Years Westover Quotes

#1. Over my pile of ashes

Stephenie Meyer

#2. Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#3. Do now what you wish to have done when your moment comes to die.

St. Angela Merici

#4. Philosophy isn't programmed into us, and a lot of the forces of our culture steadfastly work against it. Philosophy, for me, is a way of resisting the nihilism of the present by making, creating, affirming. By going on.

Simon Critchley

#5. We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.

Shirley Maclaine

#6. We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.

Stephen Covey

#7. There is only one way to learn," the alchemist answered. "It's through action.

Paulo Coelho

#8. When you have millions of dollars, you have millions of friends.

Floyd Patterson

#9. It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you're not making those challenges at home, it's unlikely you'll make them in a larger setting.

Carrie Mae Weems

#10. I wanted to high-five the fuck out of myself then do a victory dance. But I didn't, because, you know, manly.

L. H. Cosway

#11. At the end of all spiritual paths, there lies only a cold graveyard; the path of science is the only path that may give you something better than this!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

H.L. Mencken

#13. Hell is other people's fantasies ...

Salman Rushdie

#14. I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Vincent Van Gogh

#15. It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

Deepak Chopra