BEDA Blog #3 - Quotes

I'm not going to lie, I'm a bit of a quote whore. I love quotes. I have tons in little places all over my room that I've printed out and hung or hand written when I didn't have time to print it. The reason I love quotes is because they are little pieces of someones work that have such intense meaning and when you find one that you can relate to, you feel this connection to the author and you realize that other people feel the same way you do. Some of my favorites range from Horace to John Green to Galileo. It doesn't matter who said it, just what they said.

Horace - "Pulvis et umbra sumus" -We are shadows and dust

John Green in Will Grayson, Will Grayson - "...all the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all kindness is cruelty, all selfishness generous, all care callous."

Mark Twain - "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Galileo - "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

J. R. R. Tolkien in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - "'Not all those who wander are lost"

J. K. Rowling - "We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already; we have to power to imagine better."