Tag: quote

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (via beatricebaudelaires)

If you know yourself, then you’ll not be harmed by what is said about you. Arab Proverb (via lethalmutation)

The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people. Napoleon (via the-sea-in-a-storm)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt, This is my Story (via the-sea-in-a-storm)

Once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. Haruki Murakami (via in-finitus)

I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via bookmania)