Alyanna Villanueva

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898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“Life has a practice of living you, if you don’t live it.”
— Philip Larkin, Lonesome Larks and the Fabulous Rosina
Tagged: Life
“And then things happen - these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another.”
— John Green, Paper Towns
Tagged: Love, Relationships
“Your time will come. You will face the same evil, and you will defeat it.”
— Arwen, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Tagged: purpose
“I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”
— Mary Oliver, When Death Comes
Tagged: Life
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
— George S. Patton, War As I Knew It
Tagged: humanity, Leadership
“Of course it is happening inside your head…but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
— J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Tagged: Perception, Reality
“Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.”
— Jean Piaget, Genetic Epistemology
Tagged: Reality, Philosophy
“Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.”
— Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel
Tagged: humanity, Perfection
“I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.”
— Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
Tagged: Forever, Reality
“Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.”
— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel
Tagged: Memories