LibrarianCarina’s most loved Quotables

Life is like riding a bicycle; in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.

If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that do not work.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you'd thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you've never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it's as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Not all who wander are lost.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Beauty fades, dumb is forever.

Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.