Some Of My Favorite Quotes ~ Quite Inspirational ~ I Think

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart".

—William Wordsworth

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you".

—Maya Angelou

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen".

"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed".

—Ernest Hemingeay

"This above all: to thine own self be true".

—William Shakespeare

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will".

—Jane Eyre

"If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever".

—Amy Purdy

 "Since you're not out to prove your genius, you can write with honesty. Readers respond to stories told from truth".—Lucie Frost (How The Hell Did I Not Know That?)

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside".

—Mark Twain

"Grief is the price we pay for love".

—Queen Elizabeth II

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved".

—George Macdonald

"a hand, a look and a nice pan. (coup de main, coup d'oeil et belle casserole.)".

—Charles de Leusse

"There is no meal so delicious than one seasoned by hunger".

"A variation of the proverb: A variation of the proverb:

"Hunger is the best sauce or seasoning".

—Socrates

"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun". 

"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense".

—Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

 “Life passes. Then comes the depression. That feeling that you’ll never be right again. The fear that these outbreaks will become more familiar, or worse, never go away. You’re so tired from fighting that you start to listen to all the little lies your brain tells you. The ones that say you’re a drain on your family. The ones that say that if you were stronger or better this wouldn’t be happening to you".

—Jenny Lawson (Furiously Happy)

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep saying it".

—Robert Frost

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance".

—Oscar Wilde

"I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it".

—Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina)

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another".

—Charles Dickens