Alyanna Villanueva

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898 quotes curated by Alyanna Villanueva:

“I am stupid. And kind. Which makes the biggest idiot in the world.”
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Tagged: self awareness
“Be wary around your enemy once, and your friend a thousand times. A double crossing friend knows more about what harms you.”
— Arabic Proverb, Arabic Proverb
Tagged: Be Weary, Friends Hurt You, Friends Can Cause Pain
“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, Truth, and Being Free
Tagged: Compassion, Pain
“To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.”
— Jean Piaget, Genetic Epistemology
Tagged: Knowledge, expression
“I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to me to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Tagged: Self-Love
“Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful you are.”
— Chief Red Eagle, Untitled
Tagged: character, Power
“Sometimes it’s better not to look back.”
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Tagged: Moving On
“I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here.”
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
Tagged: Life, motivation
“I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.”
— Michael Kors, Interview Magazine
Tagged: Time, Luxury
“You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can’t fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you’ve got to be straight up with you.”
— Whitney Houston,
Tagged: Authenticity