Stuart Turton
- The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Tomorrow can be whatever I want it to be, which means for the first time in decades, I can look forward to it. Instead of being something to fear, it can be a promise I make myself. A chance to be braver or kinder, to make what was wrong right. To be better than I am today. Every day after this one is a gift. I just have to keep walking until I get there.
George Orwell
- Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble. And if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil.
Michelle Obama
- Becoming
Let's invite one another in. Maybe then we can begin to fear less, to make fewer wrong assumptions, to let go of the biases and stereotypes that unnecessarily divide us. Maybe we can better embrace the ways we are the same. It's not about being perfect. It's not about where you get yourself in the end. There's power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. And there's grace in being willing to know and hear others.
John Green
- Turtles All the Way Down
And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And so we assume it isn't real. We refer to it with catch-all terms, like crazy or chronic pain, terms that both ostracize and minimize. The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. And the term crazy arrives at us with none of the terror and worry you live with.
Victor Hugo
- Les Misérables
Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Victor Hugo
- Les Misérables
The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
- The Secret Garden
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done - then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Aldous Huxley
- Brave New World
We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.
Tom Rath
- How Full is Your Bucket?
The lesson here is clear: if you want people to understand that you value their contributions and that they are important, the recognition and praise you provide must have meaning that is specific to each individual.
Upton Sinclair
- The Jungle
One could not stand and watch very long without being philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hogsqueal of the universe... Each of them had an individuality of his own, a will of his own, a hope and a heart's desire; each was full of self-confidence, of self-importance, and a sense of dignity.
Ben Thomas
- Seven Pounds
The first time I ever saw a box jellyfish, I was twelve. Our father took us to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I never forgot what he said... That it was the most deadly creature on earth. To me it was just the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Little House on the Prairie
One morning the whole world was delicately silvered. Every blade of grass was silvery and the path had a thin sheen... When the sun came up, the whole prairie sparkled. Millions of tiny, tiny sparks of color blazed on the grasses.
Ken Kesey
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about me being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.
Charlotte Brontë
- Jane Eyre
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
Ralph Ellison
- Invisible Man
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination. Indeed, everything and anything except me.
Trina Grillo and Stephanie M. WIldman
- Obscuring the Importance of Race
Comparing sexism to racism perpetuates patterns of racial domination by marginalizing and obscuring the different roles that race plays in the lives of people of color and of whites. The comparison minimizes the impact of racism, rendering it an insignificant phenomenon-one of a laundry list of -isms or oppressions that society must suffer.
Hannah Montana
- Nobody's Perfect
Next time you feel like it's just one of those days when you just can't seem to win, if things don't turn out the way you plan, figure something else out! Don't stay down, try again!
Myself
- Office Thoughts
There is a girl that posts quotes on here about how boring her cubicle is. She describes it as insufferable and comes onto this typing site to waste time. I feel like we are soul sisters, because I do the exact same thing. Typing tests make me look like I'm busy and doing work, when I am really just wasting time.
