“Whatever happens next, I'm sure it's going to be a great adventure.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“You're supposed to raise your friends up, not be happy when they fail.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“At the end, you find the beginning.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“I'm a teenager, and we mess up sometimes.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“Sometimes you have to control your own life and to do that you have to put your own needs first.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“You need to take control of your own destiny.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“Being discreet has never been your strong suit.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“Change happens whether you want it to or not. And sometimes, like now, it's for the best.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“You never know what you'll find out about yourself when you stretch outside your comfort zone.”
― Jen Calonita, quote from Paparazzi Princess
“Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast darkness and drawing imperceptibly closer to each other as they go. As our meetings grew more frequent, I felt not so much that I had met someone new as that I had chanced upon a dear old friend.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue...”
― William Faulkner, quote from The Sound and the Fury
“The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already lived to the fullest. What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him?
No, thank you,' he will think. 'Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, quote from Man's Search for Meaning
“You... were created to be loved. So for you to live as if you were unloved is a limitation, not the other way around... Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wing and removing its ability to fly... A bird is not defined by being grounded but by his ability to fly. Remember this, humans are defined not by their limitations, but by the intentions I have for them; not by what they seem to be, but by everything it means to be created in my image. Love is NOT the limitation; love is the flying. I AM love. ”
― William Paul Young, quote from The Shack
“إن أردت أن تحظى بخدمة ممتازة اخدم نفسك بنفسك.”
― José Saramago, quote from Blindness
BookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
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