Quotes - Sarah Duurloo (Antwerpen, Belgium) Showing 1-30 of 118

#1

“We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.”
― Joni Mitchell

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#2

“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
― Alan Paton

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#3

“You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O'Nan, The Odds: A Love Story

tags: acceptance, life, love, worth

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#4

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

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#5

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

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#6

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.”
― Rob Reiner

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#7

“Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.”
― Clare Boothe Luce

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#8

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― douglas adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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#9

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

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#10

“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset

5297 likes

#11

“When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.”
― Jenny Joseph, Warning: When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple

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#12

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

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#13

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#15

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

tags: read, reader, reading

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#16

“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

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#17

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

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#18

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend

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#19

“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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#20

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

tags: facts, knowledge

2285 likes

#21

“Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.”
― Norman Mailer

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#22

“In a time of destruction, create something.”
― Maxine Hong Kingston

tags: creation, destruction, hope, life

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#23

“A map says to you.
Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not...
I am the earth in the palm of your hand.”
― Beryl Markham

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#24

“Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”
― Adam Lindsay Gordon

tags: courage, kindness, ye-weary-wayfarer

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#25

“The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.”
― Ava Gardner

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#26

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
― L. Frank Baum

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#27

“Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
― Gustave Flaubert

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#28

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
― Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

tags: life, prime-numbers

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