Marah Leticia > Marah's Quotes

“There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.”
― Maya Angelou

“I'll take crazy over stupid any day.”
― Joss Whedon

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?”
― Edward Albee

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

“Assumptions are the termites of relationships.”
― Henry Winkler

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland

“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
― Ved Mehta, All for Love

“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“The clitoris not only applauds when a women flaunts her mastery; it will give a standing ovation. In the multiple orgasm, we see the finest evidence that our lady Klitoris helps those who help themselves. It may take many minutes to reach the first summit, but once there the lusty mountaineer finds wings awaiting her. She does noy need to scramble back to the ground before scaling the next peak, but can glide like a raptor on currents of joy.”
― Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography

“All serious daring starts from within.”
― Eudora Welty, On Writing

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”
― Noah Webster

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

“Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading

“And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.”
― George Gordon Byron

“For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.”
― Halldór Laxness

“It is never too late to be wise.”
― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

“There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.”
― John Boyne

“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.”
― Norman Mailer

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

“I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man.”
― José Rizal, Noli Me Tángere

“Every great love starts with a great story...”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook