Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lloyd Alexander

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

Mao Zedong

Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To could not defeat a tiny worm. A thousand villages collapsed, were choked with weeds, men were lost arrows. Ghosts sang in the doorway of a few desolate houses. Yet now in a day we leap around the earth or explore a thousand Milky Ways. And if the cowherd who lives on a star asks about the god of plagues, tell him, happy or sad, the god is gone, washed away in the waters. July 1, 1958

Madeleine M. Kunin

One is responsible for one's own life. Passivity provides no protection.

Madeleine L'Engle

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

Madeleine L'Engle

Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.

Madeleine L'Engle

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Madeleine L'Engle

I do not know everything; still many things I understand.

Madeleine L'Engle

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Madeleine L'Engle

life is the greatest gift that could ever be conceived ... A daffodil pushing up through the dark earth to the spring, knowing somehow deep in its roots that spring and light and sunshine will come, has more courage and more knowledge of the value of life than any human being I've met.

Madeleine L'Engle

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Lynne Reid Banks

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.

Lytton Strachey

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

Lucy Powell

When the heart stops for one beat it is desire, when it stops for one life time it is love

Lucy Hale

Life is about becoming a better version of yourself.

Lucy Larcom

These blossoms, gathered in familiar paths, With dear companions now passed out of sight, Shall not be laid upon their graves. They live, Since love is deathless. Pleasure now nor pride Is theirs in mortal wise, but hallowing thoughts Will meet the offering, of so little worth, Wanting the benison death has made divine.

Lucy Larcom

It is a conquest when we can lift ourselves above the annoyances of circumstances over which we have no control; but it is a greater victory when we can make those circumstances our helpers,--when we can appreciate the good there is in them. It has often seemed to me as if Life stood beside me, looking me in the face, and saying, "Child, you must learn to like me in the form in which you see me, before I can offer myself to you in any other aspect.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It was three o'clock in the morning – the wisest and most accursed hour of the clock. But sometimes it sets us free.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is never quite safe to think we have done with life. When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

Louise Bogan

It is not possible, for a poet, writing in any language, to protect himself from the tragic elements in human life.... [ellipsis in source] Illness, old age, and death--subjects as ancient as humanity--these are the subjects that the poet must speak of very nearly from the first moment that he begins to speak.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

In the end, as you get older and older, your life is your life, and you are alone with it.

Louisa May Alcott

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it…

Louisa May Alcott

Conceit spoils the finest genius.

Louisa May Alcott

There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.

Louisa May Alcott

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

Louisa May Alcott

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

Louisa May Alcott

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

John Green

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

John Green

Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not.

John Green

You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.