“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
“If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her—then don’t let her go.”
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.”
“Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beautiful.”
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
“It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
“I may die young, but at least I’ll die smart.”
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.”
“Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything’s possible again. You live in the moment, you die in the moment, you take it all one day at a time.”
“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”