Alyanna Villanueva

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898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.”
— Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Tagged: Human Nature, Living
“You could never recognize the kindness in that girl, the depth of her needs, how desperately she wanted to belong.”
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Tagged: kindness, Belonging
“Our emotional suffering is caused by our desire for things to be other than they are. The more we resist the fact of what is happening right now, the more we suffer.”
— Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
Tagged: Suffering, emotions
“Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in.”
— Frederick Sanger, Nobel Banquet Speech
Tagged: enrichment, Contributions, inspiration
“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
Tagged: Literature, Identity
“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
— Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
Tagged: Positivity, Balance
“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”
— Brad Meltzer, Untitled
Tagged: Equality, humanity
“And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.”
— Hanif Kureishi, Intimacy and Midnight All Day
Tagged: Silence, Meaning, kindness
“What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.”
— T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party
Tagged: Memory, Relationships, Identity
“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”
— Thomas Moore, Care Of The Soul- A Guide For Cultivating Depth And Sacredness In Everyday Life
Tagged: Relationship, Openness