Shivani Chauhan > Shivani's Quotes

“I used to think life was like a book: you turn the first page, and there’s the next,
and as you go on turning page after page, eventually you reach the last one. But
life is nothing like a story in a book. There may be words, and the pages may be
numbered, but there is no plot. There may be an ending, but there is no end.”
― Yu Miri, Tokyo Ueno Station

“Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your
imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings,
photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture,
bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and
shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your
shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your
soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“You have to be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up.
Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else—that’s how you’ll
get ahead.
Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your
problems. Don’t ask a question before you Google it. You’ll either find the
answer or you’ll come up with a better question.
Always be reading. Go to the library. There’s magic in being surrounded by
books. Get lost in the stacks. Read bibliographies. It’s not the book you start
with, it’s the book that book leads you to.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“All the world’s a stage. Creative work is a kind of theater. The stage is your studio, your desk, or your workstation. The costume is your outfit—your painting pants, your business suit, or that funny hat that helps you think. The props are your materials, your tools, and your medium. The script is just plain old time. An hour here, or an hour there—just time measured out for things to happen.”
― Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“We make art because we like art. We’re drawn to certain kinds of work because
we’re inspired by people doing that work.”
― austin kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative

“fresh reading … as if the sap of life ran in
their leaves, and with skies and plants they had the power to alter their shape
and color from season to season”
― Virginia Woolf, Genius and Ink: Virginia Woolf on How to Read

“Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Just as I am writing at the same as I am being read.
Only I do not start with the ending that would justify the beginning as death appears to comment on life because I must record the preceeding events.”
― clarice lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Anyone who lives knows even without knowing that he or she knows. So dear reader,you know more than imagine however much you may deny it.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Things went somehow so good that were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“Things usually work out in the end."
"What if they don't?"
"That just means you haven't come to the end yet.”
― Jeannette Walls, The Glass Castle

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
― Milan Kundera

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
― Milan Kundera

“We live for books.”
― Umberto Eco

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“It felt like the world had divided into two different types of people, those who had felt pain and those who had yet to.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.”
― Natalia Ginzburg

“The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“The single easiest way to find out how you feel about someone. Say goodbye.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them. You are the only custodian of your own integrity, and the assumptions made by those that misunderstand who you are and what you stand for reveal a great deal about them and absolutely nothing about you.”
― Maria Popova

“Greatness is consistency driven by a deep love of the work.”
― Maria Popova

“I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read, and I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man.”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“I missed my older sister, or people I used
to be friends with, or people I hadn't seen in a long time. I cannot stand
mornings because it seems I am always bleakly reminded of long-gone
times, and people I used to know, and their presences feel eerily close, like
the scent of pickled radish that you just can't get rid of.”
― Osamu Dazai

“A face as stiff as a boulder, stiff with boredom—
that’s the face of an adult.
Adults don’t think about the ocean
even when they watch it.
Their minds are full of other things.
It’s very depressing to think
that someday I, too, will be an adult”
― Kim Sagwa, b, Book, and Me

“Take any path and hope
for the best. At least it will lead you out of
the shadows.”
― Ruskin Bond, The Beauty of All My Days: A Memoir [Hardcover] RUSKIN BOND