Quotes

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” – Sigmund Freud

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them forever.” – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.” – Carolyn Kenmore

“How we spend days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” – Annie Dillard

“The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into actions.” – Germaine De Stael

“Love is like the sea. It’s a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.” – Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“We don’t get to choose our own hearts. we can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.” – Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.” – Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are.” – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” – James Baldwin