Thought Provoking Quotes

“Why is it that school is still always so much like school?
humour, school,”
― Katie Hall-May, Memories of a Lost Thesaurus

“Kindness is the blossom of strength”
― José Martí, Fatal Friendship: Lucia Jerez

“Real, she is learning, is a slippery thing, not a solid black line but a shape with soft edges, a great deal of gray.”
― v e schwab

“WANDERING IS A GIFT GIVEN ONLY TO THE LOST.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“God's truth? How long do these intolerable moments last for God? A trillionth of a second? The very life of any creature is a quick fading spark in fathomless darkness. That's God's truth.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Og de som ble sett dansende, ble ansett for å være gale av de som ikke hørte musikken.”
― Sigbjørn Mostue, HEX

“There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it seemed to him, as he stood there in front of the window that something vital had been lost over the course of the pervious year, the sense so strong for most of his twenties that his life could be part of some larger thing, part of some movement or vision to which he could give himself up.”
― Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North: A Novel

“Bilbo may be a hobbit," the professor continued, "but we arere all small at some point. And if you want to be a writer, chances are you've also experienced what it's like to be an underdog." pg. 12”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“At first he, whose acting had been so active, found the not-moving strange. His first fencing coach had always talked about stillness in motion, the inner calm within the outward movement. This was the opposite. Motion in stillness. Everything held in the voice.”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“You don't need more, little bear, she'd say. You've got all you need already.

May, he thought, he did. Maybe all he needed was the book.
pg. 76”
― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“A wolf is wearing a collar with a six-foot metal chain. Ten feet away, there is a chicken pen with chickens inside. The wolf manages to kill all the chickens. How?”
― R.P. Jones, Chrysalis

“Our Trials and Triumphs are packed with opportunities that impact eternity"
"When we forget, we wander
When we Recall and rehearse God's Faithfulness in the past, we more clearly discern His goodness in the present.”
― Susie Larson, Closer Than Your Next Breath: Where Is God When You Need Him Most?

“Love costs. It costs bravery. It costs going the distance, as we shall see.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves

“I Thought,
Thought all the time.
Thought about nothing,
But Thought!”
― Amogh Swamy, On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage

“The In-betweens: A Haiku

Amidst hope and grief,
Shrewdness and anger within,
Am I but a thought..?”
― Amogh Swamy, On My Way To Infinity: A Seeker's Poetic Pilgrimage

“Without all the pieces of the puzzle, it's impossible to keep it together.”
― Ann Albert-Rose

“Peace...The idea of peace may seem impossible as a whole but internal peace is different from eternal peace. One can be made a reality for anyone. Finding what’s important to you, doing something you love, or being with the ones you care for brings internal peace of mind. And I’m finally understanding what’s important in life.”
― Daniel Varona

“What eight things never have their fill of what eight things?”
“The ocean, of water from the rivers; the fire, of fuel; the woman, of sexual pleasure; the raja, of dominion; the rich man, of wealth; the learned man, of knowledge; the foolish man, of folly; the tyrant, of oppression.”
― Intizar Husain, Basti

“I was someone who had spent most of her life hanging around with gay men, and now here I was, ashamed of my feelings for a woman. I felt like such a hypocrite. I eventually gave up my ridiculous preconceived notions about what sexual category I fit into and realized that when you love someone, and they love you back, that's all that matters.”
― Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

“Living in the modern world is hard enough without having to worry about the safety of your personal information, but you can no longer make the choice to opt-out of understanding the fundamentals of technology and cybersecurity.”
― Lakeidra Smith, Cyber Curiosity: A Beginner's Guide to Cybersecurity

“Unlike other IT industries like software development, which mainly rely on the proper input from the human and the proper output from the machine, cybersecurity was defined, and is constantly evolving, because humans are curious.”
― Lakeidra Smith, Cyber Curiosity: A Beginner's Guide to Cybersecurity

“The complexity of life means that every single moment and situation and challenge is new, maybe only slightly so, but still worthy of your presence and pliability nonetheless.”
― Shannon Lee, Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

“Trellised towers of primrose and delicate lily,
arousing our senses, like the arabicas of Spring,
false pretenses and guises, in maiden's attire,
strung carelessly on their wood frame, willy nilly.
Sonnet "Trellised Towers”
― Richard Alfred Marschall, Cries in the Wilderness: Volume One

“Trellised towers of Primrose and delicate lily,
arousing our senses, like the arabicas of Spring,
false pretenses and guises, in maiden's attire,
strung carelessly on their wooden frames, willy nilly.
Sonnet "Trellised Towers”
― Richard Alfred Marschall, Cries in the Wilderness: Volume One

“A stretch is the nature of all folktales... a seed of truth mixed in with speculative storytelling.”
― Joseph N. Vaughan, These Yellow Sands: Memories of Manteo

“...what it’s like just before you’re born. Babies can hear their mother’s voices, they get distressed, they feel pain, even in their mother’s stomach. They turn towards the light, like all of us. The womb, though, is the only world they have ever known. They can see all of it, the beginning and the end, and of course, they think there is nothing else. Can’t even conceive of it.

So, being born, being dragged out into the cold, into the searing lights and all the noise, must feel like dying – like their whole world disappearing along with every single thing they ever knew. Maybe dying is like that too; none of us know what’s out there. But we’ve experienced something a little like it already. Being born was the best thing that ever happened to us. The world is bigger and more beautiful than we ever could have imagined and on the other side of it there were people we’d never met who already love us. They’ve been excited. They’ve been waiting.”
― Temi Oh, Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

“Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminiscing about prior positive events.”
― Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

“Nora had to accept that- as she now knew only too well- some truths were just impossible to see”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library