Every accepted public quote

“I think people sleepwalk through their lives, and for me, I wanted to embrace everything. And that meant the agonizing pain and the transcendence, and you can't have one without the other.”

“It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.”

“You are not made from your past. You simply exist in this time and only this time. Enjoy the moment. Experience.”

“Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.”

“I talk about my faith. I talk about positive things that I've dealt with that have taught me things, and I talk about negative things that I'm dealing with.”

“I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.”

“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

“To become the best possible you, you must first focus on becoming a better you.”

“So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.”

“Loving you forever can't be wrong. Even though you're not here, can't move on”

“I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it b...”

“Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and readin...”

“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”

“I believe the stars align so souls can find one another. Whether they are meant to be souls in love or souls in life remains to be seen.”

“Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.”

“I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.”

“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was still living, too.”

“Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.”

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their...”

“If there had been a clock in the room, it would have stopped. Occasionally, there are minutes that get extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for t...”

“Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us - public, private, and secret.”

“Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.”

“I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.”

“I saw you and i knew, more or less, now or in far away time you would shape a chapter in my story that i would spend a lifetime trying to forget.”

“I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return.”

“Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem with, it's his people.' And that was my struggle: it's God's people. I f...”

“I bring out the worst in you and you bring out the best in me.”

“What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desi...”

“I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.”

“Rugby gave me a confidence. I was quite shy and relatively timid, but it gave me the confidence to be a little bit more out-going and back myself a bit more.”

“Happiness So early it's still almost dark out. I'm near the window with coffee, and the usual early morning stuff that passes for thought. When I see the boy and his friend walking up the ro...”

“She soared above the ground, and he kept her tethered to the earth. Without him she would be lost among the clouds.”

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”

“Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.”

“I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sight What may not bless my waking eyes.”

“You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.”

“The greatest adventure is to have no fear for the blaze that lies ahead.”

“Being single is definitely better than being with the wrong person”

“In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.”

“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.”

“It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an...”

“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.”

“I can only say what I have lived and experienced. And the majority of people who have been to Makhachkala have come back with different opinions. It's a relaxed city but very lively, like ma...”

“There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.”

“I didn't know of any rappers in Charlotte. Not to sound like I'm bragging, but I brought the music scene alive and shed the proper light on it. I took it to a whole other level when I starte...”

“A smile puts you on the right track. A smile makes the world a beautiful place. When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life.”

“Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to mee...”