Kate's Favorite Quotes

Just quotes. Some funny. Some wise. All clean.

[katesfavoritequotes]

to surrender what you are, and live without belief - that's more terrible than dying - more terrible than dying young.

Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson

[katesfavoritequotes]

Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode! Were there no poor homes to which its light would have conducted me!

Jacob Marley, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

[katesfavoritequotes]

“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,” returned the nephew. “Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

[katesfavoritequotes]

"To me, to believe in God is to feel that there is a God, not dead or stuffed, but alive, urging us toward aimer encore [steadfast love] with irresistible force."

-Vincent van Gogh

[katesfavoritequotes]

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

[katesfavoritequotes]

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live"

-Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling

[sundayohsunday]

daily reminder

[katesfavoritequotes]

As we advance in life, it becomes more and more difficult.

But in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

—Vincent van Gogh

[katesfavoritequotes]

We must strive to be more than we are ... It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yields its own rewards.

Data (Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 3 episode 16)

[wordsnquotes]

I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming to remain sane.

Florence Welch (via wordsnquotes)

[fyp-psychology]

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (via squeakowl)

[katesfavoritequotes]

Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies. You remember that, boy. You remember that. Doesn't matter if it's true or not. You see, a man should believe in those things, because those are the things worth believing in.

Hub (Secondhand Lions)

[katesfavoritequotes]

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

Granny Aching (The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett)

[katesfavoritequotes]

Despair is the enemy. Do not let it defeat you.

Zeean (Dragons of Deltora: The Sister of the South by Emily Rodda)

[katesfavoritequotes]

If you trust in yourself… and believe in your dreams… and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

Miss Tick (The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett)

[katesfavoritequotes]

Why haven’t we fixed sick yet? You scientists there— put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

Daniel Handler

[katesfavoritequotes]

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

“The Stolen Child” by W. B. Yeats