Via In Wonder Quotes

#1. I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#2. Destiny is not preordained. Destiny is ordained totally by you. Every single moment of your NOW existence is the result of your previous thought. The idea that everything is already laid out for you in advance is a hallucination. You can and do manifest your own destiny.

Wayne Dyer

#3. He meticulously tries to get every hair in place. He tilts his head to look at himself from different angles, like there's some magic perspective in the mirror that could change the dimensions of his face'
-Olivia/Via thinking

R.J. Palacio

#4. I'm hoping that "South Of Wilshire" will help people to realize that these are places that they should patronize, not avoid.

Harvey Levin

#5. Were we really born in the best possible time and place? Or is ours a random moment in infinity
just another among uncountable moments, each with its compensating pleasures and disappointments?

Christopher Ryan

#6. We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

Henry Ward Beecher

#7. Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence ... Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually.

William Ellery Channing

#8. To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it whether you think you have it in you or not. Everyday. Alone. Without interruption. Contrary to what most people think, there is no glamour to writing. In fact, it's heartbreak most of the time.

Harper Lee

#9. [T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#10. You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.

Doris Lessing

#11. You're fooling yourself if you think I don't have those feelings for you, Tristan. I've fallen in love with you.

R.K. Lilley