THE QUOTE HAVEN

• “We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don’t wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we’re right to hold on to hope." - John Green on a mining tragedy in Chile. (Submitted by Yu Jie)

 

• Grieve not,

  nor speak of me with tears,

  but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you there

  - Isla Paschal Richardson (Submitted by Yu Jie)

 

• In dream consciousness… we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.
  Pir Vilayat Khan (Submitted by Dinesh Sabapathy)

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• Somehow I know we’ll meet again. Not sure quite where and I don’t know just when. You’re in my heart, so until then it’s time for saying goodbye.
  - The Muppets (Submitted by Tran Wai Hon)

 

• Stephen King wrote, “Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters.”                                     (Submitted by Anonymous)

 

• All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
  - T.E. Lawrence (Submitted by Yu Jie)

 

• We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. - Tom Stoppard (Submitted by Diana T)

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• Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

  - Voltaire (Submitted by R. Xavier)

 

• The night is darkest before the dawn. - Harvey Dent from The Dark Knight (Submitted by Dinesh Sabapathy) 

 

• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. - C.S. Lewis (Submitted by Marcus)

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• The housemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exists for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career. - C.S. Lewis (Submitted by Marcus. Dedicated to his mother)

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• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.         - Maurice Switzer (Submitted by Seren)

 

• We accept the love we think we deserve. - Stephen Chbosky from the Perks of Being a Wallflower (Submitted by Ivy Ni)

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• Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain (Submitted by Ah Pie)

 

• A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. - Jane Austen from Pride and Prejudice (Submitted by Nardin)

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• Curiosity is the lust of the mind - Thomas Hobbes (Submitted by Zhuan Kai)

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• Nothing is impossible, even the word itself says "I'm possible!" - Audrey Hepburn (Submitted by R. Xavier)

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• Every cloud has a silver lining. 塞翁失马，焉知非福,sài wēng shī mǎ, yān zhī fēi fú (Submitted by Estelle)

 

• Catch one’s heart, never be apart. 愿得一人心，白首不相离 yuàn dé yī rén xīn, bái shǒu bù xiāng lí (Submitted by Lynn Ho)

 

• O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?" - From the movie Dead Poets Society (Submitted by Lim Yin Hwee)

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