Simon Van Booy Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Simon Van Booy
Simon Van Booy Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Succes is really nothing more than the record of failure. To be successful means you must be willing to fail more than anyone else.
He felt that his life was nothing more than a light that would blink once in the history of the universe and then be forgotten.
I suppose the key to a good life is to gently overlook the truth and hope that at any moment we can all be reborn.
When you give something up, you need to fill the space where it used to be, and you understand the landscape in yourself a bit more.
That's truth, Harvey, not what's written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see - but the memory of how it felt being together.
Every parent, no matter how cultured or sophisticated, will one day succumb to a child's pleas to visit Walt Disney World Resort.
To love again, you must not discard what has happened to you, but take from it the strength you'll need to carry on.
I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.
There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.
Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.
Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here.
universe, except that everyone else is still here.
The poet Emily Dickinson said that nature is a haunted house, while art is a house that tries to be haunted. She was born and died in the same room.
Daddy, where's panda?" Gerard finds her stuffed panda and lays it next to her. She goes back to sleep immediately. In
Never admit you have obsessive-compulsive disorder to someone who doesn't have it because they'll think you're crazy. But
Alzheimer's is like having your entire life written out in chalk and then washed over by the sea at every tide.
You may wonder why I haven't killed myself because living with madness or watching it flood the heart of someone we love is unbearable.
I tried to convey to the boy how people's lives are often altered by curved lines read slowly from paper, sand, or stone.
Writers are often alone when they work. Hours pass in silence as one long moment; light fades as day turns back to face the coming night.
I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and paper.
I think anyone can fall in love, if you're open and you're willing, but the real test is sustaining it after all the excitement has worn off.
It's tempting to imagine how we could hurt someone close, because it reminds us how fiercely we love them.
In the end I didn't know who I was crying for, but it was something my body wanted to do, as though trying to digest grief.
Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow him to drop the weight he'd so faithfully carried.
We touched with a softness that pushed through the skin into memory, like arms plunged into a river - we could feel the weight of each other's stones.
Should you ever feel too lonely ... listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.
I would give everything, even memory - especially memory - if I could hold Leo again. The weight of his absence is the weight of the entire world. I
I want to do things for people they will never forget. Maybe that's the best thing I can do in life.
For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.
Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.
Life had called his name, and without thinking, he had stepped forward. He wondered if perhaps he was becoming the person he had always wanted to be.
Libraries are the ultimate restaurants for brain food. I sleep better knowing there are libraries. I would take a bullet for a librarian.