Gangsta's Paradise Quotes

#1. It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals.

Helen Fielding

#2. Right, I said, after an off-balance pause. A knocker, in the trade, was a shark who charmed his way into old people's homes: to cheat them of valuables

Donna Tartt

#3. She is not so secure on her throne that she can risk offending her people's gods. No woman can be.

Megan Whalen Turner

#4. Lee leaned closer to her and swore he could smell fear coming off her in waves, the way a shark smells blood in the water

Pamela K. Kinney

#5. I always had trouble distinguishing between what happened and what merely might have happened, but I remain unconvinced that the distinction, for my purposes, matters

Joan Didion

#6. Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception

Marcus Aurelius

#7. Life is just like a game,
First you have to learn rules of the game,
And then play it better then any one else.

Albert Einstein

#8. No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#9. Dear God, I surrender this situation to you. May it be used for your purposes. I ask only that my heart be open to give love and to receive love. May all the results unfold according to your will. Amen. Whatever you do, do it for God.

Marianne Williamson

#10. I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.

Chrissie Hynde

#11. There is no reason to suppose that the world had a beginning at all. The idea that things must have a beginning is really due to the poverty of our thoughts.

Bertrand Russell