Books. Love. Life.

Quotes From Great Books And People With A Touch Of Romance✨

[philosophybits]

“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

[quotemadness]

What’s the worst thing I’ve stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back.

Chester Bennington

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“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.”

— Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

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I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment—we are all defined by something we can’t change.

Simon Van Booy

[quotemadness]

“I understand. That’s the trouble. I understand. I’ll understand all the time. All day and all night. Especially all night. I’ll understand. You don’t have to worry about that.”

— Ernest Hemingway

[philosophybits]

“The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.”

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

[quotemadness]

“Stop being tormented by everyone else’s reaction to you.”

— Joyce Meyer

[philosophybits]

“Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.”

— Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

[molly-holly]

[quotemadness]

“What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.”

— Jennifer Niven

[quotemadness]

“I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.”

— Warsan Shire

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“The moment you feel like you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment you absolutely and utterly have to walk away.”

— Alyssia Harris

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“Two things to remember in life: Take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take care of your words when you are with people.”

— Zig Ziglar

[quotemadness]

“But that’s the thing about letting someone open you up and play with your heart … They never sew you back up afterwards.”

— Ranata Suzuki

[quotemadness]

“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”

— Rose Kennedy

[philosophybits]

“An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections

[quotemadness]

“All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.”

— Mitch Albom