Cortigiani Belts Quotes

#1. I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

Peter Dinklage

#2. There can be no learning without action, and no action without learning

Reg Revans

#3. Wishes are just wishes. Destiny is just destiny. And neither really has control over your life. Shit happens, shapes our lives, but doesn't have to shape who we are.

Jessica Sorensen

#4. A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

Maria Montessori

#5. Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth. We blunder along, shredded by our mistakes, bludgeoned by our faults. Not having a clue where the dark path leads us. But on the whole, we stumble along bravely, don't you think?

Alice Walker

#6. In thinking back to when we had our big glitch, I remember seeing it get light outside the window. We were in the clouds; I'm pretty sure we got hit by lightning.

Pete Conrad

#7. When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.

Christopher Poole

#8. I raise my glass to the moon and drink it myself.
Life has never tasted sweeter.

Kami Garcia

#9. If life is a journey then let my soul travel and share your pain.

Santosh Kalwar

#10. Speak to yourself, for you are the only person who will truly understand.

Jennifer Nolan

#11. She hadn't known what love was, but she knew it now. Love was the fluttering in her tummy whenever Carmine was near, the twinkle in his eye when he laughed, the heat in her body from his words. Love was happy. Love was safe. Love was green. Love was him, the beautifully flawed boy who made her glow.

J.M. Darhower

#12. We think back through our mothers and grandmothers, if we are women.

Virginia Woolf

#13. Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. I don't know any fiction writers who live in average American households. I suspect Louise Erdrich might. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.

David Foster Wallace