw.

The greatest thing is to be able to go wherever you want.

To travel is to live.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must destroy a world.

Orientalism is fundamentally a political doctrine willed into being.

The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity.

The study of the Orient is not just a matter of academic interest; it is a matter of power.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us all.

The greatest story is the story of the choices we make.

And the greatest of these is love.

I’ll be everywhere. Wherever you can look—wherever there’s a fight, so hungry people can eat, I’ll be there.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.