Kimmi Boyce > Kimmi's Quotes

“As soon as something stops being fun, I think it’s time to move on. Life is too short to be unhappy. Waking up stressed and miserable is not a good way to live.”
― Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life

“never just try to make money. Long-term success will never come if profit is the only aim.”
― Richard Branson, Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons In Life

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”
― George Washington, Rules of Civiility and Other Writings & Speeches

“Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”
― George Washington

“I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.”
― George Washington

“To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country.”
― George Washington

“Life does often get in the way of one's reading.”
― Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

“You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“Nothing, I suspect, is more astonishing in any man's life than the discovery that there do exist people very, very like himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“I notice that a man seldom mentions what he had supposed to be his most idiosyncratic sensations without receiving from at least one (often more) of those present the reply, “What! Have you felt that too? I always thought I was the only one.” The book aims at telling the story of my conversion and is not a general autobiography, still less “Confessions” like those of St. Augustine or Rousseau. This means in practice that it gets less like a general autobiography as it goes on.”
― Lewis C. S. (Clive Staples), Surprised by Joy: The shape of my early life

“The body remembers love, as rock remembers the heat and compression that formed it. It waits, buried under the earth, cold and longing, until it is freed. Then that same rock can skim across a river, travel an ocean, be carried across strange lands until it finds its way home.”
― Caroline Lea, The Glass Woman

“She is a woman capable of violence. She is a woman who did what was necessary. She is a woman who has survived.”
― Caroline Lea , The Glass Woman

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim.”
― Homer

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre