.:. Quotes of the Day .:.

.:. June 3, 2013 .:.

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Book quotes/ Random quotes;

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"Even at the end of the road, read the first sentence, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, endless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road."  

― D.J. MacHale, Pendragon Before The War: Book Two Of The Travelers (Pendragon

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"There's always two ways of looking at things... that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it."  

― D.J. MacHale, The Lost City of Faar

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"Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane"  

― D.J. MacHale, The Never War

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"The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off."  

― Anderson Cooper, Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival

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"Believe you can and you're halfway there." 

― Theodore Roosevelt

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"I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit." 

- President John F. Kennedy

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"Writers are never fully present because they're always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way." 

- Jessica Soffer, author of TOMORROW THERE WILL BE APRICOTS

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"It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime..."  

― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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"When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness."  

― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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"You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it."  

― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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"An enemy of my enemy is my friend" 

- Arabic proverbs

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"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."  

- Beverly Sills

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"I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unerring ease. It begins with your mind, always. One moment you as feeling calm, selfpossessed, happy. Then fear, disguised in the garb of mild-mannered, slips away into your mind like a spy. Doubt meets disbelief and disbelief tries to push it away with little trouble. You become anxious. Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superiour tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low. You feel yourself weakening, wavering. Your anxiety, becomes dread.

Fear next turns fully to your body, which is already aware that something terribly wrong is going on. Already your lungs have flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake. Now your tongue drops dead like an opossum, while your jaw begins to gallop on the spot. Your ears go deaf. Your muscles begin to shiver as if they had malaria and your knees to shake as though they were dancing. Your heart strains too hard, your sphincter relaxeqs too much. and so with the rest of your body. Every part of you, in the manner most suited to it, falls apart. Only your eyes work well. They always pay proper attention to fear.

Quickly you make a rash decision. You dismiss your last allies : hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression has triumphed over you.

The matter is difficult to put into words. For fear, real fear, such as shakes you to your foundation, such as you feel when you are brought face to face with your mortal end, nestles in your memory like gangrene : it seeks to rot everything, even the words which speak of it. So you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear, because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you. "

- Life of Pi

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PS: That last line of the Life of Pi is amongst my favourites. It's rather fascinating, really.