Alyanna Villanueva

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898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“I’m not stupid. I know everybody thinks I am. I just don’t like answering their questions.”
— Louis Sachar, Holes
Tagged: Life, Philosophy
“I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching -–they are your family.”
— Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
Tagged: Family, Love
“I get madder and madder on giving back what I feel.”
— Claude Monet, Unknown
Tagged: Art, Passion
“It is quite foolish to hope you will reach your dreams while you are hanging onto people intent on pulling you down”
— Dodinsky, Untitled
Tagged: Success
“Everyone is just walking along concerned with his own problems, his own life, his own worries. And we’re all expecting other people to tune into our own agenda. ‘Look at my worry. Worry with me. Step into my life. Care about my problems. Care about me.”
— Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons
Tagged: Life, selfishness
“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”
— Thomas Browne, Sir Thomas Browne's Christian Morals
Tagged: Worthiness, Growth
“It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.”
— Charles Bukowski, Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays
Tagged: Honesty, Secrets
“I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.”
— Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Tagged: self
“Sometimes it takes the threat of losing something to realize its value.”
— Erik Erikson, Unknown
Tagged: Loss
“He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.”
— Lois Lowry, Messenger
Tagged: Moving On