Quotes that I like

Updated: 16th March 2013 


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"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend" -- Kurt Vonnegut 

"The desire to be human is the end, not the beginning. To want it is to have it. You're not wasting your time Tom. You've already won" -- Hal, in the final episode of Being Human 

"Growing up is what we want it to be. We're grown ups now and it's our turn to decide what that means. Being silly is still allowed; that's not excluded by adulthood. What's excluded by adulthood is thoughtlessness. So be thoughtful and silly" -- Hank Green

"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place. Like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again" -- Azar Nafisi



" 'Everything is in reach.' ...'Even the moon?'...'We've already been there!' " - Twitter


"Some people are bookmarks, others are chapters. Rarely any make it through your whole book"  - Twitter


"Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it"  - Sweedish Proverb


"You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found"  - Twitter


"Keep Calm and Carry On"


"Write all your fears down on a piece of paper. Now fold it into a pirate hat and put it on your head. There, now you're a pirate. NO FEAR!" -  Yoko Ono


"Dolce Far Niente: The sweetness of doing nothing" - Eat, Pray, Love


"Ruin is the road to transformation"  - Eat, Pray, Love


"Sometimes I wish the world would stop turning so I could find my feet. But as it won't I just need to remember that I can't fall off" -  Lexie Bellafonte


"To clear the bullcrap from your mind you must first flush the toilet" - My Brother (10/4/2011)


"Human beings are made to hug" - My Brother

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career, I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over in my life. And that's why I succeed" - Michael Jordan (via Frustrated Medic)

"When the mind is like a hall in which thought is like a voice speaking, the voice is always that of someone else" -- Wallace Stevens