No matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide.
– from It Ends With Us book by Colleen Hoover
Category: Quotes
Revolutions are not won by enlisting …
Revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science only a few are competent to practice. It depends on correct organization and, above all, on communications. Then, at the proper moment in history, they strike. Correctly organized and properly timed it is a bloodless coup. Done clumsily or prematurely and the result is civil war, mob violence, purges, terror.
– from The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress book by Robert A. Heinlein
That’s what I love about New …
That’s what I love about New York. You’re never the weirdest person in the room.
– from Book Lovers book by Emily Henry
I think that people who say …
I think that people who say life is all about the choices we make and the roads we go down are full of shit. […] When the fickle finger of fate points at you, all roads lead to the same place, that’s what I think. I may change my mind when I’m older, but I really don’t think so.
– from Later book by Stephen King
Whatever the art or whatever the …
Whatever the art or whatever the craft – and make a note of this before you go! – talent means next to nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything.
– from Perfume book by Patrick Suskind
Grief is a selfish bacteria, it …
Grief is a selfish bacteria, it demands all our attention.
– from My Friends book by Fredrik Backman
Poverty was a soul-crushing thing. A …
Poverty was a soul-crushing thing. A cave that tightened around you, its pinprick of light closing a little more at the end of each desperate, unchanged day.
– from The Four Winds book by Kristin Hannah
When in bed, meditate. Either you …
When in bed, meditate. Either you will have a deep meditation or fall asleep. Victory either way.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
Possessing a creative mind, after all …
Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie for a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble. Give your mind a job to do, or else it will find a job to do, and you might not like the job it invents.
– from Big Magic book by Elizabeth Gilbert
If you loved someone, you loved …
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
– from 1984 book by George Orwell