chronicling life through quotes

There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.

For each new morning with its light,
For rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For everything Thy goodness sends.

Love has always had a plan for you. That doesn’t mean you get to know what it is.

Because it´s only when you´re tested that you truly discover who you are. And it´s only when you´re tested that you discover who you can be. The person that you want to be does exist, somewhere in the other side of hard work and faith, and belief and beyond the heartache and fear of what life has.

True love doesn’t happen right away; it’s an ever-growing process. It develops after you’ve gone through many ups and downs, when you’ve suffered together, cried together, laughed together.

There’s nothing scary about choice. Scary is when you don’t have choice.

Who you want to be is not nearly as important as who you are right now.

It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.

And the truth is, we’re just a bunch of kids, trying to figure out what true love really is.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment. Letting go of the past means you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one’s heart, to give vent to one’s feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self-satisfaction.