Two things to know about me:
- I adore the written word (obviously, or we wouldn’t be here together on this blog); and
- I am obsessed with lists; I even write lists for my lists.
So, I decided to put the two together and share some of the quotes I’ve been collecting for a while now. For the record, I have not gone searching for these quotes, I have stumbled upon them randomly (one I received from a friend) and jotted down those in which I find meaning. Some are old, some are new. Some are serious, some are fun. But they all speak to me in their own special way. This is not an exhaustive list (clearly); I will continue to add to it as I discover new words that move me. And if you, dear readers, have any beloved quotes of your own, please pass them along.
Without further ado (these are in no particular order):
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.” ― Robert Frost
“If music be the food of love, play on.” ― William Shakespeare
“War is easier than daughters.” ― Eddard “Ned” Stark, A Game of Thrones (credit obviously goes to author George R.R. Martin)
“Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.” ― Robert Browning
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A friend is someone who reaches for your hand but touches your heart.” ― Kathleen Grove
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky.” ― Kahlil Gibran
“Do not allow your fire to go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.” ― Ayn Rand
“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
“This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime.” ― Robert Kincaid, The Bridges of Madison County
“Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.” ― William Cullen Bryant
“I believe that appreciation is a holy thing—that when we look for what’s best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we’re doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we’re participating in something sacred.” ― Mr. (Fred) Rogers
“If you live to be a hundred, I hope I live to be a hundred minus one day, so that I never have to live a day without you.” ― Winnie the Pooh
“We cannot all do great things on this Earth, but we can all do small things with great love.” ― Mother Teresa
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” ― George R.R. Martin (A Dance With Dragons)
“Someone will always be prettier. Someone will always be smarter. Someone will always be younger. But they will never be you.” ― Freddie Mercury
“Better to have one woman on your side than 10 men.” ― Robert Jordan
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” ― Michel de Montaigne, a philosopher of the French Renaissance
“I don’t have a skull … or bones.” ― Olaf, Frozen
“We need more bridges [in this world] and less walls.” ― Josh Groban
“You are my queen.” ― Luca Manno (I just couldn’t resist adding this little gem from my 3-year-old love nugget!)
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” ― Winston Churchill
“To plant trees is to give body and life to one’s dreams of a better world.” ― Russell Page
“In the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.