Joaquin > Joaquin's Quotes

“Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say 'No, you move'.”
― J. Michael Straczynski

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Your hair is winter fire
January embers
My heart burns there, too.”
― Stephen King, It

“We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not
damned. We're just unfinished.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“They say they give their women more freedom, but there's still the impression that the freedom was theirs to 'give' in the first place.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Those people gave in to their pain because they couldn’t find purpose—their torture was meaningless, and when you can’t find reason in life, you tend to give up on it.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“The man had come looking for a magical solution to his woes, but he had found an answer much more simple. Pain lost its power when other things became more important. Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him—he just needed something to do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Just because you've had misfortune in your past doesn't mean you have to give up on your future.”
― Brandon Sanderson Elantris, Elantris

“You talk about hunger and pain as if they are forces which can't be resisted. Anything is acceptable, as long as the hunger made you do it-remove our comforts, and we become animals.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Pain lost its power when other things became more important”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“That's exactly the problem. Everyone's convinced that their lives are over just because their hearts stopped beating.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“As was often the case, the most outspoken man was the least discerning.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“You will be surprised how much more profitable an independent man is than a slave who thinks of nothing more than his next meal.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“No corras si solo tienes fuerzas para andar, y no pierdas el tiempo empujando puertas que no cederán”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“An existence of agony is better than no existence at all”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles."
"What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.”
― Unattributed

“I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.”
― Samwise Gamgee

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby