Words for the Week #33

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”

― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Words for the Week #32

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

― E.E. Cummings

Words for the Week #31

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”

― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Words for the Week #30

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Words for the Week #29

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Words for the Week #28

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”

― Mark Twain

Words for the Week #27

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

― Albert Einstein

Words for the Week #26

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”

― Jack London

Words for the Week #25

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

― George Bernard Shaw

Words for the Week #24

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

Words for the Week #23

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

― C.S. Lewis

Words for the Week #22

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

― Oscar Wilde

Words for the Week #21

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Words for the Week #20

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
—Harper Lee

Words for the Week #19

"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."
― Dale Carnegie

Words for the Week #18

“You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely. You can be the most popular person in school, envied by every girl and wanted by every boy, and still feel completely worthless. The world can be laid at your feet and you can still not know what you want from it.”
― Hannah Harrington, Speechless

Words for the Week #17

“Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

Words for the Week #16

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

Words for the Week #15

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

Words for the Week #14

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone