What's your favorite quote or quotes? (citations required)

[Opeyemi Mustapha]

There is one rule above all other for being a man, whatever comes face it on your feet.
Robert Jordan _ the great hunt

[Hannah Thompson 9]

… because in this new baby she had seen her own face, had sensed a brighter, better version of herself and the hope of the realisation of all things she hadn’t known she’d wanted to be.

-How the One Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones

I absolutely love this quote and when I read this book originally I had just become a mother myself. I connected with it on such a deep level, knowing and feeling this exact thing before it was put into words in this book. Overall a very, very good read and I highly recommend it for anyone. 5/5

[Chad Anthony]

You can live a life of hesitation, or you can live a life of inspiration. A life of inspiration requires believing in yourself today more than yesterday. Supporting this belief requires taking on more—the more you dare to do, the more you can do. Rob White, And I Met Margaret, Page 98

[Hamna Iftikhar]

"Of course it is happening inside you head Harry, but why on Earth should that mean it is not real." _Albus Dumbledore;Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

[Kaylyn_Marie]

These are amazing! I grew up watching Winni the Pooh so I understand it being hard to find just one quote. Also, love the Wizard of Oz, I just read Wretched by Emily McIntire and that quote was in the book as well!

“How do you spell 'love'?" - Piglet
"You don't spell it...you feel it." - Pooh”

― A.A. Milne

Winnie the Pooh just has so many good quotes! It's hard to pick just one.

My other favorite is from Wicked (one of my favorite musicals).

“Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them?”

― Glinda Wicked the Musical

[Joseh Njuguna]

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next" - Ben Carson

[Xinbai Tai]

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

This quote reminds me to be mindful of the words I use, leading me to often reflect on my words. I notice that I can apologize to people quickly when I say something harsh unintentionally.

[Nimra Kiran]

"Let me carry through the rest of my misdirected life, the remembrance that I opened my heart to you."

From A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

[The Keeper Jr]

O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you into tribes and nations that you may know one another. Indeed, the most noble of you in the sight of Allah is the most righteous of you!

The Quran 49:13

[Claudia Angelucci]

It is really amazing what people can do. Only they don't know what they can do.
Milton Erickson

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Cicero

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
Giordano Bruno

I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.
Richard Feynman

[Nimra Kiran]

"It often happens that real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style."

-The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.

[Nimra Kiran]

"She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'Why?' And she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.' I asked her why and she said, 'They only let you this happy if they're preparing to take something from you."

Khaled Hosseini,  THE KITE RUNNER.

These are my favourite lines, although there have been many years since I last read this book but these lines are so close to my heart and I believe majority of people can relate to them. Its not about being pessimistic or looking for negatives in everything but I think its the reality of life. Goos things and bad things are happening in a parallel and thats why life is so unpredictable sometimes, you don't know what's gonaa happen next. One moment you're happy and the other its all gone, and vice versa.

[Nimra Kiran]

"You can't stop it. Where there is a great pain, there are only three rules: not to push the pain away, not to try to understand it, and not to indulge in it."

Kerra's lines from,
'Rumi's Daughter' by Mauriel Mafroy.

Dostoyevsky says that pain is inevitable for a broad mind and a deep heart. The thing is: PAIN IS INEVITABLE, no matter what. The more you're intellectual, the more you are prone to sadness. Every individual claims to be in great pain, be it an adult, middle aged or an old person. So, here's the trick: don't push, don't try to understand, don't indulge yourself in things you can't grasp.

As for the poets, Orhan Pamuk says that poetry and happiness can coexist for a brief time, which means that on one hand, pain and sadness have opposing forces towards man, but on the other, that have significant affect also. So, one must learn to wait when the flower blooms!

Moreover, addressig your sadness differs from clinging to it, which blocks your way forward.
Don't push, don't cling; because there's nothing in your hands while you're in pain.

So, just pray & wait

[Anaïs Quesson]

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.

These are the last sentences of The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller.
I find this paragraph very poetic, just as beautiful the whole book is.

[Adair McClain]

"Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that I'd much rather be disliked for being me than to be disliked just because I'm a kender. I can do something about me, you see, but I can't do much about being a kender because my mother was a kender and so was my father and that seems to have a lot to do with me being a kender."

Margaret Weis; Dragons of a Fallen Sun

One of my favorite characters in the Dragonlance books. He always cracks me up.